Greeting with peace (salam)

Among the senses of taslim in the language is conveying; taslim is the salam: the worshipper's taslim ends his prayer with "al-salamu 'alaykum," and one who sallama 'ala a people greets them with the salam, saying "salam 'alayk." The jurists' usage does not depart from these senses. ²

The Sheikh says that greeting on meeting is one of a Muslim's rights over his brother, speaks of people who stop greeting relatives over a quarrel, and urges that greetings be spread. ^{3 4}

The Sheikh says he grieves for one who breaks off the prayer, because the worshipper says in it a greeting of peace upon God's righteous servants; he then counts the reward as merchants count accounts: thirty good deeds for the greeting (needs_source) ⁵.

He says that returning the fuller greeting with the addition "and the mercy of God" earns forty good deeds, that beginning the greeting is a Sunna and returning it an obligation, and that the reward multiplies with the number of people greeted, say a thousand, or ten thousand at a conference (needs_source) ⁶.

He urges that the greeting come from the heart and not only from the mouth, for it is the heart that gives the greeting, and he recalls God's command to repel an offence with what is better, so that with someone between whom and you there is enmity things change ⁷.