The ruling on standing up out of respect for a person
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, is standing up out of respect for a person considered a form of exaltation that leads to shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
Standing up to humiliate a person or to exalt him is forbidden, but it does not reach the level of shirk; however, it is a forbidden act. As for standing up to greet him, or to help him with something, or to help him dismount, there is nothing wrong with that. But standing up merely out of respect for him alone is not permissible.Sunan Abi Dawud 5229Sahih (Al-Albani) The date palm. So say to the Prophet, peace be upon him, or regarding his custom, he said, peace and blessings be upon him, when Sa'd ibn Mu'adh came on the mule, or was it the horse? First he said, meaning, stand up to dismount him, meaning, stand up to dismount the rider. So standing up to help him or to greet him is fine, but standing up merely out of respect is not permissible.
Honorable Shaykh, is standing up out of respect for a person considered a form of exaltation that leads to shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
Standing up to humiliate a person or to exalt him is forbidden, but it does not reach the level of shirk; however, it is a forbidden act. As for standing up to greet him, or to help him with something, or to help him dismount, there is nothing wrong with that. But standing up merely out of respect for him alone is not permissible.
Let him who likes people to stand up before him prepare his place in
مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَمْثُلَ لَهُ الرِّجَالُ قِيَامًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَRise to your master.
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