Fear Of Displeasing God Vs Fear Of Hell Fire To Stay Away From Sins?
Okay, thank you so much. This clarifies everything
Well to be humble is to accept Allah’s command. Allah does believe that we need Hell as a motivator. I even showed you example of prophets being threatened with punishment above. So how can you have this opinion of yourself, saying that you don’t need this as a motivator? Think what you are saying. Prophets and companions! Literally the closest to God! They are using Hell as a motivator because that’s the point. Human beings are weak and this weakness is kept in mind when Paradise and Hell are introduced by Allah. So I tell you again and again, to follow the right approach. We have too many sins on our shoulders to feel that we don’t need Hell as a motivator. Whenever Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) ordered the Muslims to do something, he used to order them deeds which were easy for them to do, (according to their strength and endurance). They said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! We are not like you. Allah has forgiven your past and future sins.” So Allah’s Apostle became angry and it was apparent on his face. He said, “I am the most Allah fearing , and know Allah better than all of you do.” https://sunnah.com/bukhari:20 You say you have no arrogance, but saying you don’t need Hell as one of the main motivators sadly, already hints a problem and I’m sorry to inform you this.
Okay. I now realize that the reasonings that I talked about at start of this post were actually feelings related to an action or a thing. Similar to bad smell when you are about to eat a rotten food, you stop there along with knowing that eating that food will cause poisoning. So, using that analogy, when there is a thought about disrespecting God, I feel a sense of shame from that thought so an urge to stop while knowing that if I do it, there is an extreme punishment in hell for that. Sometimes the fear of hell comes up first as an immediate reaction. For example in case of stealing So, I don’t know if I am doing something wrong, but this just feels natural and it is working for me. Does this still align with the fitrah-based analogy? Do you mean that the actual reason for not doing something bad is avoiding hell and earning heaven? And it doesn’t matter the order of reactions that come up for something wrong I am thinking of doing as long as the primary purpose of not doing that is avoiding hell and earning heaven?