What is the ruling on the immediacy of responding to greetings sent to you via WhatsApp, especially when the sender expects a reply to initiate another topic while you are busy?
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Khamenei (may God protect him): (A Contemporary Issue)
It is not obligatory to respond to greetings except in face-to-face encounters and similar communications such as phone calls or conversations through a veil.
Source: Special Inquiry.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sistani (may God protect him):
It is not obligatory to respond to greetings received in a message.
Source: The Legal Office of His Eminence Sayyid Sistani, may his shadow endure – Lebanon.
May you be successful in all good.