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Answer: This longing is also Kufr. It’s mentioned on page 208, volume 5 of ‘Al-Baĥr-ur-Rāiq’: It is Kufr to desire for permissibility of those Ḥarām acts which had never been permissible- for example, would that oppression, fornication, unjust assassination are permissible.
O seekers of the neighbourhood of the Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم in Jannat-ul-Firdaus through the mercy of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! The control of the eyes is vital because the misuse of the eyes is the first step towards this dreadful sin. Let us see a glimpse of the devastation brought by immoral glance:
Ḥāfiẓ Abū ‘Amr would teach Quran in a Madrasaĥ (Islamic school). Once, a beautiful lad came to read. The Ḥāfiẓ forgot the whole Quran just as he looked at him out of lust. He repented a lot and whilst weeping, he came to the court of a renowned Tābi’ī[1] saint Sayyidunā Ḥasan Baṣrī عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی and implored for prayer telling him the incident. Sayyidunā Ḥasan Baṣrī عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی said, ‘Get the honour of performing Hajj this very year. Pay a visit to the Masjid-ul-Khayf in Mina and ask the Imām of that Masjid to supplicate for you.’
So, the ex-Ḥāfiẓ performed Hajj and reached Masjid-ul-Khayf before Ṣalāt-uẓ-Ẓuĥr where an elderly Imām with his refulgent
[1] A Tābi’ī is that saint of Islam who had seen any companion of the Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.
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