Q: I live in India. In my locality most of the people are non-Muslim and I want to know if it is okay to take them as close friends and participate in their religious gatherings or festivities and alike?
Very few greet by saying Namaste how to reply to it?
Q:
1. What is a faasiq?
2. Can you greet a person that is a faasiq?
3. Can you eat from an animal that is slaughtered by a faasiq?
Q: If someone in the WhatsApp group makes salaam, does everyone in the group have to reply or if one person replys its okay?
Q: Is a person allowed to make salaam with his hands with his mother in law?
Q: If someone in the group makes salaam, does everyone have to reply or if one person reply's is it sufficient?
Q: Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) instructed us Muslims to give salaams to those whom we know and those whom we don't know (among the Muslims). How will we know the individuals we are giving salaam to are Muslims or not since we don't know them? Do we just assume that they are Muslims by looking at their clothing, their professions (halaal butcher) or any signs that would be hint of their faith or do we just ask them before giving them salaam?
Q: I teach reverts and very often when we teach them the hadith on salaam they tell us that they very so often don't receive replies to their salaam from our Indian Muslims. They went to the extent of asking that should we rather not make salaam to them to save them from the sin of not replying. Please advise.
Q: What is the ruling on greeting people every Friday with Jumuah Mubarak? Is it permissible?
I understand that it was not part of the sunnah of our Nabi Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) and his companions never practised it.
Q: If someone gave salaam and one replied and they didn’t hear the reply or one did not reply, would the person later on have to walk up to the person and reply?
Q: Whilst my father was abroad, if he asked me to give salaam to the congregants at the masjid and I said I would Insha’Allah thinking that I would approach the Imam to tell everyone but I didn’t do so and my father asked me more than once and I didn’t do so on any occasion, as my father is back now, what would I do?