Hadith 459

(The book) ‘Misbah Al Sharia’ –
‘Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘The fear is an observer of the heart, and the hope is an intercessor of the soul, and the one who were to be a knower of Allah-azwj would be fearful from Allah-azwj and hopeful to Him-azwj, and these two (fear and hope) are two wings of the Eman the servant flies with to the Pleasure of Allah-azwj, and two eyes of his intellect he sees with to the Promise of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Threats. And the fear is notifier of the Justice of Allah-azwj, preventing His-azwj Threat, and the hope is a caller to the Grace of Allah-azwj, and it revives the heart, and the fear deadens the self’’. [229]
The Prophet-saww said: ‘The Momin is between the two fears – a fear of what is past and fear of what remains, and with the death of the self would be life of the heart, and with the life of the heart he will reach to the straightness. And the one who worships Allah-azwj upon the scale of fear and hope will not stray, and he will reach to his hopes; and how can the servant not fear, and he is not a knower of what his register (of deeds) will end with, and there could be no deeds for him he can make a means with to be deserving with, nor any power for him upon anything nor any escape. And how can he not hope, and he knows himself with the inabilities, and he is drowning in a sea of Favours of Allah-azwj and His-azwj bounties from whereby he can neither count nor number? The loving one will worship his Lord-azwj upon the hope with witnessing his situations with a watchful eye, while the ascetic will worship based upon the fear’’. Oweys said to Hiram Bin Hayyan, ‘The people are working based upon hope’. He said, ‘But we are working based upon the fear; and the fear are two (types of) fears – a constant and occasional. The constant from the fear inherits the hope, and the occasional from it inherits constant fear. And the hope are two (types of) hopes – permanent and temporary. The permanent from it strengthens love of the servant, and the temporary from it corrects the hopes of inability, and the shortcoming and the embarrassment’’. [230]