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Ethical Principles of Social Activity … Z.S Hosseini et al / (101
seeks to approach it; If the “Say to the believing
ground for sin is provided for men that they should
him outside, he will not refrain lower their gaze and
from it. (Gholami, 2012: 112-114) guard their modesty:
This is where a lustful look that will make for
can lead to misery and ruin. greater purity for them:
Therefore, we read in a hadith And Allah is well
from Imam Sadiq: acquainted with all that
“Look after look sows they do”.
the seed of lust in the “And say to the
heart and it is enough believing women that
to draw the viewer to they should lower their
sedition”. (Saduq, 1992, gaze and guard their
Vol. 4: 18) modesty; that they should
not display their beauty
Because the lustful look at a and ornaments except
non-mahram man or woman is what (must ordinarily)
one of the arrows of the devil appear thereof; that
(Ibid) and sows the seed of lust they should draw their
in the heart; (Majlisi, 2006, veils over their bosoms
Vol. 14: 325) And how many and not display their
perversions and crimes that beauty except to their
happen through one look has husbands, their fathers,
fallen. their husband's fathers,
Thus, the Quran instructs their sons, their husbands'
Muslim men and women look sons, their brothers or
to maintain their:
their brothers' sons, or
their sisters' sons, or
