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We talked about the concept of love and hope. Today we're going to move on to fear.

Fear is mentioned in the Qur'an in so many verses.

Whoever has Khouf of the Makam of Allah, the status of Allah, shall have multiple

jannas. The believers have Khashia of Allah and they have Khashia of no one other than Allah.

The believers are those who when they think of Allah, their hearts tremble.

Notice how many different verbs are used in the Qur'an.

You have the verb of Khouf of the concept of Khouf which is to fear.

You have the concept of Khashia and Khashia is the highest level of fear.

You have the concept of Wajilah, their hearts are trembling.

You have the concept of Isfak and women Khashyati is Mushfiqun and also in the Qur'an.

And Shafak is a type of fear that allows you or causes you anxiety that you want to not have the fear

which causes you to act so that you avoid the fear.

In other words, Shafak is an action based fear.

Because of the fear, you're going to do something to not feel that fear.

You're going to act to prevent that fear from happening.

Now, when we talk about fear of Allah, it is very important to underscore that this fear is not coming out of a sense of

we don't want to be touching the Adab of Jahannam and that's it.

That's a very superficial level. It's not wrong but it is not correct either.

The ultimate fear of Allah comes from our own sense of disappointing Allah

as the Wajil whom we should please. Our sense of disconnecting from the one we want to connect with.

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