The factors that help young people control their desires and their gaze
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What are the factors that help us young people control our desires and guard our gaze, given that these means of inviting evil and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) have become so widespread? Is there a comprehensive piece of advice on this matter?
Answer:
What is more eloquent than the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)Mishkat al-Masabih 3080 So you are young men, so strive to get married. If you are not able to marry, then practice chastity [An-Nur 24:33] Practice chastity, guard your eyes, and protect yourselves from the means of evil and stay away from them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What are the factors that help us young people control our desires and guard our gaze, given that these means of inviting evil and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) have become so widespread? Is there a comprehensive piece of advice on this matter?
Answer:
What is more eloquent than the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)
Young man, those of you who can support a wife should marry, for it keeps you from looking at strange women and preserves you from immorality
يا معشر الشباب من استطاع منكم الباءة فليتزوج فإنه أغض للبصر وأحصن للفرجBut let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty.
وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 07-01-1435هـ — af.org.sa (49:04)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.