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So those who come to know the original cause which arises from the light of guidance enquire about the secret causes of Taqdir. Those who believe it only by hearing are included within the general believers. These two classes acquire the quality of fear as every person falls within the clutches of a mighty power just as a boy falls within the clutches of a ferocious beast. God created the ferocious beasts of this world as well as of the next and instruments of punishments. According to the dictates of the orignal fate one is guided towards that for which he was created.
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them some instruments or causes inspite of their willingness or unwillingness. He created Hell and its dwellers and their punishments or causes inspite of their willingness or unwillingness. So whoever sees himself immerged in the current of Taqdir, it is inevitable that he should fear. This is the fear of those who recognise God. He who has not been raised to the stage of deep insight has got the only means of hearing the Quran and Hadis and reading the actions and behaviours of the God-fearing. Those who are free from this fear belong to the party of Pharaoh and the fools. Our Prophet is the leader of men past, present and future, yet he was the most God fearing man.

It is reported that he led funeral prayer of a boy and said: O God, save him from the punishment of the grave and Hell. In another narration, he heard a person say: What a joy for you, a sparrow out of the sparrows of Paradise. He was dissatisfied with that and said: Who will inform you that it may be otherwise.
By God, I am the Apostle ot God, I don't know what will be my case. God created Paradise and its dwellers. They will not increase or decrease. When one of the dwellers of Ahle-Suffa died, his mother cried: Happy are you, you are a bird of Paradise.
You have migrated to the Prophet and is a martyr in the way of God. The Prophet said: Who will inform you that perhaps he uttered such a word which did not do any benefit to him and perhaps he was miser in such a work which did not do him any injury. The Prophet said: The chapters Hud and such like chapters, chapter Waqeah (56Q). chapter Eja-Shamsu Kobberat (81 Q), chapter Naba (78) made my hairs grey. There are verses of fear in the Quran from the beginning to the end for those who read it with care and meditation. The Prophets remained in fear inspite of the shower of mercy on them as they were not safe from the contrivance of God. When the Prophet Abraham was thrown into fire, he said: God is sufficient for me. This was his greatest invocation in his great trail. Gabriel met him in the fire and asked him: Have you got any necessity. Abraham said: I have got no necessity from you. God is sufficient for me. He fulfilled his word for which God gave him this news: And Abraham is he who fulfilled-53:37.