{"id":1829,"date":"2007-05-26T03:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:51:33","slug":"islamic-greeting-for-a-wrong-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/islamic-greeting-for-a-wrong-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Greeting For A Wrong Number"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a man named Mohammed who had the phone number I have now. <\/p>\n

From time to time, we’ll get phone calls for him.<\/p>\n

Lately, a woman has been calling us. I’m not sure if she is calling for him, or just dialing for someone with a similar number to ours.<\/p>\n

Whenever she calls, since hers is a voice I don’t recognize, I automatically just say, “You have the wrong number.” I haven’t understood what she is saying — she was not asking for a person’s name. <\/p>\n

Tonight, however, I think I understood.<\/p>\n

She was saying, As-Sal\u0101mu `Alaykum<\/a>. A common translation of this phrase is, “Peace be upon you.” Now, if I answered the phone, and the first thing someone said to me in English was “Peace be upon you,” I don’t know that I would so abruptly say they had the wrong number. I’d be kind of thrown off a bit. In my mind, that’s a powerful and loving thing to say to someone, especially a stranger.<\/p>\n

According to the Wikipedia article I link to above:<\/p>\n

“The traditional response is “wa `Alaykum As-Sal\u0101m”, meaning “and on you be peace.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Should I practice the pronunciation of this response?<\/p>\n

I don’t know… I found a website, How to Greet Non-Muslims?<\/a> which says that “As-Sal\u0101mu `Alaykum” should not be used as a greeting for non-Muslims. Is this website definitive? Is the exchange of these greetings between a Muslim and a non-Muslim seen as an egregious affront to Islam by a large group of Muslims? A small group of Muslims? Any?<\/p>\n

Can I wish peace upon someone who wishes peace onto me?<\/p>\n

What do I say?<\/p>\n

Wrong number?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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