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in observing immodest scenes. Similarly, some people’s ears remain absorbed in listening to haram. They engage in sins like listening to music, needless obscene jokes, backbiting, tale-telling and the faults of others. In a similar manner, some people’s hearts are accustomed to spiritual diseases, such as evil thoughts, malice, envy.

Therefore, the intelligent person is the one who fears being held to account in the Hereafter and is thereby successful in preventing his limbs from sins. Otherwise, when we are questioned about these limbs on the Day of Judgement, we will have no answer.

Allah Almighty mentions in the 15^th Juzˈ of the noble Quran, in verse 36 of Sūrah Banī Isrāˈīl:

اِنَّ السَّمۡعَ وَ الۡبَصَرَ وَ الۡفُؤَادَ کُلُّ اُولٰٓئِکَ کَانَ عَنۡہُ مَسۡـُٔوۡلًا (۳۶)

Translation from Kanz al-Īmān: “Indeed, the ear, the eye, and the heart; all of these are going to be questioned.”^{^[1]}

Under this verse in Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī, it is mentioned:

Each one of these will be questioned about the way they were used. Thus, the heart will be asked regarding what it was used to think about and then which of these thoughts was adopted, and the eyes and ears will be asked about what was viewed and listened to through them.^{^[2]}

ꜤAllāmah Sayyid Mahmūd Ālūsī al-Baghdādī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه comments:

This verse is evidence of a person’s accountability in relation to the matters of his heart. For example, making a firm intention to sin and being involved in the various spiritual diseases, such as malice, envy, self-conceit, etc. However, the scholars have

[1] Al-Quran, 17:36

[2] Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī, vol. 20, p. 139

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