Self-respect and the Respect to Others as Self Sacrifice in Islam

By analyzing and dividing ego to unreal ego (the lower or personal ego) and real ego (sublime or collective ego), this article tries to solve the antinomy between the negation of self in self-sacrifice and acknowledgement of the self in self-respect from one side, and an apparent contradiction between self-esteem and respecting others from the other side. Then it applies the result of the argument in the case of the victim of Karbala in the history of Islam. By gathering self-sacrifice and self-respect and also by bringing selfesteem and honoring others closer together a new philosophy of life will be born in which one can sacrifice himself even in the heyday of his greatness (the negation of western nihilism) and one can reject the meanness and create a great change in the world even in his utmost devotion (the negation of eastern nihilism)