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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 101:*
وَكَيْفَ تَكْفُرُونَ وَأَنتُمْ تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ آيَاتُ اللَّهِ وَفِيكُمْ رَسُولُهُ وَمَن يَعْتَصِم بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ هُدِيَ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
And how would you disbelieve, while unto you are recited the Verses of Allah, and among you is His Messenger (Muhammad [Blessings and Peace be upon him])? And whoever holds firmly to Allah, (i.e. follows Islam Allah's Religion, and obeys all that Allah has ordered, practically), then he is indeed guided to a Right Path.
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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 102:*
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ
O you who believe! Fear Allah (by doing all that He has ordered and by abstaining from all that He has forbidden) as He should be feared. [Obey Him, be thankful to Him, and remember Him always], and die not except in a state of Islam (as Muslims) with complete submission to Allah.
*COMMENTARY*
Fear is of many kinds:
1. The abject fear of the coward.
2. The fear of a child or an inexperienced person in the face of an unknown danger.
3. The fear of a reasonable man who wishes to avoid harm to himself or to people whom he wishes to protect.
4. The reverence which is akin to love, for it fears to do anything which is not pleasing to the object of love.
The first is unworthy of man; the second is necessary for one immature; the third is a manly precaution against evil as long as it is unconquered; and the fourth is the seed-bed of righteousness. Those mature in faith cultivate the fourth: at earlier stages, the third or the second may be necessary; they are fear, but not the fear of Allāh. The first is a feeling of which anyone should be ashamed.
Our whole being should be permeated with Islam: it is not a mere veneer or outward show.
*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 101:*
وَكَيْفَ تَكْفُرُونَ وَأَنتُمْ تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ آيَاتُ اللَّهِ وَفِيكُمْ رَسُولُهُ وَمَن يَعْتَصِم بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ هُدِيَ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
And how would you disbelieve, while unto you are recited the Verses of Allah, and among you is His Messenger (Muhammad [Blessings and Peace be upon him])? And whoever holds firmly to Allah, (i.e. follows Islam Allah's Religion, and obeys all that Allah has ordered, practically), then he is indeed guided to a Right Path.
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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 102:*
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ
O you who believe! Fear Allah (by doing all that He has ordered and by abstaining from all that He has forbidden) as He should be feared. [Obey Him, be thankful to Him, and remember Him always], and die not except in a state of Islam (as Muslims) with complete submission to Allah.
*COMMENTARY*
Fear is of many kinds:
1. The abject fear of the coward.
2. The fear of a child or an inexperienced person in the face of an unknown danger.
3. The fear of a reasonable man who wishes to avoid harm to himself or to people whom he wishes to protect.
4. The reverence which is akin to love, for it fears to do anything which is not pleasing to the object of love.
The first is unworthy of man; the second is necessary for one immature; the third is a manly precaution against evil as long as it is unconquered; and the fourth is the seed-bed of righteousness. Those mature in faith cultivate the fourth: at earlier stages, the third or the second may be necessary; they are fear, but not the fear of Allāh. The first is a feeling of which anyone should be ashamed.
Our whole being should be permeated with Islam: it is not a mere veneer or outward show.
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