EXCESSIVE UNRESTRAINED GAZE

EXCESSIVE UNRESTRAINED GAZE 

There are three tremendous benefits of great importance in lowering the gaze from looking at unlawful things:

The first benefit: 

The sweetness and delight of faith, which is more pleasing and delicious than what he turned his gaze away from and abandoned for the sake of Allāh. Verily, whoever abandons something for the sake of Allāh, then Allāh will replace with something that is better. 

The second benefit: 

In lowering the gaze is the illumination of the heart and precise intuition. Abu shujā' al-Karamānī said, 

"Whoever establishes his outer form upon the Sunnah and his inner self upon constant consciousness, prevents his soul from lusts, lowers his gaze from forbidden matters and always eats that which is lawful, then his intuition will not fail him."  

The third benefit:  

The strength of the heart, its firmness and courage. So Allāh gives it the authority of insight through its strength and the authority of proof through its light. And the Devil flees from him.'" 

Book: A Treatise In Condemnation Of The Hardness Of The Heart

By Al-Hāfiz Ibn Rajab al-Hanbalī

Translated by Hassan Hussein Abdi

Hikmah Publications 

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