In this day and aqe, due to the shamelessness and immodesty which has been spread through

Pornography, TV, VCR, Internet, Cell Phone, Cinema, etc., so many people's lives have been destroyed.

Young people have ruined their youth in illicit sexual intercourse and masturbation. Life-long marriages have been broken due to unlawful love affairs. On 'a social level, society is plagued with problems such as rape, prostitution, chi Id molestation and pedophi Ie, homosexuality, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

The question arises as to what is the root of all these problems? May Allah Ta'ala reward our Mashs''ikh and pious predecessorswho look at the world 'with the eye of the heart, enlightened by the light of the Our'een, Hadllh and the burning love of Allah Ta'ala. They have diagnosed 'all these sickness to be brought about by one

deadly disease. The root of all these problems is the SIN OF THE EYES, castlnq evil gla,nces, looking at the opposite or same sex: with lustful gazes.

Unfortunately today, people do not even consider casting evil glances to be a sin, when in actuality it is the root of innumerable vices and sins.

Another reality which people

are totally unaware of is that by ...

"Protecting one's eyes from lustful glances, one is prom ised the taste of the sweetness of Imaari'

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lIRe who protects his eyes from unlawful gaz~, Allab Talala will grant him the light ottne heart 11

Casting evil glances is clearly forbidden by the (.$11,i ~. clear and expllclt text ot the Qur1a.,an. Allah Ta,I'ala says:

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(Mea,ning, do not look at ,gh,air'rnah.rarn women and handsome boys).

Therefore, he who casts evil glance.s is opposing the clear and expllclt command of QurJaan, 'and: one who opposes the clear and explicit command of tJur"aanis guilty of committing a HARAAMact. Thus, to save oneself from this sin, it is sufflelent to meditate upon the fact that the one who casts evllqlances is opposlnq a commandment of the Qur'aan. In other words, he Is disobeying Allah Talala.

The one who casts evil glances is breaching the trust of Allah Talala. Allah Ta'ala says:

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"He knows the mistrustotth« eyes and that which the hearts conceet. '"

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Allah Ta'ala uses the word :iJ~,which means to commit mistrust. This Indicates that we arenot t.he owners of our eyes rather we have been entrusted with them. This is the reason why suicide is forbidden, because we are not owners of our bodies. Allah Ta'ala has entrusted us with our bodies. Since they are a trust from Allah Ta'ala, to use it against His pleasure, to harm it or to put an end to It ls forbidden. If we were owners of our bodies then perhaps we would have the riqht to use them the 'way we desire. By not g-iving us the choice and freedom to utilize our bodies, the way we desire is the' proof that this is at trust from Allah Ta'ala.

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Harm No.3: Curses From Nabi (~J ~ iiI'~)

The one who casts evil glances is cursed 'by Nabi (~J /)J)p ~~ ~). Nabi (~j ,.._JP ,a~ ~) says in a, Hadith mentioned in Mishkaat Shareef:

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UMaythe curse of Allah be upon the one' who casts evil glances and upon the one 'who presents himlherselftobe looked at.1I

(Mishka,a,t; Pg. 270)

If casting evil glances wasa minor sin, then Nabi CJ.uJ ~J]C'~...&l~) being a mercy to mankind would nat have cursed its perpetrator. The curse of Nabi ( ~, ~,J /.'J;c ,..ful) is clear proof that this 'is a very despicable crime. The meaning of curse is to become distant from the mercy of Allah. Imam Raghib I sfahani

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Hazrat Hakeernul Umrnnat Thanwi (r;2b ~j ~.J) said:

uEverysin is a. sign of stupidity and fool ish ness.

Anyone who commits sin. then this is a, sign that there is some deficiency in his intellect. He is, disobeying such a Being in 'whose hands is our lite and death, our health and sickness, peace and comfort. good and evil end. If' his intellectwassound he would never commit sin.

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B.y castlnq ~glances he attains nothing other than restleasness in his heart,

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the head experiences grief and sorrow when looking 'at beauties, but grief and sorrow is also felt when protecting the eyes. A person feels regret in his heart saying, no how pretty that face may have been." So what is the difference? Onewill be causing pain to the heart elther way, by looking and not looking. The answerto this is that the pain experienced by looking at the beauty is more severe than the pain felt when guarding the eyes.

When a person casts e'v'i I gla.nces at any beauty the'n one comes to know of her shapes and features. "Her eyes are like this, her nose is like that and she 'has a model

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face ... u This grief is termed as "qrief of known and recognized beauty" which is more severe and causes more restlessness and uneasiness in the heart.

The sweetness of faith which one attains fr601 the' 'regret of not attaining the "unknown and unreeoqnized beauty" will be _SQ enjoyable that it wi II, surpass all the eembined e,[1jdym,e~nts. of the world,

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By casting evil glances the thought of' that beauty continuously comes into the heart and mind. Through this, the heart is in a continuous struggle and eonfllct wh ich causes the heart to become weak and sickly.

The curse of casting evil glances is that alonq with the eyes.! the five senses and the entire body becomes aqitated.

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AflalnclAJotJsi(~Ji4I ~J) explains this verse In his Tstseer ff{jl7ul Maaniundar four' head'in~~ps;

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Thus, in this verse there is an indication that he will be punished if he does not repent.

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lntereourae, lnwhleh a person becomes sha·mel_ss·, makes him.self naked and then humiliates and degrades himself i·n both worlds!

This is why Allah Ta'ala forbade the very beginning stage of casting evil glances. The example of this sin is like an escalator which automatically takes a person to the final stage, as soon as he puts his foot on the first step. That action whose beginning is evil, what can be expected of the end result?

One, physical harm of casting evil. gl,ancesis that

the urinary bladder becomes swollen due. to which a person is compelled to repeatedly urinate.

By casting evil glanc.es the sexual desires increase due to which the heat and temperature of the body rises.

This in turn, makes the semen thin and watery by which a person gets the sickness of premature ejaculation Such a. person is unable to property fulfill the rights of his wife due to which their marital relations and eventually their family life is destroyed.

Casting evil gJances brings about inqratitudewithin the heart. When a person islookinq at S'O many faces and features then his own wife does not remain attractive to 'him.

Hence, he becomes ungrateful thlnkinq to himselfthathe did not get a good-looking wife .. And. if she is good-lookingl then he thinks to himseltthat she could have been more beautiful.

That woman Which appears more attractive to him than his own wife,. then even if His own 'wife is beautiful, she is still nat as attractive as the other woman, In this way, he is i:?ecoming ungrateful of AllahJs favors.

As tor the one who g'uards' his eyes out of Allah's fear, find does no look-at other worn an: than even if hls 'wc···lfe· is not 'S"O' beautiful Sbo"IC:

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stillattractiveto him and lin this manner he rem a!i ns grateful to Allal for th-is favors

By casting evil glances a person's eyesight becomes weak. This is because by guard,ing one's gaze, one is f'ulf'illin_g gratitu,de for the blessinq of' sight and the reward of' gratefulness is the increase of: blessinqs as it is mentioned in the QlJr'aian'Sh',areef'

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Coasting evil glance's on the other hand is ingratitude and the purnshment.of ingratitude is severe; as is 'mentioned in the Quraan Sf:Jareet

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'!An,d ,if'you' are ungra,feful [then know tnst ,My' punishment is severe. II

The greatest reward one attains by guarding' the eyes is the special closeness of Allah

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This is because guarding the eyes makes the evil desires ofthe heart to bleed and when 'a, I I four corners of' the heart become red, by shedding the blood of' reqret, then from every horizon of' the heart the sun of: the closeness of Allah will rise.

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lf a person wou.I~, realize how.distant he beeornes from Allah Ta'ala by eastinq evil :gla.Ploesthen he would never cast evil ,gIEtnCe,s.

Theexampleof tMls is like that heart whish is direotedtowards AUa.h Ta'ala at ·90 O"6;9reas and' then casts eVil.gla·nc'e;s.

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Ev~ry mo'fnent the heart tlecotf1e~s occupied with, thou~thts of tH'~:f rbtti'n,g attct de'Gaying corpse. The heart IS destroyed b~(thes:e' thQ,[J'g,:nts ana m,orYy'",' n,e~Q~le have/ev"A~n died, an evll death.

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C·a,sting eV'il gla,nces could eventually lead to a heart attack. This is because the hea rt bee .om e·'s·. occu ipied in a

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continuous struggle.

The beauty pulls the heart tohim/her and. Allah's tear pulls the heart in its direction.

Through this struggle and pain a person eventually gets a heart attack because this internal conflict causes the heart to increase in size. If he would have protected his ga,ze' then he would not have been caught up in this internal struqqle 'and he 'would

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,By gi':vi:n'g' ,Q,n'sls heart to JLJ.st sicily stranger lead:s to b:8V'irig ,8 heart-attack, Ho'wever1 one :$helJ lid take note "of the taet that there are many causes ofa heart attack. The'refo,re, a ~e,rson s r hould not have t~bemisund~~rstandin:g lhat ~n~yQne'who has had, a heart Clttac,J{ wa;si~\toh/ed In casting e'flit sla:nc~es:. One should ta"lSe special c~r'e' a:ndDe cautious of thts 1n the case of plous people. One should have.a gaod' G,pin'ion of them. We have been commanded to, haves. gi90d,:thtJugh'1.and opinion of evt'ry'MusJi'rl1.;

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and 0 nin'g anyo~ne,. Rather one

auld worry about oneself, Ponder over' this harm that if I cast evil glances then it will eventually lead to a heart attack.

By casting evil glances the sexual des lres are i nfl am ed can din cited. If a person does not attain the beauty whom he was casting evllglances at, then he win fulfill his inflamed desires by committing illicit sexual intercourse wit.h anyone he gets a hold' of, even if he/she is ugly.

He intlamed his desires by looking at a beautiful tace and satisfies this desire by havinq illicit sexual intercoursewith someone with an ugly face. He tasted evil glances out of greed for beauty and ended up deqradinq himselfwith such an uqlyperscn that one cannot stand to even look at her/him.

Casting evil g'lancing causes the seminal f'l u id to come out of its place. And once the semen leaves its place then it cannot qo back, The semen cannot reverse like a car.

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us as In u e ca,se a a goa or cow S uccer I canna go oackoecause

the udder is a place of: discharqe not intake. Similarly semen cannot go

back into its place after being released. It has to be discharqed one way or the other, whether it be lawful or forbidden.

By' practicing =th,e ablfu/e '[l1l1n Qn~d iQl:lldeHnes" Insha.-Alla,h,Y'lour Nuts w.ill eorm under control. In this way you wiJl Dei cured of the, love~ of all ba!ings other than Allcdi.Yo.ui heart and ~ol!J1 wilillereeive s;uch, rewards that will bring ec~a~~y to y~,ur stJQI all the time, The heart VII i II e::x,peri ence sueh tran.qu'i nty that ev~n the ki ngs do not ~rea,m of .. It will se::en .sifs. life of hell has ,l)een chang'eo inl0 a heavenly life