Authentic honor or the love of Agape is steadfast obedience to authentic
authority. Islamic adab requires valor, wisdom, knowledge, will and the
incomparable ability to execute such definitions with faithful implementation
in due season and without deference to liars. Likewise, persons who are
faithful to the holy pledge of marriage are indeed honorable in part, for
fidelity is one aspect of honor‘s fruit but is not the source of honor because
honor – as herein defined – proceeds as grace from God and is only borne by
the tawhid of an eternal but internalized dignity; a human characteristic that
Islam holds inviolable.
There is no mistaking the presence of matured dignity on two of the
countenances below and which courtliness reflects two different metaphysical
species of men. Dignity is imparted by God‘s Will to His chosen vessels of
grace (covenant) and cannot proceed out of fragile human traditions subject
to pontifical decrees, and neither can the honorable virtues be earned as these
are divinely sown and cultivated by the servants of Allah SWT.
Pope and Black Pope (Jesuit General) Omar Mukhtar Abd. El_Kader
Honor is the revered dignitas that actually marks a man’s or woman’s homage
to the Word of God because its grace is literally etched in his/her face as they
mature. Misguidance and sin, quite to the contrary, affect the opposite so
that such elders appear childish rather than regal. It is, therefore, a
manifestation of humble obedience to God‘s dominion because it manifests
the adab that accompanies fitrah and akhirah. Men are only gardeners who
watch over its tree but know not how the seed progresses to reproductive
maturity. The preservation of this same dignity in marriage is what preserves
the integrity of affectionate and erotic love and even peace in the divorce of
incompatible mates! Honor has everything to do with authentic governance