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Protect Your Gaze
will become preoccupied with it. This will lead to whispers and distracting thoughts, and ultimately, your heart will become heedless of goodness and remain absorbed in them.[1]
Remember, just as Allah Almighty has commanded the avoidance of improper glances in the Holy Quran, numerous hadith also instruct Muslim men to lower their gazes and refrain from looking at what Allah has made unlawful.
Let us listen to three sayings of The Holy Prophetصَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم regarding this matter.
Three Blessed Hadith Regarding Lowering the Gaze
- The Prophet said: ‘Avoid sitting in the pathways.’ The noble Companions رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهُم responded: ‘O Messenger of Allah صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, we have no alternative but to sit in the pathways; we sit there to converse.’ He instructed: ‘If you have no choice but to sit in the pathways, then you must fulfil the rights of the pathway.’ The noble Companions رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهُم asked: ‘What are the rights of the pathway?’ He answered: ‘To lower the gaze, remove harmful objects, respond to the greeting of salām, enjoin good, and forbid evil.’[2]
- He stated: ‘You must certainly lower your gazes, protect your private parts, and keep your faces straight, or else Allah will disfigure your faces.’[3]
- He stated: ‘Do not follow one glance with another (meaning, if your gaze falls upon a non-mahram unintentionally, you should
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
