Worship is based on 2 great principles,
1- love
2- and veneration,
the outcome of both of which is that:
“they used to hasten on to do good deeds, and they used to call on Us with hope and fear” [al-Anbiya’ 21:90].
From love comes hope and from veneration comes fear.
Hence acts of worship involve both instructions and prohibitions.
Instructions are based on hope and seeking to reach the One who issued these instructions,
and prohibitions are based on veneration and fear of the Almighty.
If you love Allah, you hope for that which is with Him and you long to reach Him, and you seek the path that leads to Him and you obey Him in the most perfect manner.
If you venerate Him, you fear Him and every time you think of committing a sin, you call to mind the greatness of the Creator, , and you refrain.
“And indeed she did desire him and he would have inclined to her desire, had he not seen the evidence of his Lord. Thus it was, that We might turn away from him evil and illegal sexual intercourse” [Yoosuf 12:24].
This is one of Allah’s blessings to you, that if you think of a sin, you find Allah before you, so you fear Him and dread His punishment, therefore you keep away from that sin, because you worship Allah with hope and fear."
(Majmoo‘ Fataawa ash-Shaykh al-‘Uthaymeen 8/17, 18)
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