The holder of this message should fear no one but Allah(SWT): Fear is one of the dangerous problems which undeveloped peoples and nations suffer from.

If fear takes hold of an individual and paralyses his memory and his capacity of conscious perception, it deprives him of the enjoyment of life, and confuses him mentally so that he loses the ability of judgment.

The most dangerous type of fear is the fear of illusion and apparition, such as if one sees a tree and believes that it is a fierce animal, or if he sees a post and thinks it is a ghost, so he runs away from it. This occurs only to feeble minded people either because their mental growth is not normally developed like all children, or because they had not enough information to link with the real world. This fear is treated either going deep in research and bringing things close to the patients understanding, or by giving ideas related to what they fear of, provided that these ideas have a tangible reality with respect to them. By this treatment they are delivered from the dominance of fear either by its removal, or by its gradual decrease until its traces are plucked out.

There is also a type of wide spread fear which results from the lack of equilibrium between the outcome of performing an action and that of not simple things and fall into risks, such as fear of the ruler, which may bring harm to the individual who may in turn bring about harm to the nation. Another example of this type of fear is the soldier’s fear of death in the battlefield which may lead to the ruin of the entire army (and he is one of it). Likewise we can cite fear of prison for the sake of a creed which an individual holds, a fear which causes the loss of the creed and is more painful than the prison itself.

This fear is dangerous to the nation, it leads to ventures and may even lead to destruction.

Nevertheless, fear of real things is, in contrast, useful. It is rather a duty, if it slighted or ignored, it becomes harmful whether to the individual himself or the nation. Fear in this case is a guardian and a protector.

For this reason, it is necessary to explain the great dangers to which a nation is exposed so that the latter will consider them and get rid of them.

Fear of Allah and of His affliction is a useful thing. It is a duty as well as an honest guardian.

For this cause, this kind of fear has the most magnificent effect on the self, it is so useful to an extent that it is not only needed but it should be created as well, because it is an honest guard. It guarantees the movement of man along the right path.

Therefore, fear is a part of man’s nature. Concepts are the forces which stimulate it in man, or bring man far from it, and it is, as we have seen, one of the most dangerous things in some respects, and one of the most useful things in other respects. To avoid its dangers and enjoy its uses, man must surrender to the right concepts only, namely to the concepts of Islam.