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**snunsebrugs** · 07-15-2012, 01:41 AM

Before the Internet and SMS and still now books are published with SWT, RA, SAW, SAWS, PBUH. But at the beginning they state for brevity we have used these abbreviations in the book. It's not just electronic messaging whether that be e-mails, message board posts or SMS texts.

But.... I've never seen it in books for Assalaamu 'alaikum or other greetings when you sign off. In that case just greeting "Salaam" or "Salaams" is wrong you should at least say "Assalaamu 'alaikum" or one of its two longer versions.

This is going to open a can of worms... same logic... 786 for Bismillah (and 92 for Muhammad) should never be used. But then 786 and 92 aren't intended to be abbreviations but "numerical equivalents" when you assign numbers to the Arabic alphabet. Whether 786 = Bismillah is Islamic is debatable but as far as I know there is nothing in the Qur'an or a single hadith to suggest this?

07-15-2012, 01:41 AM	#9
snunsebrugs Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 370 Senior Member	Before the Internet and SMS and still now books are published with SWT, RA, SAW, SAWS, PBUH. But at the beginning they state for brevity we have used these abbreviations in the book. It's not just electronic messaging whether that be e-mails, message board posts or SMS texts. But.... I've never seen it in books for Assalaamu 'alaikum or other greetings when you sign off. In that case just greeting "Salaam" or "Salaams" is wrong you should at least say "Assalaamu 'alaikum" or one of its two longer versions. This is going to open a can of worms... same logic... 786 for Bismillah (and 92 for Muhammad) should never be used. But then 786 and 92 aren't intended to be abbreviations but "numerical equivalents" when you assign numbers to the Arabic alphabet. Whether 786 = Bismillah is Islamic is debatable but as far as I know there is nothing in the Qur'an or a single hadith to suggest this?
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