“One version has, "Who is fearful of Allah and spares people from his evil."”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 598
Sunni Hadith
No sale de lo malo quien está en él, porque teme encontrarse... con lo malo.
Voces (1943)
“One version has, "Who is fearful of Allah and spares people from his evil."”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 598
Sunni Hadith
“Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Sono maggiori li spaventi ch'e mali.
Act III, scene xi
The Mandrake (1524)
“Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.
Canto I, l. 64
The Art of Poetry (1674)
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 142.
Poul Anderson book Three Hearts and Three Lions
Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 102)
“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”
Dmitri Shostakovich book Testimony
Page 8
Of his Eleventh Symphony.
Testimony (1979)
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (1485–1540) English statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII of England
Letter to Stephen Vaughan.
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy