GLOSSARY OF SUFISM
Monday, April 02, 2007 By Maryam
الخوف
4. khawf
(as in Holy)
Fear~
4. khawf
(as in Holy)
Fear~
The "fear" is the trouble of a restless heart from being taken by what is repugnant or from being loosen by what it is attached to. Its fruit is the desire to the obeisance and getting far from the non obeisance.
The fact of manifesting fear without conforming one's acts is simulation.
Fear for the common popularity is of punishment or the fact of being deprived from reward. What the elite is afraid of is to be reprimanded and to loose the occasion to approach [God]. As for the chosen ones, it is the fear from being veiled [of the Divine Presence] because of an act of indelicacy [in regards to God].
The fact of manifesting fear without conforming one's acts is simulation.
Fear for the common popularity is of punishment or the fact of being deprived from reward. What the elite is afraid of is to be reprimanded and to loose the occasion to approach [God]. As for the chosen ones, it is the fear from being veiled [of the Divine Presence] because of an act of indelicacy [in regards to God].
(Translated from
Glossaire du Soufisme. Ibn 'Agiba. A. Saleh Hamdan)
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