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paradise until you believe, and you shall not believe
until you love one another. Shall I not inform you of
something, if you were to act upon it, you will
indeed achieve mutual love for one another? Spread
sala>m amongst yourselves.’
(225)
‘Amma>r
said: ‘Three characteristics, whoever
combines them, has completed his faith: to be
sincerely just, to spread greetings to all people and
to spend [charitably] out of the little you have.’
(226)
‘Abdulla>h Ibn ‘Amr
reported that a man asked
the Prophet
: ‘Which Isla>m is the best?’. He
replied: Feed [the poor], and greet those whom you
know as well as those whom you do not.’
109. Returning a greeting to a ka>fir
(227)
‘When the people of the Book greet you, reply by
saying:
.
‘And upon you.’