Imaam Ibn Qayyim (may Allaah
have mercy on him) wrote:
What will cut off element of
hope in the creatures from your heart is being pleased with the decision of
Allah and His ration allotted to you. So, whoever is contented with the verdict
of Allah and the share He has apportioned to him, no place will be left in his
heart to hope in the creatures.
What will eliminate element of
fear is submission to Allah. This is because whoever submits and surrenders himself
to Allah, and knows that whatever afflicts him is not meant to miss him, and
whatever misses him is not meant to hit him, and also recognizes that nothing
will afflict him except what Allah has written for him will have no place left for
fear of the creatures in his heart.
Verily, he has submitted his
soul, for which he fears, to its Master and Lord; and he knows that nothing
will befall it except what has been decreed for it and whatever has been
written for it will certainly happen to it. Therefore, there is no point
fearing other than Allah in any case.
There is also another pleasant
benefit in submitting to Allah; if a person surrenders his soul to Allah, he
has indeed kept it with Him. He has preserved it in His sanctuary and placed it
under His protection where the hand of an enemy cannot touch it and the
transgression of the evildoer cannot reach it.
Source: Madaarij as-Saalikeen bayna Manaazil (Iyyaaka Na‘bud wa Iyyaaka Nasta‘een) by Ibn Qayyim
al-Jawziyyah; translated by ‘Abdus-Samee’ Abdus-Salaam.
