Advice for one who is afflicted with looking at what is forbidden
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What do you advise one who is afflicted with looking at what is forbidden? He repents after every time he disobeys Allah and resolves not to return to it, but he does return. What is your advice for him?
Answer:
Our advice to him is in two matters. First, that he does not abandon repentance. He repents to Allah, even if the sin repeats from him, he repents and does not despair of the mercy of Allah. The second thing is that he lowers his gaze, acting in accordance with His saying, “Say,” and His saying, the Exalted:[An-Nur 24:30] their private parts. And a third matter is that he avoids the causes of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).
He does not go to the places where there is exposure and where there are women who are uncovered and seductive. He avoids the places of fitnah. He does not go to them and does not mix with women. If he is in a mixed workplace, he distances himself from this job and requests a transfer to another job far from fitnah. He works on the protective causes. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What do you advise one who is afflicted with looking at what is forbidden? He repents after every time he disobeys Allah and resolves not to return to it, but he does return. What is your advice for him?
Answer:
Our advice to him is in two matters. First, that he does not abandon repentance. He repents to Allah, even if the sin repeats from him, he repents and does not despair of the mercy of Allah. The second thing is that he lowers his gaze, acting in accordance with His saying, “Say,” and His saying, the Exalted:
Tell the believing men to reduce [some] of their vision and guard
قُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ وَيَحْفَظُواHe does not go to the places where there is exposure and where there are women who are uncovered and seductive. He avoids the places of fitnah. He does not go to them and does not mix with women. If he is in a mixed workplace, he distances himself from this job and requests a transfer to another job far from fitnah. He works on the protective causes. Yes.
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