Re: Is fear…
Peace ~RestLess~
I was seeing where these responses were going, but unfortunately I feel daada’s post is misleading and in turn affected your response. Fear is not the antithesis for contentment. Fear is a faculty of the nufs and it must be directed not eliminated. Taqwa contains the meaning of both simultaneously loving and fearing Allah (SWT) in which case the correct place to direct fear is in Allah (SWT).
The idea of exercising caution is to estimate, evaluate, risk mitigate - all of which are mental functions … the concepts of Zen remove emotion from the equation of decision making, however Islam balances decision making not by removing emotion but by placing it subservient to the faculty of wisdom. This concept can be understood in Imam Al-Ghazalis Ihya UloomuDeen …
Besides how much more beautiful is it to place fear in Allah (SWT), than not to fear at all and merely exercise caution?