Salam Alikum True Meaning - According to Ibn Uthaymeen

Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen (rahimullah) said: "And 'As-Salaam' means a supplication of safety from every affliction or harm. So if you say to an individual 'As-Salaamu alaika' then this means you are supplicating for him; that Allah protects him from every affliction or harm.

(Meaning) That He protects him from sickness, from insanity, from the evil of people, from disobedience (of Allaah), from sicknesses of the heart, from the hell-fire, etc. This (as-Salaam) is a general wording which means: a supplication for the muslim that he is safe and protected from every affliction or harm.

Sharh Riyaadhi as-Saaliheen v.4 pg 380

The Meaning of The Name of Allah As-Salam

قَالَ تَعَالَى
هُوَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْمَلِكُ الْقُدُّوسُ السَّلَامُ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْمُهَيْمِنُ الْعَزِيزُ الْجَبَّارُ الْمُتَكَبِّرُ ۚ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ

He is Allah than Whom there is La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He) the King, the Holy, the One Free from all defects, the Giver of security, the Watcher over His creatures, the All-Mighty, the Compeller, the Supreme. Glory be to Allah! (High is He) above all that they associate as partners with Him.

[Al Hashr : Verse 23]

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