NOT salam alaikum BUT assalamualaikum

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to all beloved friends.

 spread the greeting of peace

For today's entry, i am glad to share with you something that we always say in our daily. It is about SALAM that some of us wrongly use it. Oh, firstly don't forget to reply my salam :)

Basically, Salam is a greeting that people give to other to create a sense of love between muslim, generally by saying assalamualaikum.

But, some of us vary this greeting by saying salam alaikum.  The way people should greet others that prophet s.a.w teach us is either by saying :

- Assalamualaikum
or
- Salamun alaikum (there is difference between salamun and salam)

For your information, there are arguments among ulama' about the preference of using between both of the greetings. But clearly they are used in alquran and hadith.

So, there is no salam alaikum but salamun alaikum or asaalamualaikum.

We just need to add AS on SALAM to make the greeting correct :). Very simple right?

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For your reference:

 ( وَالْمَلائِكَةُ يَدْخُلُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ كُلِّ بَابٍ سَلامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ بِمَا صَبَرْتُمْ فَنِعْمَ عُقْبَى الدَّارِ) الرعد/23، 24 ) 

وقال النووي في "الأذكار )

" اعلم أن الأفضل أن يقول المُسَلِّم : السَّلامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ ، فيأتي بضمير الجمع وإن كان المسلَّم عليه واحداً ، ويقولُ المجيب : وَعَلَيْكُمُ السَّلامُ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَركاتُه