“Fear of Allah leads to everything that is good”
“Whenever I felt Allah’s fear in me, I found a fresh door of
knowledge and wisdom opened for me”
In a Hadith, it is said:
“Allah says; ‘I do not impose two fears on my slave. If he
does not fear me in this world, I shall give him fear in the next, and if he
fears me in this world I shall save him from all fears in the Hereafter”
The Prophet (SAW) says:
“All things fear a person who fears Allah, while everything is a source of fear
to him who fears somebody other than Allah.”
Yaha bin Ma’az (Rahmatullah alaih) says:
“if a man fears Hell as much as he is afraid of poverty then
he will enter into paradise.”
Abu Sulaiman Daarani (Rahmatullah alaih) says:
“There is nothing but ruin for a heart that is devoid or
fear of Allah.”
The Prophet (SAW) says:
“The face that gets wet with the smallest drop of tear from
the fear of Allah is safe from entrance into the fire of Hell.”
“When a Muslim shivers with the fear of Allah, his sins fall
away from him like the falling old leaves of a tree.”
The dear Prophet SAW has said:
“A person weeping with fear of Allah cannot go to Hell until
milk goes back into the teats (which is an impossibility)”
“What is the way to salvation?”
“Hold your tongue, staying indoors, cry over your sins.”
Hadrat A’ishah Radhiyallaho anha) once inquired of the
Prophet (SAW)
“Is there anybody among your followers who will go to
Paradise without reckoning?”
“Yes,” replied the Prophet, “The person who often cries over
his sins.”
There is another Hadith, in which my dear Master, Muhammad SAW has said:
“No drop is more dear to Allah than two drops; a drop of
tear shed in the fear of Allah, and a drop of blood shed in the path of Allah.”
It is said in the Hadith that seven persons would be under
the shade of the Arsh on the day of Judgment. One of them would be the person
who remembered Allah when all alone by himself, and tears flowed from his eyes
with awe of Allah and in repentence for his sins.
Hadrat Abu Bakr (Radhiyallaho anho) says:
“One who can weep should do so, and one who cannot should
make the appearance of a weeping- person.”
It is reported of Muhammad bin Munkadir (Radhiyallaho anho )
that, when he wept, he smeared his tears over his face and beard saying:
“I have heard that the fire of Hell does not touch the place
touched by these tears.”
Yazid bin Maisarah (Rahmatullah alaih) says:
There can be seven reasons for weeping viz., extreme joy,
Insanity, extreme pain, horror, artifice, intoxication and fear of Allah. A
single tear shed in the fear of Allah is
sufficient to quench oceans of fire (Of Hell),”
Hadrat Ka’ah ahbar (Radhiyallaho anho) says
“By Him who holds my life in his hands. I love to weep for
fear of Allah, with tears flowing down my cheeks, rather than spend a mountain
of gold in charity”
The fear of Allah, and over one’s sins, is very effective
and beneficial in attaining spiritual elevation.
It is therefore necessary that we should combine fear and
hope together in our hearts, Especially when the time of death is approaching.
We should have more hope than fear. The Prophet SAW says:
“None of you should die, except with a strong hope in the
Mercy of Allah.”
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