SELAM - RIJEČ MIRA
SALAM - THE WORD OF PEACE

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the importance of greeting as an initial social contact, in order to create positive, mutually pleasing, friendly communication, but also gives a brief overview of the word "salam" and its meaning through the Qur'an, in order to learn, from the basic source of Islam, what the true peace is, how it is achieved and what are the meanings of an Islamic salutation. At the beginning, the word "peace" is defined in Bosnian and Arabic. After that, words from the Qur'an that contain the root "s l m" are quoted, and the word "salam" is underlined. Paper represents a kind of journey through Qur'anic verses - it stops at each word "salam" to see in what context it is used and what message theat treasury of found verses carries for us. Ibn Kesir's tafsir was used to briefly explain these verses. The personal review of the author, including its own understanding of the mentioned verses and offering their interpretation. Regarding the word "salam" in the hadiths of the Prophet, peace be upon him, in the paper it is stated several guidelines on this topic from Tirmidhi's collection of hadiths.

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