A rich and powerful Persian was taking a walk in his garden together with his servant. The servant was crying because he had just met Death, who said he was soon going to take him away. He asked his master to let him have his fastest horse so that he could to run away to Teheran and be safe there by night fall. The master let him do so, and the servant fled on horse back. Inner restlessness and fear of death are definite signs that we are far away from God.
Fear of death is, in fact, fear of meaningless life.
It is fear of coming in the presence of God, without having finished one's life work. It is not the war that causes that fear. It only reveals it. That is why it is not only the bearers of evil and death that are separated from God, but also those who fear that evil and death. While the war goes on, we feel God as being very cruel.