fear of God
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
khashyat Allāh · anger, savagery, judgements, vengeance, condemnation · awe of God · fear · taqwā · the fear of God · خشية الله · خوف الله
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Godfearing, named as the mightiest nobility and the one sufficient safeguard.
No praise where there is pride, no honour where there is bad character, no disease more baffling than ignorance, and no nobility mightier than the fear of God.
Adab al-wazīr
Reverent fear of God, identified as the content of the first aspect of caution.
might and strength magnify the heart, and better than both is the fear of God the Exalted;
Letters
Reverence for God as the true measure of worth and obedience.
For we know ourselves, and we know that for every man there is by nature an equality of like honour toward all, and that the points of superiority among us are not according to family, nor according to abundance of money, nor according to the frame of the body, but according to the superiority of the fear of God.
But I think that no one who has a mind and possesses the fear of God suffers from this sickness.
We solemnly charge every man who fears the Lord and awaits the judgment of God not to be carried away by various teachings.
Adversus Marcionem
The attribute of being feared as judge, denied of Marcion's good god but demonstrated of Christ through the demons' fearful submission.
save that Marcion denies that his god is feared, defending that the good is not feared but the judge, with whom are the matters for fear — anger, savagery, judgements, vengeance, condemnation.