صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

This account demonstrates the profound piety of our pious predecessors رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ. These blessed personalities would readily accept worldly loss for the sake of benefit in the Hereafter, yet they would never compromise their Hereafter for worldly gain.

As is evident from the narrated account, the close friend (walī) of Allah, Sayyidunā Yūnus b. Yūsuf رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه, was prepared to lose his eyesight but would not, under any circumstances, allow his eyes to be used in disobedience to Allah Almighty. May Allah, for the sake of these pious individuals, grant us the ability to refrain from unlawful gazes, protect every limb from sin, and especially to apply the Qufl-e-Madinah (a spiritual 'lock' to prevent the body from sinning) to our eyes.

اٰمِیْنْ بِجَاہِ خاتَمِ النَّبِیّٖن صلَّی اللہُ عَلَیْہ ِوَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

The Importance of the Gaze

Regrettably, just as an individual can be reckless in speech, so too can they be reckless with their gaze, often without realising that looking is also an act that can earn one either reward or punishment. For instance, if one looks at their mother with love, they receive the reward of an accepted Hajj. Conversely, if one looks at a non-maḥram with lust, they become deserving of the punishment of Hell, because looking at a non-maḥram woman is not the act of a righteous human, but of the Devil. As narrated from Sayyidunā ꜤAbdullāh ibn MasꜤūd رَضِیَ اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَنْہُ that the Prophetصَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم  said:

اَلْمَرْاَةُ عَوْرَةٌ فَاِذَا خَرَجَتْ اِسْتَشْرَفَهَا الشَّيْطَانُ+

A woman is Ꜥawrah (i.e., something to be concealed). When she goes