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               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
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