What is the ruling on lowering the gaze?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
This person is asking about lowering the gaze from images and from things that are enticing.
Answer:
Well,[An-Nur 24:30] what is it? He does not close his eyes, but he lowers his gaze, turning his sight away from the enticing thing. As for closing the eyes, that is not what Allah commanded us to do. He did not say, "Tell the believers to close their eyes." He said, "Lower their gaze." Lower their gaze from what they see, from their eyes. They lower their gaze from their eyes, but they keep them open, because they need to look. So they were not commanded to close their eyes; rather, they were commanded to lower their gaze from what is forbidden. Yes.
This person is asking about lowering the gaze from images and from things that are enticing.
Answer:
Well,
Tell the believing men to reduce [some] of their vision
قُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم غض البصر؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.