The Treatment of Casting the Gaze and the Direction to Lower It

Question:
This man says that he is a young man suffering from the habit of looking at what is forbidden, and that he is trying to get rid of this disease, but as he sends [his questions] without success, and he is calling upon Allah to make him one who averts his gaze from what is forbidden, and he is asking you for guidance?

Answer:
It is obligatory for him to lower his gaze. If he is issuing a fatwa that permits looking at the two garments or at women, it is obligatory to lower the gaze and to strive against this matter, and to ask Allah to help you and to protect you from the evil of your self and your desires, which rush you on. Be humble in your supplication to Him. And He, the Exalted and Majestic, said: Be humble to Allah sincerely in your prostration, and at the end of the prayer before you say the closing salam, on a Friday at the hour after 'Asr, when you are waiting for the Maghrib prayer, and at other times ask your Lord, and at the end of the night be humble to Allah, asking Him to protect you from the evil of your self and the evil of your gaze, and to rectify your heart and your deeds. Be humble to Allah and be glad of good. Yes.