Ḥijāb al-Marʾah wa-Libāsuhā fī al-ṢalāhIbn Taimiya

then lowers his gaze from her, Allah will place within his heart a sweetness of worship that he will taste until the Day of Resurrection,1 or so he said.

For this reason it is said:

Lowering one’s gaze from any image that one has been forbidden to behold—such as a woman or a handsome youth—yields three great benefits:

  1. The sweetness and delight of faith, which is sweeter and finer than whatever was abandoned for Allah’s sake, for “whoever leaves something for Allah, He will replace it with something better.”2

  2. Lowering the gaze brings light to the heart and sharp discernment. Concerning the people of Lot, the Exalted said, “By your life! They were wandering blindly in their intoxication” (Al-Hijr 72). Attachment to forbidden images corrupts the mind, blinds the inner sight, and intoxicates—indeed, drives mad—the heart.

After the verses commanding the lowering of the gaze, Allah, exalted is He, mentioned the Verse of Light: “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth” (Al-Nur 35).

Shah ibn Shujaʿ al-Karmani,3 whose insight was rarely mistaken, used to say:

(1) This hadith is very weak, as is the preceding one. I have documented both in al-Da'ifa, nos. 1064 and 1065. (2) I say: This is part of a hadith narrated by Ahmad with an authentic chain of transmission. (3) I say: He is one of those whose biographies are recorded in Abu Nu'aym's Hilyat al-Awliya; see vol. 10, pp. 237–238. Abu Nu'aym mentions that he was a companion of Abu Turab al-Nakhshabi, but gives no date of death.
غض بصره عنها أورث الله قلبه حلاوة عبادة يجدها إلى يوم القيامة " ١. أو كما قال ولهذا يقال: إن غض البصر عن الصورة التي ينهى عن النظر إليها: كالمرأة والأمرد الحسن يورث ذلك ثلاث فوائد جليلة القدر: إحداها: حلاوة الإيمان ولذته التي هي أحلى وأطيب مما تركه لله " فإن من ترك شيئا لله عوضه الله خيرا منه" ٢. وأما الفائدة الثانية من غض البصر: فهو يورث نور القلب والفراسة قال تعالى عن قوم لوط: {لَعَمْرُكَ إِنَّهُمْ لَفِي سَكْرَتِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ} [الحجر: ٧٢] ، فالتعلق بالصور يوجب فساد العقل وعمى البصيرة وسكر القلب بل جنونه. وذكر الله سبحانه آية النور عقيب آيات غض البصر فقال: {اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ} [النور: ٣٥] وكان شاه بن شجاع الكرماني٣ لا تخطئ له فراسة وكان يقول:
١ حديث ضعيف جدا وكذا الذي قبله وقد خرجتهما في "الضعيفة" "١٠ ٦٤ و ١٠٦٥". ٢ قلت: هذا من حديث رواه أحمد بسند صحيح. ٣ قلت: هو من رجال "الحلية" لأبي نعيم ترجم له "١٠ / ٢٣٧ – ٢٣٨" وذكر أنه كان من أصحاب أبي تراب النخشي. ولم يذكر وفاة.

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