IMPORTANCE OF GREETING SALAM

When two Muslim meet whether they are children, women or men  they greet each other. It’s written in hadith that a man came to our prophet (s) and said peace be upon him. Then he sat down. The Prophet (s) returned his greetings and said ten. Another person came and said peace on him. The Prophet (s) said twenty. Another person came and said peace, mercy and blessings of ALLAH on him and the Prophet (s) said thirty.

  This shows that when the first man greeted Prophet(s) and sent peace be upon him, he got ten virtues from ALLAH. The second person came and sent peace and mercy upon him and got twenty virtues from ALLAH. The third person came and sent peace, mercy and blessings upon him and got thirty virtues from ALLAH.

“Allah, the Sovereign, the Most Holy, the Peace, prescribed that the greeting among the people of Islam should be ‘ASSALAM O ALAIKUM’, which is better than all the greetings of other nations which include impossible ideas or lies, such as saying, ‘May you live for a thousand years, narrated from ‘Abdul-Allah ibn ‘Umar that a man asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): “What is the best thing in Islam?” He said, “Feeding others and giving the greeting of salaam to those whom you know and those whom you do not know.”

Its up to ALLAH whether he will gives the other person peace, mercy and Blessings or not, but its true that, he will give it to the person who greeted first. who greets first is nearest to ALLAH.