In Arabic these salutations are called salawāt, and are abbreviated by some with the use of SAW (in accordance with the Arabic words sallallahou alayhi wasallam) or PBUH (which stands for Peace be upon him in English). However, this practice is considered to be controversial among senior Islamic scholars who disagree with this use on the basis that it demonstrates a lack of respect and laziness. The phrase is also encoded as a ligature at Unicode codepoint U+FDFA ﷺ.