Quranic Wisdom

Being God-Conscious time and energy. Adopt the way of adjustment, and ensure your success. Being God-Conscious J im Corbett (1875-1955) was a legendary British hunter. He authored a famous book Man-Eaters of Kumaon. It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating tigers and leopards. In one instance he observes the dreadfulness of the tiger thus: “The near proximity of a tiger in daylight, even when it has not seen you, causes a disturbance in the blood stream. When the tiger is not an ordinary one, however, but a man-eater and the time is ten o’clock on a dark night, and you know the man-eater is watching you, the disturbance in the blood stream becomes a storm.” (The Mukhtesar Man-eater) The combination of these two sentiments, your love for God and your realization of God’s greatness, manifests in a unique form. All the words of the dictionary fall short of expressing this sentiment. This storm in the bloodstream is due to fear of the tiger. Fear of the same kind is also an attribute of a true believer for God. There is a verse in the chapter Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War) of the Quran in this regard: True believers are those whose hearts tremble with awe at the mention of God. (8:2) Both the fear of the tiger and the fear of God appear to be the same. But, there is a qualitative difference between the two. The