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Lowering the Gaze

The 'Allāma, al-Alūsī said in Rūh al-Ma'āni, commenting on the verse: (Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze.) [al-Nūr: 30]:

"Also, it is obligatory to lower the gaze from that which is unlawful to look at, whereas the unintentional

And sudden look is pardoned. Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī and others narrated from Burayda رضي الله عنه who said:

The Messenger of Allāhﷺ said:

"Do not follow up one glance with another, for the first one is for you and the second one is not."" (Rūh al-Ma'ānī: 18/129)

From Abū Mūsā, from the Prophet ﷺ who said:

"Every eye commits fornication (al-Bazzār and al-Ṭabarānī) From 'Alqama, from the Prophetﷺ who said: The fornication of the eyes is by looking." (al-Ṭabarānī)

From 'Abdullāh b. Mas'ūd who said: "The Messenger of Allāhﷺ said

(mentioning the words of his Lord):

"The unrestrained glance is a poisoned arrow among the arrows of the Devil. He who abstains from it out of fear of Me, in return, I shall give him faith, the sweetness of which he finds in his heart." (al-Ṭabarānī and al-Ḥākim).

From Abū Umāma from the Prophetﷺ who said:
"You will most certainly lower your gazes and guard your private parts, or Allāh will surely disfigure your faces." (al-Ṭabarānī)

From Abū Umāma also, from the Prophet ﷺwho said:
"There is no Muslim who looks at the beauty of a

woman and then lowers his gaze, save that Allāh will grant him the means to perform an act of worship, the sweetness of which he shall find in his heart."

(Aḥmad)

For the Companions whom were mentioned in this thread

رضي الله عنهم