Returning Salam With Intention To Please Someone
@Irfan76 so I guess it’s not an actual Dua, but it is actually saying like “I desire peace for you”? I understand sir that it’s a Sunnah to say this when meeting someone, but if an actual Dua just i don’t understand one thing regarding what should be the intention for it. because Dua is a worship ritual like namaz. if someone were to do the worship ritual of namaz to make someone else happy then we say it’s shirkiya behavior. but then shouldn’t it be the same for Dua as well? as dua is worship ritual that we do towards Allah, and doing it to make someone else happy, should logically, be shirkiya too. Then why is it okay to say Salam with intention to please someone? if the intention is to fulfill the Sunnah and please Allah then it’s understandable, but if the intention is to make someone else happy then how is it okay? can you clear my confusion sir?
It is a prayer asking peace for someone. Such Dua is made for the love and well wishing of a person he asks for peace. He can make this dua to please him and it is commendable.
@Irfan76 sir I’ll compare 2 situations with you please help me understood the principle. 1) from my understanding, as you mentioned that a worship ritual should only be performed to please Allah and directly Allah alone. with none else’s pleasure other than Allah. For example if someone prays namaz, the only acceptable way is that it is prayed directly for Allah’s pleasure. not of someone else. I mean if a person says that I pray namaz to please my friend, and since pleasing friend is a good deed, so I’m indirectly pleasing Allah, we would still say its inappropriate and Riya. similarly if someone were to make Dua to Allah directly, he cannot do that to please someone else. and he cannot say that it’s okay to do Dua to please someone else with this worship ritual because at the end of the day, pleasing someone is pleasing to Allah. he can’t do this and it would undermine sincerity if he does it. 2) But we see that Salam is also said to be a Dua (which is a worship ritual). so why is it that we see nothing wrong in having an intention of pleasing someone while saying salam, even if it’s primary intention is to please the person? For example a man wants to please his boss, as he thinks that earning boss’s pleasure can be a source of yearly increments and so he treats his boss with more than usual respect, bringing him sweets and other things. and also saying Salam when greeting, with intention to show respect and please his boss (and the goal behind pleasure of boss is worldly gains, not indirectly Allah). but here still we say there’s no problem. here in other words we treat Salam, not as a worship ritual ( as being a Dua) and more like a mundane good act (which can be done for any other intention totally as well, and it won’t be a sin). we treat Salam in this case not as Dua (worship ritual) here but primarily as a greeting phrase like “Welcome! Hello sir!” (which is a mundane good thing and can be done for any other intention as well, even without intention of Allah). can you please explain me that, is Salam when being said, is it primarily a Dua? or primarily a Greeting phrase?
@Irfan76 so sir is Dua a ritual only for Allah or does it belong to other category?