al-Ṣaffāt

سَلاَمٌ عَلَي إِلْ يَاسِينَ

إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُـحْسِنِينَ

إِنَّهُ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

130. “Peace be on ’Ilyasin (Elyas).”

131. “Verily thus do We reward the doers of good.”

132. “Verily he was (one) of Our faithful servants.”

We must learn from Allah (s.w.t.) how to greet to Divine prophets, the great friends of Allah. This verse says:

The application of the term ’Ilyasin instead of Elyas is either for the sake that ’Ilyasin was a word inside the term Elyas and both of them have the same meaning; or it refers to Elyas and his followers which has been used in this total form.

Here the purpose of righteousness and kindness is in their vast meaning which envelops both performing all His laws and commandments and then struggling against any kind of polytheism, deviation, sin and mischief. And in the third verse it refers to the main root of all of these things which is faith. Concerning Elyas, it says:

Faith and servitude is the origin of kindness, and kindness causes that one may be involved in the row of the sincere ones and be addressed with the greeting of Allah.