Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: ((Say: "Indeed, I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the punishment of a great day."))

Then he said: What is the object of "laish"? For ? Yes.
The student: ...

The Shaykh : Or "if I disobey"?
The student: ...

The Shaykh : "I fear the punishment" is not the object of , why?
The student: ...

The Shaykh : The punishment is not something that is disobeyed. The meaning... well, fear cannot be defined by anything clearer than its word itself. It is not possible to define it by anything clearer than its word. Everyone knows fear, is that not so? Therefore we say: psychological emotions cannot be known by anyone, because there is nothing clearer than their word. There is never anything clearer than their word. If a person said: "Define for me hatred," what would you say? You would say: "Hatred is known. Hatred is hatred." Define love, yes. You cannot. Love is love, yes.
The student: ..
The Shaykh : No. Inclination is an effect of love. After one loves, one inclines. Therefore Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) says in *Rawdat al-Muhibbin*—and I do not know if it is from him or not: "It is not possible to define love by anything clearer than its word, ever. All those who defined it have more than twenty definitions. All of them merely explain it by its necessary consequences and results." And he is truthful (may Allah have mercy on him). Psychological emotions: a person cannot know them by more than their word. If you ask a child who does not know definitions, "What is the meaning of fear?" he says: "Fear is that I tremble." No, that is one of its effects. "Fear is that I run away." That is one of its effects. So we say: what is fear? It is known. It is fear, yes.
Disobedience is opposition, and it occurs in two ways: either by leaving what is commanded or by doing what is forbidden. This is if it is considered separately from obedience. If it is paired with obedience, then obedience becomes doing what is commanded, and disobedience becomes committing what is forbidden. Well, here we say: it is separate from obedience, so what is the meaning?
The student: ...

The Shaykh : It encompasses both meanings: his opposition to , meaning you opposed him by doing what is prohibited or by leaving what is commanded. And in his saying: , there is an indication that He, the Exalted and Majestic, is the One to whom belongs command and prohibition, because He is the Lord, and the Lord is the Creator, Owner, and Manager. is the Day of Resurrection. Allah the Exalted described it in the Noble Qur'an with several descriptions, including greatness, due to its severity, the severity of its terrors, and the severity of what occurs in it. If you see or hear the descriptions that Allah the Exalted mentioned for this great day, there is no doubt that fear will seize you to the extent that you believe in it. Note: the stronger a person's faith in the Last Day, the greater his fear of it. And the weaker his faith in the Last Day, the weaker his fear of it. Therefore, we have a well-known saying: "Everyone who knows Allah better fears Him more. And everyone who knows the Last Day better and has stronger faith in it has stronger fear."