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RESPECT
To
honor and to respect others. It is to display obedience
and humility of a Muslim towards Muslims who are more informed
and talented than him.
When the feeling of
respect disappears among the individuals of family and society;
conflict, quarrel, opposition and as a result of them grudge
and enmity replace it. Because respect and enmity can not
be together.
Because in social life
as the elder people for younger ones, savants for ignorant,
employers for workers, in general those who have higher
rank become a good example for others and because the people
of lower status ask help from them time to time, they shouldn’t
fail to respect them. This is important for a person to
become successful and to be promoted with the help from
the people of higher status.
What brings inconsiderateness
to the person? If the person to whom you behave disrespectfully
is an elder one who has a rank and position, he will lose
the attention to you. If the person is the same age of you
then he will also treat you inconsiderately. Or if the other
one is a younger and weak person this time he will lose
his determination and makes him hopeless. All of them are
harmful and evil things. It’s not seen that the people,
who acquire as habit to be respectful-respect towards elder,
love for the younger- suffer harm or fall from esteem because
of this. On the contrary it is known that the many haughty
people who neglect the rules of respect without considering
elder or younger get into trouble because of their own pride
and have no value before people. (1)
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(1) Description of Ethics, A Rifat.
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