Wael Ibrahim – LifeStyle #19 – Lowering the gaze

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah
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Subhanak alive Elena Ilana lantana in Naka and Ali maki My dear respected brothers and sisters in
STEM everyone. Welcome back to our lifestyle as believers as Muslims to revive some of those
forgotten manners forgotten concepts that are very essential for our lives as believers as Muslims.
Today inshallah we're going to discuss lowering the gaze for in Arabic labu baesler loved the buzzer
as a lifestyle in sha Allah for the believers. Before we move further in the light Allah remember we
		

			are broadcasting from my page while Ibrahim as well as live Dean in Pakistan, and also connect
Institute global and Kinect Institute Karachi Facebook pages, as well as the video will be uploaded
on the AWARE Academy YouTube channel so hopefully, you can check them out. I like all these pages
and subscribe to the AWARE Academy YouTube channel insha Allah while lowering the gaze is defined as
restraining Your stare, restraining your gaze from looking at that which may lead to sinful
activities. So many people have the misconceptions. Now one of the misconceptions is that lowering
the gaze means that you don't look at the hara, which is of course the common understanding of
		

			lowering the gaze, or restraining your your stare, but actually lowering the gaze is broader than
that. It's restraining your gaze from looking at anything that may lead to harm activities, which we
will explain inshallah. So number one, it can be actually a means of protecting the individual from
falling into harm, or Zina activities, that's the most common meaning of lowering the gaze is that
when you look at a woman, if you are a man, or when you are, when you look at a man, if you are a
woman, and anything attracted your attention in the sexual sense, then lowering the gaze becomes
obligatory duty. Now, I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't look at each other when we converse, or
		

			when we talk in seminar rooms, or any educational setting or in the masjid, or perhaps you knock on
the door of someone and a man open for you, if you are a lady or the vice versa. Of course, we
maintain trying to not to stare in the eyes for a longer period of time. But that doesn't mean that
we shouldn't communicate, we shouldn't talk we shouldn't look at each other so long as there is no
any thoughts that may lead to haram activity. So that's the first meaning is that lowering the gaze
means to restrain from looking at people's beauties from looking at people's our, the areas in which
a non Muslim should not look at when when you converse with. So this is the first meaning. The
		

			second one is also not to look at people houses.
		

			Not to look at people inside people's homes, where they have those valuables that are not belong to
you behind closed doors. So you're invited to visit a person and you sit in their home that you're
super, you know, curious about what they have. And what does this drawer have? What the fridge have?
And what's behind the the bedrooms? What did he say? What did he have and so on and you wanted to
know and you wanted to walk around, that's actually something disliked the when it comes to Islam,
the Islamic teaching, that's why I'm most proud of ourselves operand. Do not ever enter any homes
unless a permission is given to you. And when the command from the owners
		

			comes to for you to go back. You must go back you must abide by these, you know, commands. So you
can just go people's home and feel it's yours and walk around them and look into their stuff, excuse
me into their stuff without their permission.
		

			So it did take me a while a Imam convinced me I said lowering the gaze includes not looking at the
outlaw of the people, but also not looking at any other haram.
		

			Haram objects or haram pictures or harm imagery, and that including from refraining from
		

			Also looking at people's homes or the privacy of people homes, Pamela, also includes not to look at
people's wealth, not to look at people's wives, people's children, sometimes foreign law, we invite
each other family wise, we invite each other at home. And then you get to see the husband of that
friend of yours. And then you go home, you say How I wish my husband behaves like this. You see, the
danger of looking at people's privacy is that you start looking at what you have with with a
despondent heart.
		

			With a dissatisfied heart. You don't like what you have already on your hand. That's the danger of
staring at that which Allah does not make it halal for us, Powell. Allah subhanaw taala says in the
Quran, do not look with your eyes
		

			ambitiously at what We have bestowed on certain classes of other people. And those people sometimes
are these believers, why Allah has given the non muslims so much and he did not give us so Allah is
saying, don't look at ambitiously meaning you wanted to have what they have. Because Allah provided
for them, but did not necessarily provide the same for you. So don't look nor grieve over them. Do
not let your heart you know aches for what you don't have, and lower your wings. For the believers
meaning be kind to the believers Be courteous to the believers, this is a command given to Allah
subhanaw taala not to look at the people who Allah has given blessings over you Subhan Allah.
		

			Another thing you know, the other night I mentioned in no time, in particular, he said that the
benefits of lowering the gates like let us look at the psyche of offloading is that when you lower
the gaze, what happens in your brain, what happens in your attitude as a whole so say it says number
one, when you lower the gaze, it prevents you from the poisonous arrow of the eyes. The Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu sallam said work the stair, the stair looking at that which is haram at a
beautiful girl or a handsome boy, looking at them. That's there is an arrow from the arrows off
shaitan and Shelton as we said is not your best friend shaitan is not there to entertain you. In
		

			that journey of life of yours. Shaitan is there to drag your legs, drag your feet into haram
activities. And one of the tricks one of the most popular common tricks that shaitan is using is to
stare at the opposite gender to stare at the Haram and to enjoy the harm that can happen in real
life when you meet real life people but it also can happen on the internet through the media
* and whatnot. So be absolutely vigilant because it destroy your heart from within the
stare the lust to stare destroy the hearts may Allah protect the solely on Ronnie. So number one
benefit is it prevents you from falling into Zina. Number two it creates a heart that is devoted and
		

			focused on Allah subhanaw taala. So when you look at what Allah Subhana Allah has bestowed upon you,
instead when you look at your wife, when you look at your children, when you look at your salary
when you look at your home, and not necessarily look at everyone else's position, then it will
create that a devotion in your heart towards Allah subhanaw taala
		

			it will not distract you from what you already have. It will not distract you from your vision in
life your mission in this dunya you wanted to work you wanted to earn you wanted to provide for your
family you want also focus on on your mother without being busy with what other people have. Number
three.
		

			It creates.
		

			Sorry, it number three and actually that was supposed to be number one. It is an obedience to almost
Fanta lording the gaze is an obedience to Allah subhanaw taala and obedience is one of the meanings
of Islam. Islam means to submit to the word of Allah subhanaw taala to surrender to His commands and
to his orders and to obey Him whether you like it or not, that's that's one of the meaning of Islam.
Allah says in the Quran, called Nina Yahoo domain are bizarre to him. Why I follow falooda home tell
to the believing men to lower the gaze. As a result the private parts will be protected and tell to
the believing woman to lower their gaze. As as a result their private parts will be protected they
		

			will remain chaste. That's how Allah subhanaw taala described lowering the gaze and linked it to
protection of private thoughts in the Quran. So when you do so, it is an obedience to Allah subhanaw
taala number four it
		

			brings peace into your heart and into your mind. Why is that? So again, when you don't have those
images in your mind, you're not bombarded. You know by these flashbacks. I deal with many people who
are addicted to this imagery. And when they do so online, my brothers and sisters instead when you
say Allahu Akbar, many of them have reported to me that when they say Allah Akbar, these see these
sexual images in their brains, because the brain is now overstimulated by those haram imagery. And
as such, they become very disturbed, and there is no peace of mind anymore. They are always wanting
to go and visit these they are craving these sites, they are craving, you know, cheating, while
		

			Albula on their spouses and the like. So may Allah Subhana Allah protect us also, it brings peace of
mind, peace in the hearts, when we lower the gaze. What else there are many, many other things in
Java, it actually, it makes you distinguish between truth and falsehood. This is a big one. One lie,
this is a big one. When you watch these movies, and you see us, you know, romantic scene athma and
deja in love with each other. I love you, I love you, too. I love you three and all these romantic,
you know, verbal words that are scripted by a clever writer, to work on your emotions to work on
your brains to work on your addictive behavior. And you're watching these the visuals will have a
		

			great impact, negative or positive, by the way, but we're talking about the negative parts of it, it
will have a great impact on you. As such, you will believe that actually what's happening behind the
screens is actually a truth. So you will mix the truth with the falsehood, you will you will mix the
truth, the true stories, that actually you are living with the imaginary story in the film, or in
the media that you're watching. Whether this media or Netflix or the internet, youtube or even
*, you will have a twist of understanding of what's right, what's wrong, what's true and
what's false. So by lowering the gaze by restraining and controlling your gaze by looking at that
		

			which is halal, you have no chance to mix the truth with the false falsehood. Number. I don't know
how many number though, I hope that you're taking notes, but another point, the benefits, it creates
steadfastness, fastness in your heart, and in your mind, it immediately will be said about
willpower. This is one of the training camps, or one of the training tips that you can use it my
brothers and sisters in Islam to create is the karma steadfastness in your life. If you did not
watch the episode of Insta karma, go back to the previous episodes in sha Allah Allah to watch, but
lowering the gaze can also block shaitan from your way.
		

			What is the one workshop down from your way shaitan will have no chance to come and you know disturb
you with any thoughts of that nature because you are already you have made a peace with yourself.
You have made a conscious decision with yourself that you will never ever look at that which is
haram. And finally, between the eyes and the hearts there is a connection. Which means if you do not
control your eyes, your heart to be infected. And if your heart is infected my brothers and sisters
in Islam, the Prophet Muhammad Salah is indeed in the human body that is a piece of flesh, that if
it is sound, everything else will remain sound and pure. And if it is corrupted, everything else
		

			will turn corrupted. And that is the heart so between the eyes and the heart there is a connection
what you stare at you store here and what you store here impact here in fact the heart may Allah
grant us the right understanding my brothers and sisters in slam lowering the gaze is one of the
most challenging, you know thing that anyone can achieve. But is it impossible? No by Allah it is
doable by practice by pursuing more knowledge about the danger of letting your eyes stare at
anything here and there. Halal haram doesn't matter. You don't have principles you don't have
values. By practice, everything and anything is possible. May Allah grant us a pure heart. May Allah
		

			subhanaw taala help us to look at that which is pleasing to Him. Amin, Amin, amin, but remember love
do buzzer or lowering the gaze is one of our lifestyle as believers I hope you can adopt it as a
means of learning. Don't forget to like all the pages that I mentioned earlier while Ibrahim page
connect Institute, global and Karachi as well as live Dean and also the YouTube
		

			The YouTube channel that is broadcasting this event and that is the AWARE Academy. We'll see you
tomorrow in sha Allah with another lifestyle for the believers to follow and practice disciple all
higher and as Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi over again