Balanced Approach To Fear Of Allah
Yes Brother I think I do agree with you. The fear of Allah should be similar to the one that Umer Bhai explained above, ie fear of displeasing a loved one rather than fear of a king. Hence this fear should bring you closer to Allah Rather than turn one into an extremist, a nutcase or both. Even if we look at the Hadith corpus there is one Hadith which I feel shatters everything these fear mongers stand for in which a bedouin came to the Prophet (pbuh) and asked him the easiest way to Jannah upon which the prophet replied that it was to just fulfill all the farz. After the bedouin left the the prophet (s) told his companions (I’m paraphrasing) that this guy is Jannati.