If not fearing the One who sustains my life and who has all death and all life and all compassion and all power and all wisdom and all justice in his hands, lessened my fear as a human being, if it made me less fearful, I would surely never fear god and never consider it a valuable stance to fear him. But I found myelf intensely, infinitely more fearful of inifinitely many things and powers when i had not made the choice to negate all those powers and return them to the their single source that i then call god or ‘o dear one’ or ‘o merciful one’ and so on in english. I fear god because i realized that my alternative was to fear, without recourse or hope or end, all that wasn’t powerful over bringing any harm or benefit.
i see so many people who dont want to fear god, dont like the idea of fearing anything. the god they don’t want to fear is, to them, the same kind of oppressor as other things that make them afraid, are….they haven’t the understanding or means to realize they fear non-gods…they are introduced to a god who does not arrive in their world on the heels of their own, personal, subjective, negation of those non-gods as absolutely impotent and not worthy of any fear or hope…no wonder they dont like to talk of fearing god that arrives without a prior discussion about what (and how) is “divine” and what is “not divine” and why..
The Quran as Revelation 