The young ones have ruined their youth in illicit sexual intercourse and masturbation. Life-long marriages have been broken, caused by unlawful love affairs. On a social level, society is plagued with problems such as rape, prostitution, child molestation and paedophile, homosexuality, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

The question arises as to what is the root of all these problems. And a convincing answer to this important question is the eyes. The root of all these problems is the SIN OF THE EYES, casting evil glances, 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.

You can peruse this guide on how to Lower your gaze.

Another reality which people are totally unaware of is that by protecting one’s eyes from lustful glances, one is promised the taste of the sweetness of Iman. Once the sweetness of Iman enters the heart, it will never be taken back. Thus by protecting the eyes, one is given glad tidings of a good death.

Rasulullah said:

“Verily the evil glance is a poisonous arrow from the arrows of Iblees. He who abstains from casting evil glances will be granted with such Iman that he will feel the sweetness of it in his heart”. (Narrated by Ibn Mas’ud in Tabarani and Kanzul-Ummaal)

What about the heedless ones who pay no attention to protecting their eyes from evil glances? Listed below are 14 solid harms for those who fail to lower their gaze.

1. Disobedience of Allah

Casting evil glances is clearly forbidden by the clear and explicit text of the Holy Quran that says: “O Nabi, Tell the believing men to lower some of their gazes.” (Quran 30:18)

(Meaning, do not look at  women and handsome boys). Therefore, he who casts evil glances is opposing the clear and explicit command of the Qur’an, and one who opposes the clear and explicit command of the Holy Quran is guilty of disobeying Allah’s commands.

Thus, to save oneself from this sin, it is sufficient to meditate upon the fact that the one who casts evil glances is opposing a commandment of the Holy Qur’an. In other words, he is disobeying Allah Ta’ala.

2. Breach of Trust

The one who casts evil glances is breaching the trust between him and Allah. Allah says: “He knows the mistrust of the eyes and that which the hearts conceal.” (Quran 18:24)

This indicates that we are not the owners of our eyes rather we have been entrusted with them. This is the same reason why suicide is forbidden because we are not owners of our bodies.

If we were owners of our bodies then perhaps we would have the right to use them the way we desire. Allah trusts me and you, and he gave us free will to either obey or disobey his commands. To embezzle this trust of Allah is a great offence. The one who casts evil glances is breaching and embezzling the trust of sight which Allah has granted him. This person cannot become the friend of Allah.

To embezzle this trust of Allah is a great offence. The one who casts evil glances is breaching and embezzling the trust of sight which Allah has granted him. This person cannot become the friend of Allah.

How beautifully a poet has said:

The “thief of sight” can never have the crown of friendship placed upon his head He who is not a Muttaqi, is not a Wali.

3. Curses From Nabi

The one who casts evil glances is cursed by the Holy Prophet. Hadith Reports have stated that the messenger of Allah said; “May the curse of Allah be upon the one who casts evil glances and upon the one who presents him/herself to be looked at.” (Mishkaat; Pg. 270)

If casting evil glances was a minor sin, then the Holy Prophet is a mercy to mankind would not have cursed its perpetrator. The curse of Nabi is clear proof that this is a very despicable crime.

The meaning of curse is to become distant from the mercy of Allah. And he who has become distant from the mercy of Allah, cannot gain salvation from the evils of his Nafs. Only he who is under the shade of Allah’s mercy can attain salvation from the evils of the Nafs.

4. Causes Pain to the Heart

If someone says that we accept that the heart experiences grief and sorrow when looking at beauties, but grief and sorrow are also felt when protecting the eyes.

A person feels regret in his heart saying, “O how pretty that face may have been.” So what is the difference? One will be causing pain to the heart either way, by looking and not looking.

The answer to 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 does not look, then the regret, pain, and grief will also be light and minimal. The effect of this pain and grief will fade away quickly. The sweetness of faith which one attains from the regret of not attaining the “unknown and unrecognized beauty” will be so enjoyable that it will surpass all the combined enjoyments of the world.

On the other hand, by casting evil glances and making oneself go through regret and grief the anger and wrath of Allah descend. As a result of this, the heart becomes restless and uneasy. One does not have a moment of contentment in the heart and life also becomes bitter. May Allah save us!

5. Weakness of the Heart

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 conflict which causes the heart to become weak and sickly.

6. Medical Harm

One physical harm of casting evil glances is that the urinary bladder becomes swollen due to which a person is compelled to repeatedly urinate.

7. Premature Ejaculation

By casting evil glances the sexual desires increase due to which the heat and temperature of the body rise. 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 properly fulfil the rights of his wife due to which their marital relations and eventually, their family life is destroyed.

8. Ungratefulness

Casting evil glances bring about ingratitude within the heart. When a person is looking at so many faces and features then his own wife does not remain attractive to him or vice versa in the case of a woman. Hence, he becomes ungrateful thinking to himself that he did not get a good-looking wife. And if she is good-looking, then he thinks to himself that 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 not as attractive as the other woman. In this way, he is becoming ungrateful of Allah’s favours.

As for the one who guards his eyes out of Allah’s fear, and does not look at other women, then even if his wife is not so beautiful, she is still attractive to him and in this manner, he remains grateful to Allah for his favours.

9. Weakness of Eyesight

By casting evil glances, a person’s eyesight becomes weak. This is because by guarding one’s gaze, one is fulfilling gratitude for the blessing of sight and the reward of gratefulness is the increase of blessings as it is mentioned in the Qur’an:

“If you are grateful then We will most definitely increase you in blessings.” (Quran 13:7)

Casting evil glances, on the other hand, is ingratitude and the punishment of ingratitude is severe.

10. Distance from Allah

The greatest reward one attains by guarding the eyes is the special closeness of Allah. Guarding the eyes is a means of attaining Barakah. This is because guarding the eyes makes the evil desires of the heart to bleed and when all four corners of the heart become red by shedding the blood of regret, then from every horizon of the heart the sun of the closeness of Allah will rise.

11. Heart Attack

Casting evil glances could eventually lead to a heart attack. This is because the heart becomes occupied in a continuous struggle. The beauty pulls the heart to him/her and Allah’s fear 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 gaze then he would not have been caught up in this internal struggle and he would not have had a heart attack.

12. Sexual Desires are Aroused

By casting evil glances, the sexual desires are inflamed and incited. If a person does not attain the beauty whom he was casting evil glances at, then he will fulfil his inflamed desires by committing illicit sexual intercourse with anyone he gets a hold of.

He inflamed his desires by looking at a beautiful face and satisfies this desire by having illicit sexual intercourse with someone with an ugly face. He cast evil glances out of greed for beauty and ended up degrading himself with such a person.

Casting evil glances is such an evil act that does not leave you until it takes you to the final stage of sin wherein a person does not even see beauty anymore. Guarding one’s private parts after casting evil becomes impossible.

13. Leads to Masturbation

Casting evil glancing causes the seminal fluid to come out of its place. And once the semen leaves its place then it cannot go back. The semen cannot reverse like a car. Just as in the case of a goat or cow’s udder it cannot go back because the udder is a place of discharge not intake.

Similarly, semen cannot go back into its place after being released. It has to be discharged one way or the other, whether it be lawful or forbidden. The curse of casting evil glances is such that a person does not remain conscious of lawful or unlawful. He will either fulfill his lust by having illicit sexual Intercourse with some women or degrade himself by committing sodomy with some man or young lad.

If he does not get any man or woman then he will fulfil his lust by masturbating. Just as it is unlawful and forbidden to commit sexual intercourse with a strange man or woman, it is likewise forbidden to masturbate.

If you haven’t had the chance to read this, see it now on why masturbation is haram for you.

Unfortunately, this sin has become widespread in this day and age. In some narrations of Hadith, there are severe warnings against this sin. It has been mentioned that the person who masturbates shall be resurrected on the Day of Judgment with a pregnant hand.

It has also been mentioned that one who masturbates is under the curse of Allah. Fulfilling one’s sexual desires in an unlawful manner is obviously impermissible.

May Allah Ta’ala grant us the ability to practice upon what has been said.

Amen

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Well, don’t get me wrong. It is Allah who created lust, and He created it for a reason. Using your lust to disobey Allah is a great offense that comes with a great torment. So what you are about to read are the dangers of lust that will let you disobey what Allah has ordained.

The blessed heart does not find true pleasure or happiness in anything besides the love of Allah Almighty, getting closer to Him, and shunning everything beloved beside Him.

This blessed heart is tempted with several killer diseases, and one of them is the disease of lust. It most of the time goes no further than Zina (fornication/adultery)

It cast the person into distraction and drives him insanely away from the best of deeds, causes him to succumb to temptations, and misguides them unnoticed from the straight path.

People who have fallen into lust claim that it raises one’s self, and transcends one’s soul. They are praising lust to be a positive thing.  However, I think lust has severe negative effects on a human than its positive aspect.

It is a humiliation in the soul, a stain on the blessed heart, worthless in this world, and a punishment in the Hereafter. It is an ocean with a risky tide, and whoever sails on it drowns, as it has no shore.

Among the harms and negative aspects of lust are as follows:

• Lust can cause a person to disobey Allah

Some Sheikhs used to say: ‘To be tested with an immoral action is more beloved to me than to be tested with being lustful, causing my heart to show servitude to it, and busying my heart from Allah.’”

Once upon a time, there was a man who was called Saalih the Muazin, who was a caller to prayer for forty good years. Saalih was known to be pious.

It was narrated that one day, he ascended the minaret to call to prayer, and saw the beautiful daughter of a Christian man whose home was next to the mosque.

He was tested by this lady.

His lust was triggered and he finally went to her, knocked at her door, and she said: “Who is it?” He said: “I am Saalih the Muazin.”  Then the lady opened the door for him.

When he entered he hugged her in no time. The lady then said to him: “You are someone who is trustworthy. What kind of shameful behaviour is this?”

She said this because the man was trusted with the honour of others as a Muazin, since they climb on the minaret and the roofs of the mosque, enabling them to see the homes around.

The Mu’azin out of lust quickly the said: “I am free from Islam and from whatever Muhammad has brought,” and got closer to her.

See Also: Reasons why you should never Masturbate!

She said: “You only said that to satisfy your desire since you will go back to your religion. If you are truthful and will leave Islam, then eat some pork.” So he ate some pork. She again said: “Drink some alcohol.” So he drank.

When the alcohol flowed through his body, he approached her. She entered the house and closed the door, then said, “Go to the roof, so that when my father comes he can marry me to you.”

He went to the roof, and on the way, his foot slipped, and he fell and died.

The lady then went out and wrapped him in a torn casket. When her father came, she told him the whole story, so at nightfall, he went and threw him in the street.

His story became well-known among the people, and he was then thrown in a garbage bin.

This is the kind of danger lust can bring!

• Lust can lead to Kufr

Just like the Mu’azin, the one who lusts after someone will strive to reach the peak of their lust by all available means. Perhaps they would even resort to win the one they lust immorally.

This is a huge calamity!

• It makes one forget Allah

Among the dangers of lust is that it makes one to fully get involved with the creation in neglect of the creator.

The love one has for Allah Almighty should overcome any other love. It means abandon whatever will make you go against Allah. But lust won’t allow you. It is already driving a lot of people so mad that they think of their desires to be superior to that of Allah’s own.

May Allah protect us!

• Lust is also self-distracting

Lust is so distracting that people tend to lose their religion and joy of life.

Because there will be separation from Allah, hence no time to please Him, leading to distraction. As you won’t even have time for your wellbeing as well.

Lust is self-distractive!

• Lust is a good destroyer of reputation

The one who is lustful harms his own status among people. Such a person’s story will be mentioned by everyone and the people will transmit the story to one another with pleasure and perhaps rejoice at his misfortune.

Further, perhaps they would fabricate things against him in order to beautify the story and make it more scandalous. They might even accuse the person of illicit acts

• Lust might lead to murder and other grievous crimes

How many lives has lust taken already? People go to extremes of killing just due to their lustful desires.

How many blessings have lust carried away? How many individuals of high statuses had their statuses lowered? How many people have been corrupted by it?

There is no strength or might except through Allah.

• Lust makes one’s life a sour one without good ending

A lustful person might not receive divine aid to have a good ending.

Among the evils of lust is that the lustful person might not be given divine aid to have a good ending unless Allah the Exalted forgive the person in His mercy.

May Allah the Exalted forgive us!

• Lust might ruin one’s intellect.

The lustful person is always thinking about their lover and they cannot benefit from their intellect, and cannot benefit anyone else.

Lust is more dangerous than we thought. You look at someone with lustful intent. You assume that what you are thinking is only known to you alone. Your spouse has no idea; people around you don’t know either. Allah is always watching.

If you look at people of the opposite sex with lustful intention, please stop. It’s dangerous.

May Allah The Exalted protect us from the dangers of lust.

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