True Islam as I understand it. (ALEH)

Fear of allah is not an armour against falling into sin. To know that one can never err, can be deceiving to oneself, coz shaitan has more ways of making the unseemly look pleasing than one can think of."

We do make mistakes but the fear of Allah, as Ann puts it is fearing to displease Him, so when a mistake is made by one who fears Allah he will ask forgiveness for it. Even when he does not see a mistake because he knows there are.

The requirment by Allah is not not to sin, Only Allah(He is The One and The Self Suficient) does not sin and those special beings he created with the atribute of not able to sin. but having faith in Allah, fearing Him alone and seeking His mercy. This is the requirment. As for shaitaan, Allah says in the koran that he has no power of His purely devoted(mukhlaseen) servants.

Auzubillahi minash shaitan ir rajeem,

Bismillah ir rahman ir rahim,

Community wrote: If one has the fear for Allah and the hope for His mercy, this person can not go wrong. Even if this person makes a mistake, Allah can make bad deeds into good(because after all the whole affair is His)

Fear of allah is not an armour against falling into sin. To know that one can never err, can be deceiving to oneself, coz shaitan has more ways of making the unseemly look pleasing than one can think of.

The Prophet (SAW) did not sin, but he used to seek Allah's forgiveness 70 times each day. This is said in a hadith, thus a recommendation for muslims to seek forgiveness and be humble.

The Prophet(SAW) said that he fears allah the most amongst all ... yet there are incidences in the Quran where he has been corrected on his decisions. eg, the incident of the blind man, and the time when he vowed not to see any of his consorts.

A Godfearing person is not one who is free from error, but one who turns to allah in humility after having slipped.

Community wrote:  The explanation of the words of Allah(tafsir)....the faithful do not need His words explained,

But the prophet (SAW) used to be seeked by the arabic speaking masses to explain to them further the exactness of the revealed words.

So may be the modern day man is more intelligent to understand Quran just by reading it, the traditional method of understanding is thru reading, contemplation and Suluk of authentic scholarship.

Maa salaama,

Nausheen

Bismillah,

Taqwa as I understand it means a fear of displeasing Allah, SWT, because we love Allah, SWT.  So this is different from being afraid of getting a ticket for speeding.  We want to get there in a hurry, and we don't want repurcussions.  We are afraid of the money and the points on our licenses.  When we sin, like procrastination, laziness, impatience, we know that Allah, SWT, wants us to do our best in life, and we are dissappointed in ourselves for not focusing better on the things Allah, SWT, has laid out for us to do as our jihads.

These kind of men fear women, fear being socially rejected by what they feel is the woman having too much power. So again the problem of these men is fearing something else or someone else then Allah alone. Which makes them unjust.