Page 101 - Pure Life 26
P. 101
(
/
100 International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (26): 91-106, Spring 2021
Adultery is also strongly the gaze focused on the
condemned in verses and beautiful face of a woman,
hadiths and the painful punishments awakens the pleasure-seeking
of hell are promised to it. It is power of the man and the mind
also stated in the narration: begins to visualize and quickly
“Adultery darkens the develops the physical characteristics
human face and inherits of the person in question in the
poverty; it shortens his brain; Walking position, eye
life, cuts off his view, lips, limbs, clothes, etc;
sustenance and takes and a complete picture of the
away his honor, and visible and hidden characteristics
brings him closer to of the woman is transmitted to
divine harshness and the brain and the brain
humiliates his owner”. connects them like a computer
(Saduq, 1992, Vol. 4: and creates the image she wants.
266; Attributed to Imam In this case, the viewer has
Ridha, 1985: 275) no physical contact with what
he sees; but the mind in the
Principle 8. Avoid Exposure world of his imagination can
to Lustful Looks relate to what he has seen as
Controlling lustful gazes is one he wishes.
of the grounds for strengthening In such a state, the human
modesty in society, and mind suffers from unwanted
according to some writers, occupation, and the senses are
“the cornerstone of many slightly disturbed, and in the
illegitimate relationships is a world of their illusions and
lustful gaze; because the fantasies, it makes any use of
sensual gaze, in other words, it, and in the external world it