The Realm and Leading Role of Fear and Hope in Life

Fear and hope are two crucial and key elements in human life. In Islamic religious doctrines, both fear of being treated with Allah's anger and hope to His great mercy have been taken into consideration and the necessity of following moderation in fear and hope has been highlighted. By making use of some Quranic verses and some Traditions (hadiths), the author examines evidence that there is immoderation in fear and hope. Thus, he poses Divine deception (Istedraj). Accordingly, if one has extreme hope to the Allah's mercy, it results in safety feeling of divine punishment and after being saturated with worldly pleasures; he will be stopped from being the Servant of Allah and the Hereafter. On the other hand, if one has great fear, he disappointed at the Divine mercy. The degrees of Fear and hope vary proportional to the degrees of being in different Servants.