What is the meaning of "lowering the gaze"?
Lowering the gaze means restraining it and preventing it from lingering in contemplation and observation. This includes lowering the gaze from people's private parts (awrah), from the adornment of non- women, from people's homes and what their doors conceal, and from people's possessions and belongings. It has numerous benefits, including: obeying Allah's command, preventing the poisoned arrow of lust from reaching the heart, fostering intimacy with Allah and strengthening the heart, bestowing light upon the heart and true insight, endowing the heart with steadfastness and courage, blocking the devil's entry, and freeing the heart to ponder its own welfare.
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