النَّظَرُ

SIGHT

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The eye is the spy of the heart, and the messenger of the intellect.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 41, no. 52]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The heart is the book of the eye.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 409]

4– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Beware of futile gazes for they introduce inclinations and produce inattentiveness.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 199, no. 29]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The eyes are the snares of the devil.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 950]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Blindness is better than looking excessively.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, p. 95]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He who lets his sight loose exhausts his present moment, and he whose glances follow each other successively is in constant loss.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 38, no. 33]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Every speech that does not have the remembrance of Allah therein is vain; every silence that is not accompanied by thinking is negligence; and every look that is not occupied by careful consideration is amusement.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 92, no. 101]

9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘How many a look has brought about long regret!’
[al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 559, no. 12]

10– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Looking at a scholar is worship, looking at a just leader is worship, looking at one’s parents with affection and mercy is worship, and looking at a brother you love for the sake of Allah is worship.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 74, p. 73, no. 59]

11– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Looking at three things is worship: looking at the faces of one’s parents, at the Book
[Qur’an], and at the sea.’
[Sahifa al-Imam al-Ridha (AS), p. 90, no. 19]

12– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Every limb of man has a part in adultery: the adultery of the eye is looking
[unlawfully].’
[Jami`a al-Akhbar, p. 408, no. 1129]

13– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Lower your gazes and you will see wonders.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 41, no. 52]

14– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Whoever fills his gaze with what is prohibited, Allah will fill his eyes with fire on the Day of Judgment, unless he repents and returns.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 76, p. 334, no. 1]

15– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The anger of Allah is intensified towards a married woman who fills her eyes with
[lust for] someone other than her husband and other than those of her blood relatives
[mahram].’
[Thawab al-A'mal, p. 338, no. 1]

16– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who lowers his gaze will rest his heart.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9122]

17– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘A glance is a poisoned arrow from the arrows of Satan. He who refrains from it
[glancing] for the sake of Allah and for nothing other than Him, Allah will grant him a faith, the taste of which he will experience.’
[al-Faqih, v. 4, p. 18, no. 4969]

18– Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS), in what he wrote in answer to some queries of Muhammad b. Sinan, said, ‘Looking at the hair of veiled women with husbands, and all women besides them is prohibited, for what it arouses in men, and for what that arousal engenders in terms of corruption and embarking upon what is not permitted and not good. And also, what is similar to hair, except those women whom Allah mentions: "As for women advanced in years"
[Qur’an 24:60]…as there is no problem in looking at the hair of their like.’
[`Uyoun Akhbar al-Ridha (AS), v. 2, p. 97]

19– The Prophet (SAWA) said to Ali (AS), ‘O Ali, you are allowed the first glance, but the second is against you, not in your favour.’
[al-Faqih, v. ,4 p. 19, no. 4971]

20– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The first glance is allowed to you, but the second is against you and not in your favour. In the third lies your ruin.’
[al-Faqih, v. 3, p. 474, no. 4658]

21– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Glance after glance plants desire in the heart, and that is enough of a temptation for the onlooker.’
[al-Faqih, v. 4, p. 18, no. 4970]

22– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘If one of you sees a woman he is interested in, he should go to his wife, for she possesses whatever he saw. He should not allow the devil a path to his heart, and he should avert his eyes away from her. If he does not have a wife, he should offer two units of prayer and praise Allah a lot, and invoke blessings on the Prophet and his household, then he should ask from the grace of Allah, for He will grant him from His compassion that which will make him free from need.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 10, p. 115, no. 1]