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You love, you have hope.

The opposite of that is fear, but it is a fear when it comes to Allah.

It's different from fearing a lion or something dangerous and harmful.

If you see someone of the opposite gender, the opposite sex that you are really attracted to somehow,

and your eye, we're talking of halal. So you just looked and you looked away. But as you're looking away, your heart did do, doom, doom, doom, right? It's telling you something, don't look, don't look, right? That fear is very different. They asked me yesterday, you know, we are the fear of Allah, the fear of Allah, how do you explain it because

we want to worship Allah with lots of hope? Now you know the Hadith says, al-Imanu

bain al-hawfi and Raja. Believe is actually the right balance between fear and hope.

But how can I worship someone while I'm scared of him? I was more fearful of my own father

at that particular time. To say, if I don't get up, I'm going to him. I was more fearful of my own father at that particular time.

To say, if I don't get up, I'm going to get a beating, man. That was a teaching phase. The fear of Allah is a fear that is born out of love.

It means when you love someone so much, there is an element of fear to disturb the relationship. You love your spouse, you love.

In fact, in the cases of a lot of the young people, even Haram love, if a person has love of someone,

they will never want to do anything to disturb that relationship.

They worried about what they say, how they say it.

Imagine they just broke your phone.

You say, oh, my love, it's okay,

don't worry. Are you okay? Everything in your mind is saying, damn hell. You know, how dare you

do if you were anyone else, I would have, you know, whatever. But if in all honesty, if you look at it

carefully, you are only controlling what you want to say because of the love element, the love

factor, you don't want to disturb the relation. The fear of disturbing a relationship will make you

say things in a certain way, will make you tread or walk on eggshells, just because you don't

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