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Mujtahid Name Aayat-ul-Allah Seestani 
Question Aslam-o-alaikum, if someone enters in the house and says aslam-o-alaikum, and you are offering your prayer, can you reply to him during namaz? 
Answer A person offering prayers should not greet anyone with Salam, and if another person says Salam to him, he should use the same words in reply without adding anything to it. For example, if someone says Salamun alaykum, he should also say Salamun alaykum in reply, without adding Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. As an obligatory precaution, he should not utter Alaykum or Alayka before the word Salamun if the one who greeted him did not say so. In fact, the recommended precaution is that the reciprocation must fully conform with the way Salam was initiated. So if he said: Salamun alaykum, the reply should be Salamun alaykum, and if he said: As-Salamu alaykum, then the reply should be the same. Similarly, the reply to Salamum alayka will be Salamun alayka. But if someone initiated Salam saying Alaykumus Salam, then the answer can be given in any of the phrases. (Ref : E mail rec from ayat ullaha sistani d.b. dated : February 03, 2011 ) (Khuda aap ki tawfiqaat mein izafa farmaye)  

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