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Being God-Conscious

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Being God-Conscious

im Corbett (1875-1955) was a legendary British hunter. He
Jauthored 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

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