Posted August 29, Oh, what a beautiful day: Twenty-two degrees Celsius; a clear sky; the sun passionately declaring its warmth to the land below. I put on my cap and decide to go out for a walk.
Nervously, I look down towards the cement sidewalk and walk past them. I look up, only to encounter a couple, rollerblading towards me in the most fashionable, spandex exercise gear. I fidget with my cap using it to shield myself from obscenity and continue walking. With my head down and cap covering my view, it was bound to happen some time: I walk into a lamppost and hit my head! Subhan-Allah, what a day! I get up, run home, go to my room, and close my door.
How am I expected to survive in such a filthy environment? Am I supposed to isolate myself from the society to escape such temptations? Obviously, with every trial and difficulty Allah always provides us practical defensive tools.
It is explicitly expressed in the words of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. Perhaps one saying of our beloved Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him sums it all:. Whoever forsakes it for the fear of Allah, will receive from Him Great and Gracious is He a faith, the sweetness of which he will find within his heart. Therefore, a secret lustful look at a person of opposite gender has been compared by the Prophet pbuh to an arrow from Shaytan that:.
Allah commands us: "Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their private parts; that will make for greater purity for them Perhaps the greatest secret reward of resisting the temptation is the increase in your Faith Iman , the sweetness of which could only be sensed by you! This empowering force of renewed Iman will help you suppress the desires in unimaginable ways. It will also have a remarkable impact on your character, since the heart is like a mirror and the base desires are like rust upon it.
