Greeting fellow muslims

[Zahra]

Ok this a minor issue but here goes! Assalamu Alaikum is what one should greet a fellow muslim with and walaikum asalam is the reply. But when one wishes to say bye, why is the word 'khudhafiz' used? I'm just intrigued as to what khudhafiz means, does it have pak-indo origins? Also 'allah hafiz' is being used more commonly now instead of 'khudhafiz', what's the diffference? I don't know maybe pakistanis are picking up on 'allah hafiz' from their drama serials lol!

[Mustafa]

Wa alaikum as salaam

In Saudi we say 'ma salaama' or just say 'as salaam alaikum/ wa alaikum as salaam' all over again.

I was told that 'khudhafiz' is derived from the Persian for 'God protect you' and so people changed it to Allah protect you (I don't know how true this is, though.)

Ma salaam & Allah hafiz
Your brother in Islam

[UmmIbrahimIsa]

assalamu alaikum wr wb

i think that's it.... a lot of indo/pak use that word more than 'assalamu alaikum' which means peace be to you, usually they end up saying what they learned in their own country, 'khuda hafiz' or 'allah hafiz' ta ta....bub- bye...

Allahu Alim as to why they prefer that over the salam greetings when with the salam greetings you are rewarded more as its nicer yet ppl prefer to use their own thing within their own country. Like some people despite you greet them with salams still will reply back to you with a 'hi' or 'hello' and if you ask how they are doing, they will say im fine... how are you? and if you say im good alhamdulillah.. and if you sneeze they'll say god bless you instead of yarhamakullah.
It's different things they say according to how they were raised or where they were raised, as it would be better they say the salams greeting cuz that's how muslims are identified as, they might get highly offended and get defensive if you end up pointing out to them that their way is not islamic and this way is... better thing to do is say they get more reward that way with salams and how its recorded on their shoulder for that, rather than a hi, hello, uhuh.... and a bye, bub-bye, see ya wouldn't want to be ya, see ya later alligator, in awhile crocodile... khuda and Allah hafiz.

Just let them know that despite its ok to use these stuff above its better to use Assalamu alaikum warahmatulaahi warabarakaatuhu, and walaikum assalam warahmatulaahi warabarakaatuh.
cuz you are giving them peace and mercy onto them.

[Muawiyah]

poeple are dropping khuda-hafiz because of modernist propoganda against "khuda" which means the same as Maalik. I heard an 'aalim say that people should keep saying "khuda hafiz" just to oppose the pervaizis.

[Saleel]

My father once told me "Khuda Hafiz" / "Allah Haffiz" is the equivalent of "fee amanillah".

Allahu Alam.

[Zahra]

Cool...another thing, someone told me that 'shab-a-khair' actually means good morning and not good evening! Is that true?

[Saleel]

Cool...another thing, someone told me that 'shab-a-khair' actually means good morning and not good evening! Is that true?

Saba'a Al-Khair = Good morning
Masa'a Al-Khair = Good evening (also sometimes used as good afternoon)

Wallahu Alam.

[A D I D A S]

Thats kool. Bro Saleel knows arabic.
Yep khudahafiz means fi amanillah. For those who dont know the arabic dua its ok for them to use.