{"id":6668,"date":"2018-12-11T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:24:20","slug":"saying-salam-to-the-opposite-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=6668","title":{"rendered":"Saying Salam to the Opposite Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u0628\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u064a\u0645<\/span><\/p>\n

Abu Huraira \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647 narrates that the Messenger of Allah (\ufdfa) said, “A believer owes another believer five rights.” The first right mentioned was ‘responding to salam.’[1]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The scholars state that it is compulsory to reply to salam. However, certain cases are exempted from this obligation due other nusoos<\/em> (textual evidences) of Shariah.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the issue of a woman saying salam<\/em> or replying to a man and vice versa, the muhaddith<\/em> and faqeeh<\/em>, Mulla Ali Qari quotes Imam Nawawi as saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs for [the case of] a woman with a man, so if she is his wife, his slave girl or a mahram<\/em> to him then she is like a man to him [in ruling].<\/span><\/p>\n

But if she is a stranger [non-mahram<\/em>] to him, [then it is either of two cases,] if she is beautiful [or young][2]<\/a> with whom fitna<\/em> is feared, then the man would not say salam<\/em> to her, but if he does say salam<\/em>, it is not permissible for her to reply. <\/span><\/p>\n

A woman should not say salam<\/em> to a strange man. But if she says salam<\/em> to him, she does not deserve a reply. If he replies to her salam<\/em> he would have done something reprehensible.<\/span><\/p>\n

[The second case is] if she is an old woman with whom fitna<\/em> is not feared,[3]<\/a> it is permissible for her to say salam<\/em> to a man and it would be necessary on him to reply to the salam<\/em>.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Since this is the law regarding salam<\/em> and its reply, which is a right of a Muslim in normal circumstances what would be the ruling of the unnecessary everyday conversations with non-mahram<\/em> men and women in work places, schools, universities and other social gatherings?<\/span><\/p>\n

And Allah knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Bukhari #1240, Muslim #1704<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Imam Nawawi used the word \u0634\u0627\u0628\u0629 \u2018young girl\u2019 in Sharh Saheeh Muslim Vol.14 Pg.149<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> In Sharh Saheeh Muslim, Imam Nawawi says that if the old woman is attractive , then salam should not be said to her nor the reply given. Vol.14 Pg.149<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Mirqatul Mafateeh Vol.8 Pg.459<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But if she is a stranger [non-mahram] to him, [then it is either of two cases,] if she is beautiful [or young][2] and fitna is feared, then the man would not say salam to her,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,38,55,56,62,19,76],"tags":[187,296],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daughter","category-etiquettes-sunan-wa-aadaab","category-modesty","category-mother","category-pious-women","category-sharhul-hadith","category-wife","tag-hijab","tag-sister","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-38-id","wpcat-55-id","wpcat-56-id","wpcat-62-id","wpcat-19-id","wpcat-76-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}