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only in God’s hand. He is the messenger and believers and
Owner of the Kingdom, and the any other kind of honor out of
only one who gives authority to the Divine Honor is just a
whomever He wants and takes humiliation in the image of
it away from whomever He honor and glory.
wants. In His hands is all virtue As for the second point, Allah
and He has the power over all describes Himself in the Holy
things. (Ref: Al-Imran, 26) Quran, that He does not need
Lord is )Al-Mouez) the Honor any guardian or helper to help
Giver and (Al-Moudhil) the Him in His need; Because of His
Humiliation Giver. Perfection, the Almighty God
Allameh Tabatabai believes has no humiliation in Him to
that the honor (Aleiz) is need any help or protection from
something hard to be reached anyone in positions of weakness
unlike humiliation (dhull) which and times of lack of power (Ref:
is easy to get and accessible. Al-Isra: 111) / (Hosseini
For example the honorable Tehrani, 2013, Vol. 3: 353;
man of a nation is hard to be Ibn Ajiba, 2009, Vol. 3: 244)
defeated and it is hard to get in On the other hand, Allah
terms of his position among his asked Believers to help Him,
people. Honor is only for God because if they help God, He
and essential property of will help them and make them
authority. (Tabatabai, 1997, steadfast in their faith. (Ref:
Vol. 3: 131) Muhammad: 7)
So, we can see that the Real Surely, helping God here
Honor in the Divine view is doesn’t mean that He needs a
only something connected with help, but those who will do
the Honor of Allah, His that, they seek God’s pleasure
