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Protect Your Gaze
out, Shaytan gazes at her intently.[1]
The proof of Islam, Imam Muḥammad al-Ghazālī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه, states: A person who is unable to control their eyes cannot protect their private parts either.[2]
The importance of guarding the gaze is further highlighted in the Quran, where a clear command has been revealed.
In verse 30 of Surah al-Nūr, Part 18, Allah declares:
قُلْ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِیْنَ یَغُضُّوْا مِنْ اَبْصَارِهِمْ وَ یَحْفَظُوْا فُرُوْجَهُمْؕ-ذٰلِكَ اَزْكٰى لَهُمْؕ-اِنَّ اللّٰهَ خَبِیْرٌۢ بِمَا یَصْنَعُوْنَ(۳۰)
Command the Muslim men to lower their gaze and protect their concealed parts. This is purer for them—Allah is aware of their deeds.[3]
It is stated on page 62 of the book ‘Mukhtaṣar Minhāj-ul-ꜤAbidīn’, published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah, that the command has been given here to lower the gaze. It is incumbent upon the servant to act upon the command of his Master; otherwise, he will be deemed disrespectful and will not be granted permission to enter the presence of the Master. The statement in the blessed verse, ذٰلِكَ أَزْکٰى لَهُمْ (that is purer for them), means it purifies their hearts and increases their goodness. This command informs us that in lowering the gaze lies the purity of the heart and an abundance of worship and goodness. For if you do not restrain your gaze and leave its reins loose, it will look upon futile things, and if the mercy of Allah the Almighty is not with you, you will be destroyed. This is because you will either look upon the unlawful (ḥarām) and thus fall into sin, or you will look towards the permissible (mubāḥ), and your heart
BOOK TOPIC
- The Virtue of Sending salat upon the Prophet
- Protect Your Gaze
- An Extraordinary Supplication for Protection from Sins
- Speech Intentions
- The Importance of the Gaze
- Three Blessed Hadith Regarding Lowering the Gaze
- What is Meant by the First Glance?
- The Ruling on Looking at a Woman
- From Whom Must a Man Observe Pardah?
- He Always Kept His Head and Eyes Lowered!
- He Would Close His Eyes Because of the Nurses
- Spiritual Lock of the Eyes
- The Best Way to Protect the Eyes
- (1) The Punishment for Unlawful Gazes
- (2) Eyes Will Be Filled with Fire
- (3) A Rod of Fire
- Encouragement for Pious Deed No. 9
- The Sign of a Perfect Believer
- Important Madani Pearls on Conversation
- 1. The ṣalāt for the night preceding Friday
- The six ṣalawāt and two duꜤāˈs recited in the Sunna-inspired weekly gatherings of Dawat-e-Islami
- Announcement
- 2. All sins forgiven
- 3. Seventy portals of mercy
- 4. The reward of 600,000 ṣalāt
- 5. Nearness to the Prophet صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ
- 6. The ṣalāt of intercession
- 1. Good deeds for 1000 days
- The Remaining Madani Pearls on Conversation
- Weekly gathering schedule for 25th September 2025
- 2. An easy way to spend every night in worship
- Supplication for the first morsel of food and for every morsel
- Method of collective accountability (72 Pious Deeds)
- Method of collective accountability (72 pious deeds) daily 56 pious deeds
- Record of qufl-e-Madinah
- Ten weekly pious deeds
- Three monthly pious deeds
- One yearly pious deed
- Two lifetime pious deeds
- The Amir of Ahl al-Sunna’s dua
