Muslim Greetings
I’ve finally managed to get in contact with a local Imam! I’ll be meeting him next week to start working my way through the questions which arose from my reading of the first half of the Qur’an.
In preparation for meeting the Imam, I researched the appropriate Arabic greeting to give a Muslim. It turns out that, if you’re not Muslim yourself, the greeting which should given is:
“Assalamu alaykum”
Phonetically, this is pronounced:
“ass-sa-laam-muu ah-lay-kum”
…and means:
“Peace upon you”
The response to this is:
“Wa alaykuma asalaam”
..which is pronounced:
“wa ah-lay-kum as-sa-laam”
…which means:
“And peace upon you”
Here’s a video where you can hear these phrases pronounced: