Show honor to your Elders

All praise is for Allah. We praise Him and seek His help and His forgiveness and we believe in Him and rely on Him. We seek rehge with Allah from the evils of our selves and the vices of our deeds. There is no one to misguide whom Allah guides and there is no one to guide whom Allah lets go astray. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah Alone. He has no partner. I also bear witness that our authority, our Prophet and our Master, Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. May Allah have mercy on him, his household and on his Companions and bless them and send p.eace on them in great abundance. "When a respectable man of a people comes to you, -you should honour him". That is, if the chief of a people or one well placed with them, comes to you, you must respect him.

One way to show respect 

Of course, shari'ah has asked us honour every Muslim. When a Muslim brother comes to you, you must honour and respect him. A hadith tells us that if we are sitting somewhere and a Muslim comes to meet us, the least we should do is move a little bit for him We must not sit motionless like a statue, for that is not a way to honour him. The visitor must feel that he is respected and honored.
TO STAND UP One method of showing honour to someone is to stand up for him. The instructions of shari'ah in this regard are that if the visitor expects other people to stand up for him then we must not stand up because his desire indicates that he is arrogant and thinks that he is arrogant and thinks little of other people. However, if the visitor does not expect anyone to stand up for him then there is no harm to stand up to honour such a man for his knowledge, piety or the high office he holds. It is neither a sin to stand up nor necessary to do so.
HADITH CONFIRMS THE STANDING UP The Prophet & instructed his companions (Raziaalah taala anhu),on some occasions that they should stand up. Accordingly, when sa'd bin Muaz a &I dj arrived to judge the case of the Banu Qurayzah, the prophet & commanded them: "stand up for your chief." Thus, it is proper to stand up on such occasions, but if anyone does not stand up then there is no harm. Nevertheless, we are definitely urged in a hadith that we should at least move at our places and not remain rooted like a statue when someone comes to us, and we must display pleasure on his coming so that he may feel that he is honoured.

To honor a Muslim is to honor his Faith

. In fact, the honour and respect given to a Muslim is directed to the faith he holds in his heart. It 1s the demand and right of the Kalimah Tayyibah': He believes, that we honour him. It may be that the man appears weak in faith and his deeds and appearance may not conform fully to religion, but we do not know the status of the faith Allah has placed in his heart, or how far he has received Allah's approval. Hence, we must honour the visiting Muslim.

Honoring a respectable disbeliever 

We are, of course, commanded to honour all Muslims But, the above hadith asks us to honour even a disbelieving chief of his people. Islamic mariners demand of us that we honour him. His disbelief is what we hate but because his people hold him in esteem we must also show courtesy. We must not treat him roughly lest he despise us and our religion.