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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Mikyalul Makarim Fee Fawaaid ad-Duaa Lil Qai’m vol. 1 Reward Of Honoring And Respecting One Who Is Higher In Status ================================================================= The rewards and benefits of respecting and honoring the greater one will be there for him due to this Dua . Here we shall have to discuss and investigate a number of points: First: About the rewards and benefits of paying respect.

Second: Meaning of respecting Third: About the types of paying respect and how it is obtained by praying for the seal of the successors and Imams (aj). First Topic: Rewards And Benefits Of Paying Respect What I have obtained from labor of research are six benefits. Perhaps someone may study more about it and derive more points from traditional reports. The six benefits that I have collected are as follows: 1.

Glorifying Allah, The Mighty And The High In Kafi in a near-authentic report, it is mentioned from His Eminence, Abu Abdillah Sadiq (as) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (S) said: “Among the ways of paying respect to Allah is honoring aged Muslims.”[^1] In Wasailush Shia, through a correct chain of narrators it is narrated from His Eminence that he said: “Among the ways of paying respect to God is according respect to aged people.”[^2] It is narrated from the same Imam that he said: “Among the types of paying respect to Allah, the Mighty and Sublime is respecting the believers who are advanced in age, and one who honors a believer has respected the Almighty Allah and one who considers a believer lowly the Almighty Allah would send to him someone before his death who would consider him lowly.”[^3] In that book it is narrated from the Messenger of Allah (S) that he said: “Among the ways of honoring the Almighty Allah is to accord respect to a believer who is senior in age.”[^4] In another tradition through Sunni channels from the Messenger of Allah (S) it is narrated that he said: “Obey those senior in age as among the ways of honoring the Almighty Allah is respect of aged people.”[^5] I say: Since the nobility and greatness of Islam is higher than all nobilities and greatnesses, those who have more precedence in it, their honor and respect is worthier in the view of Allah.

And there is no doubt that their honor is equal to honoring and respecting Allah, the Mighty and Sublime because they have precedence in worship and obedience. 2.