Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Can You Withhold Salām to Discourage Someone from Sinning?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Can You Withhold Salām to Discourage Someone from Sinning?
English:
Question #1068:
Is it permissible not to respond to the greeting of someone who commits evil as a way of stopping and discouraging him?
Answer #1068:
According to Islamic law it is obligatory to respond to the salām of a Muslim, but if refusing to respond to someone’s salām with the intention of forbidding evil is normally interpreted by common view as prevention and discouraging the evil, it is permissible to do so.