The Disease Of The Eye – Part 2
Harm No.4
An Action Of Stupidity
Hazrat Hakeemul Ummah Moulana Thanwi Rahmatullahi Alaihi has said: ” Every sin is a sign of stupidity and foolishness. Anyone who commits sin, then this is a sign that there is some deficiency in his intellect. He is disobeying such a Being in whose control is our life and death, our health and sickness, peace and comfort, good and evil end. If his intellect was sound, he would never commit sin. As for the one who casts evil glances, Hazrat says that he is extremely foolish. By casting glances, he attains nothing other than restlessness in his heart. By looking at a beauty, one never attains him/her, rather gets uneasiness and the heart becomes restless when one remembers him/her. Allah Ta’laa has granted me a new aspect of knowledge. To cause inconvenience to any Muslim or to bother him in any way is HARAAM. Now that person who is casting evil glances, is he not a Muslim? Is he not causing pain to himself? Is he not causing pain to himself and making his own heart restless? Therefore, the same way it is forbidden to cause pain and harm to any Muslim, it is likewise forbidden to cause pain to one’s own heart by making it restless and uneasy.
Harm No.5
Causes Pain to the Heart
If someone says that we accept that the heart experiences grief and sorrow when looking at beauties, but grief and sorrow is also felt when protecting the eyes. A person feels regret in his saying, ” O how pretty that face may have been.” So what is the difference? One will be causing pain to the heart either way, by looking and not looking.
The answer to this is that the pain experienced by looking at the beauty is more severe than the pain felt when guarding the eyes. When a person casts evil glances at any beauty then one comes to know her shapes and features. “Her eyes are like this, her nose is like that and she has a model face..”
This grief is termed as “grief of known and recognized beauty” which is more severe and causes more restlessness and uneasiness in the heart. However, if one guards his eyes then this will be “regret of unknown and unrecognized beauty.” When a person does not look, then the regret, pain and grief will also be light and minimal. The effect of this pain and grief will fade away quickly. The sweetness of faith which one attains from the regret of not attaining the “unknown and unrecognized beauty” will be so enjoyable that it will surpass all the combined enjoyments of the world.
On the other hand, by casting evil glance and making oneself go through regret and grief of “known and recognized beauty,” the anger and wrath of Allah Ta’laa descends. As a result of this, the heart becomes restless and uneasy. One does not have a moment of contentment in the heart and life becomes bitter.
Therefore, there is a world of difference between two pains. One is a world of mercy and the other is world of curses and wrath. The difference between two grieves and pains is like the difference between Paradise and Hell-fire. Hence, the command of lowering the gaze is a great favour of Allah Ta’laa upon the believers. By making us go through the pain of “unknown and unrecognized beauty”, He saved us from the pain of “known and recognized beauty”
Just like the example of a person who gets stung by a mosquito and another gets bitten by a snake. The one who was stung by a mosquito thanks Allah Ta’laa that he was not bitten by the snake. Similarly, the pain and regret of guarding the eyes from unrecognized beauty” is like the stinging of a mosquito, and the pain and regret of “known and recognized beauty” is like the biting of a snake.”
Harm No.6
Weakness Of The Heart
By casting evil glances, the thought of that beauty continuously comes into the heart and mind. Through this, the heart is in a continuous struggle and conflict which causes it to become weak and sickly. The curse of casting evil glances is that along with the eyes, the five senses and the entire body becomes agitated.
In the commentary of the verse:
“Indeed Allah Ta’laa is fully aware of what they do”
Allamah Aaloosi (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) in his Tafseer, Ruhul Ma’ni, has mentioned four commentaries of the above mentioned verse:
- باجالة النظر – Allah Ta’laa is aware of how you turn your eyes around to cast evil glances.
- باستعمال ساءر الحواس-The one who casts evil glances uses all five senses. By using the sight, he tries to look at the unlawful beauty; he uses hearing to listen to her unlawful voice; he uses his lips to try to get an unlawful kiss; through his touch, he desires to caress the beloved; through his sense of smell, he wishes to smell the beloved’s fragrance.
- بتحريك الجوارح – Allah is fully aware of the movements of all the limbs. Allah is watching how he uses his hands, legs and other limbs in order to obtain his beloved. Whereas the perpetrator is totally unaware that Allah Ta’laa is watching his every move.
- بما يقصدون بذالك- Allah Ta’laa is fully aware of his final aim and that is fornication. This is actually an informative sentence that has a warning concealed in it, that is: “I AM FULLY AWARE OF YOUR EVERY MOVE. IF YOU DO NOT ABSTAIN, THEN THERE WILL BE A SEVERE PUNISHMENT!” Thus, in this verse, there is an indication that he will be punished if he does not repent. Casting evil glances is the first stage towards fornication and illicit sexual intercourse, in which a person becomes shameless, makes himself naked and then humiliates and degrades himself in both worlds. This is why Allah Ta’laa forbade the very beginning stage of casting evil glances. The example of this sin is like an escalator that automatically takes a person to the final stage as soon as he puts on the first step. That action whose beginning is evil, what can be expected of the end result? Due to the fact that all the limbs and five senses of the one committing evil glances becomes agitated, and the heart becomes involved in a continuous struggle filthy and evil motives, the body and heart of such a person becomes weak and sickly.
Harm No.7
Medical Harm
One physical harm of casting evil glances is that the urinary bladder becomes swollen due to which a person is compelled to repeatedly urinate
