Lower the Gaze (Strive to keep Sunnah of Nabi Sallallahu Alahi Wasallam alive)
Generally
women are of the misconception that the command to lower the gaze is restricted
to the man only, and they are free to look at men, whereas the command is for women
to lower their gazes as well. At times curiosity gets the better of us.
Especially on the occasion of a marriage, we are all too eager to get a glance
at who the bridegroom really is. What we fail to realise is that in breaking
the command of Allah Ta‘ala of lowering the gaze, we deprive ourselves of the
sweetness of Imaan. Just one glance and our hearts are captured, our minds are
thrown off balance and we lose all concentration in our acts of worship. We
need to ask ourselves whether it is worth the glance; that for a moment of
false pleasure we lose that clear communication we once enjoyed with our
creator Allah Ta‘ala? Really, we do not know that behind the lowering of our
gaze on which specific occasion lies our entry into paradise. Let us strive to
lower our gaze and raise our stage.
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