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Hope and fear are mixed up together. He who hopes to get his desired thing fears for its loss. For this reason God says : They pray to Me out of hope and fear. He says : They call their Lord out of fear and hope. God says : What is the matter with you that you do not hope for the sake of God? It means : Why don't you fear Him. God says : Laugh little and weep much. God says: They weep and their fear increases, the Prophet said : If the two eyes of a believer shed tears so small as the head of a bee and it flows down his cheek, God will make that place unlawful for the fire of Hell. He also said : If the mind of believer trembles owing to fear of God, his sins fall down like the falling down of the leaves of a tree.

The Prophet said: O God, give me provision of two eyes shedding profuse tears. The Prophet said : On the day on which there will be no shade except the shade of God, God will give shade to seven persons. He mentioned about that person also who shed tears through his two eyes remembering God in loneliness. Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq said : Let him weep who can weep and let him assume weeping who can not weep. The saint Abu Solaiman Darani said : The face of one whose eyes shed tears

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will have no uncleanliness on the Resurrection Day. If his eyes shed tears, the first drop of tears will extinguish fire like ocean. If any man shed tears among a party of men, God will not punish that party of men. The saint Sulaiman said : Weeping comes from fear, and hope and pleasure come from love and attachment.
Hazrat Abdullh-b-Amer said : One drop of tears is dearer to me than the charity of one thousand gold coins.

Hazrat Hanzalah reported: We were once near the Prophet who was giving us sermon. Our minds became soft for that and our eyes shed tears. Thereafter we returned to our houses and began to talk worldly matters with our wives. We forgot the state in which we were near the Prophet. We thought that we have turned hypocrites. I said : O Prophet of God our mind became soft when we were near you and our eyes shed tears. When we returned to our houses and mixed with our wives that state of mind went away. The Prophet said: O Hanzalah, had you been in that state of mind all along, the angels would have handshaked with you in your paths and beds. O Hanzalah, mind changes every moment.

Hazrat Ali said to one of his sorts: O darling fear God in such a way that if earth-load of virtues is given to Him. He will not consider it as fit to be accepted from you and hope for mercy of God in such a way that if earth-load of sins is given to Him. He will forgive you. For this reason Hazrat Omar said: If all men are called for entering Hell except one men. I hope that he shall be myself. If all men are called to enter Paradise except one man, I fear I may be that man. This is the end of hope and fear.