Concealing or displaying one’s home follows from this. Allah Most High says:

“He hides himself from the people because of the bad news he has received,” to the end of the verse.

Likewise, the owner of a miserly, wicked soul has buried it within his body, folded in upon itself. Thus, at death, it is pulled from his body as a skewer is pulled from wet wool. By contrast, the righteous, God-fearing, pure soul, which its owner has purified so that it has risen, expanded, and grown in dignity and nobility, flows out of the body at death like a drop from the mouth of a waterskin, or slips out like a hair from dough.

Ibn ʿAbbās said:

“A good deed brings light to the heart, radiance to the face, strength to the body, abundance in provision, and love in the hearts of people. An evil deed brings darkness to the heart, blackness to the face, weakness to the body, scarcity in provision, and hatred in the hearts of people.”

Allah Most High says:

“And the good land,” to the end of the verse.

This illustrates the miser and the one who spends. He says:

“Whoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his heart,” to the end of the verse.

He also says:

“Allah is the Guardian of those who believe,” to the end of the verse.

He also said to him, in the context of accusations of sexual immorality and the condemnation of those who wish to spread it among the believers and those who speak without knowledge:

“Were it not for Allah’s grace and mercy upon you, not one of you would ever have become pure,” to the end of the verse.

He thus made clear that purification is attained only by abandoning sexual immorality. Hence He says:

“Tell the believing men to lower their gaze,” to the end of the verse.

This is because refraining from evil deeds is itself an act of the soul: it knows that evil deeds are blameworthy and that committing them is hateful. A person struggles against his soul when it urges him toward them, if he believes in the Book of