Salam and Handshake — Permissible & Prohibited
- How to give salam and how to reply
- “My respects” and similar words instead of salam
- Adding to “as-salamu ʿalaykum”
- Who should give salam to whom?
- Salam is the duty of the one who arrives
- If two people give salam simultaneously, who must reply?
- Gesturing with the hand for salam
- Raising the hand when giving salam
- The wronged person should return the salam of the wrongdoer
- Greeting one’s wife with salam or writing it to her
- Salam to those performing wudu
- Salam to one who is praying
- Greeting one who is eating with salam
- Salam to one whose knees are uncovered
- Salam during the adhan and replying to it
- Replying to salam while drying after istinja with a clod
- Returning a salam while drying after istinja
- Giving salam when entering and leaving the mosque
- Salam when entering the mosque
- Replying to the salam of an absent person
- The period of abandoning salam due to displeasure
- An amrad giving salam
- Replying to an amrad’s salam while feeling desire
- Giving salam to a non-mahram
- Prostration of recitation and returning the salam heard on the radio or a tape recorder
- Joining palm to palm in a handshake
- Shaking hands along with the salam
- Shaking hands with two hands
- The handshake (musafaha)
- Shaking hands by compulsion
- Shaking hands with a non-Muslim
- Shaking hands and embracing with a kafir and a fasiq
- Shaking hands with mahram women
- Standing up out of respect for venerable elders
- The manner of embracing (mu‘anaqa)
- Embracing little girls
- Standing up and kissing for a guest
- Receiving the President of the Republic
- Kissing the hands and the feet
- Kissing a beardless youth (amrad) without desire
- Kissing the hands and feet of scholars
- Kissing the hands and feet of revered elders
- Receiving elders’ prayers by holding their feet
- Kissing the feet of one’s parents
- Touching one’s mother’s feet out of reverence
- Kissing the feet of one’s spiritual guide or parents
- Kissing the feet of a spiritual guide
- Kissing the grave of one’s parents or teacher
- Passing the hand over the feet of elders as a greeting
- Replying to the salam of a kafir
- Replying to the greeting of a kafir
- A greeting sent by a kafir
- Replying to the greeting of a non-Muslim
- Replying to the salam of a Qadiani, and his invitation to a meal
- Greeting a non-Muslim and a fasiq first; “My respects”, “namaste”; the words with which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ greeted the kafirs
- Replying to the greeting of a non-Muslim
- Greeting card players with salam
- Not returning someone’s salam by calling him a hypocrite
- The manner of reciting salat and salam
- Reciting the salawat again is not makruh
- Using the word “huzur”
- The word “sayyiduna” in the salawat
- A practice for love of the Prophet ﷺ
- Fixing a time and encouraging blessings on the Prophet after ʿAsr on Friday
- The words “Nabi Karim” and blessings upon hearing them
- Who is meant by “Al” (the family) in the blessings on the Prophet
- Who is meant by the “Al” (family) of the Messenger
- Blessings upon hearing the blessed name of the Prophet ﷺ
- Reciting blessings upon hearing the blessed name of the Prophet ﷺ on the radio
- Reciting blessings and salam at the blessed Rawda after ʿIsha
- Reciting salawat upon reading or hearing the blessed name, and making it up
- Blessings and peace upon any prophet
- A non-Muslim reciting salawat
- Using “‘alayhi al-salam” and the title “Imam”
- “‘Alayhi al-salam,” taraddi and tarahhum
- An objection to the fatwa on saying “ʿalayhi al-salam” of Sayyiduna Husayn ﵁, and the reply
- “ʿAlayhi al-salam” for Husayn ﵁, cursing Muʿawiya ﵁, and the question of Yazid
- Using “ʿalayhi al-salam” and “radiya Allahu ʿanhu”
- Using “ʿalayhi al-salam” for the Ahl al-Bayt
- Saying “radiya Allahu ʿanhu” and “nawwara Allahu marqadahu” for a fasiq and a sinner
- Using “ʿalayhi al-salam” and “radiya Allahu ʿanhu” for Yazid
- Saying “ʿalayhima al-salatu wa al-salam” for Hazrat Hasan and Husayn ﵄
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