In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate
"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You"
Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with
Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah
guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one
can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness
that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.
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Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah
As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu
What is the view regarding the greeting "Khuda Hafiz"
which is said by many muslims upon departing?
- with inputs by Adil & Imran.
[A]: As for 'Khuda Hafiz' - then as we muslims do not see it permissible to
say, because:
1) The word 'khuda' (God) is used in Persian to be a name of a particular idol;
they worship even presently in Iran and other places.
Even Hindu's refer to thier idols as 'khuda'.
And when you say Hafiz (protect) with it, you mean May Hafiz (the Persian/Hindu
idol) protect you.
This is from one angle.
2) From another angle,
at the least if the above is not accepted, (which is the case from some who may
argue that: "we don't know of any Persian/Hindu idol called Khuda and we take
the literal meaning, God" etc.) then it is a Bidah because:
a) This was not mentioned by the prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) or the
Sahaabah, they did not do this, nor did the Messengers (alayhi sallam) leave us
without a saying for greeting / parting.
It is authentically reported from many Hadeeth, that the messenger (sallallaahu
alayhi wa sallam) told us to say "assalaamu alaikum wa rahma" to the end.
1. From Quraan
When you are greeted with a greeting, greet in return with what is better than
it, or (at least) return it equally. Certainly, Allah is Ever a Careful Account
Taker of all things.
(An-Nisa 4:86)
2. From Hadeeth
Narrated Aboo Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him): The Prophet (peace be
upon him) said,
Allah created Adam, making him 60 cubits tall. When He created him, He said to
him, Go and greet that group of angels, and listen to their reply, for it will
be your greeting (salutation) and the greeting (salutations) of your
offspring. So, Adam said (to the angels), As-Salamu Alaikum (i.e. Peace be
upon you). The angels said, "As-salamu Alaika wa Rahmatu-l-lahi" (i.e. Peace
and Allah's Mercy be upon you). Thus the angels added to Adam's salutation the
expression, 'Wa Rahmatu-l-lahi,' Any person who will enter Paradise will
resemble Adam (in appearance and figure). People have been decreasing in
stature since Adam's creation.
[(Agreed Upon); Saheeh Bukhaari, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 543; Saheeh Muslim,
Book 040, Number 6809]
So why do we see fit to abandon the Sunnah for the Bidah (innovation) when the
Salaf use to say,"No Sunnah is abandoned except a Bidah appears to replace it"
b) Also the prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) saidthat every Bidah is a
leading astray, and every leading astray will lead to the fire.
[Reported by Aboo Daawood, Tirmidhee and others, no. 2549 in Saheehul-Jaami]
So this Hadeeth shows that a Bidah will start small then end up becoming big
(by being a sending astray first - then progressing to put one in the fire...).
So now look, those who accepted the explanation in (1) above then changed to
saying "Allaah Hafiz" which is not shirk in speech, but now an innovation which
people will find hard to reject, so by that the Bidah has become more anchored
and thus progressing to put us in the fire.
http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112141
Namaste/Namaskar
Nama" means bow, "as" means I, and "te" means you.
Therefore, Namaste literally means "bow me you" or "I bow to you."
In yoga, namaste is said to mean " I am your humble servant"
http://www.yogajournal.com/basics/822
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste
I had recently seen on peace tv , a question was askd to zakir naik regarding
'what should we respond when a non-muslim says 'namaste' or we call to
non-muslim ?
He replied : Namaste means - i bow to you.
And all muslims ONLY BOW TO ALLAH swt and no one else.
Hence if a non-muslim calls me and says 'namaste' , i reply to him 'walekum
as-salaam' (May God bless you and be pleased with you) or simply say 'Hello'
When a muslim calls a non-muslim first, start by saying - 'Hello' or
One can use other greetings like 'Good Morning/Evening'.
Salaam Walekum
Adil Khan
ps:
Apology to all my readers:
this is reg my last mail 'DUA FOR STUDENTS'
although i had mentioned in that mail itself as footnoteps: all the above
mentioned dua's and links are reporduced from duas.org website.
Authenticity of each dua is not know by me.
But as few persons pointed out to me that, 'duas.org' is a Shia website.
Had I knew it , I would not have forwarded any.
You can delete that email as authenticity of the dua's is not given.
Inshallah in future will be more careful .
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