AssalamuAlaikum, calling out to the Muslim brother in lowering gaze challenge, and brothers from other faith if they wanted to participate.
Why we do it ?
Lowering our gaze has immense benefits, in both our personal bacher life and in a married life. But before that, our lord has commanded us to lower our gaze
(Quran 24:31)
How we can achieve this ?
- Offline :
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Always make an Intention that you’ll lower your gaze before leaving your house.
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keep low profile ie, head down, not that we hit the poles lol, but you get it.
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A Baseball cap can cut out alot of unneccesasry view while walking down the streets, cuts down inappropriate billboards, banners and other adversitements on the streets.
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Brothers with a moderate long distant eye sight can monetise their deficienct, if you remove your glasses on the streets, you’d blur most of the distant view. (Please dont try this if you have extreme eyesight that you’d hit something while walking, a mere -2.5 or -3 is sufficient ).
There are exception in when to talk to opposite genders which are in times of necessitites, such as work , airport, transactions etc.
Online :
This is very important, trust me most of the users who get constant urges is because of getting continuous exposing of women on screen, be it ads, movies, series, etc. Trust me you wouldnt find an avg or unnattractive women on screen, chances are that most of the times, you’ll be attracted to it, and everytime you’ll glimpse it will corrupt your heart,
The unrestrained glance results in the one who looks becoming attracted to what he sees, and in the imprinting of an image of what he sees in his heart. This can result in several kinds of corruption in the heart of the servant. The following are a number of them.
It has been related that the Prophet, sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, once said words to the effect:
Da’if, At-Tabarani, 8/63; Al-Hakim, Al-Mustadrak, 4/314; Ahmad, Al-Musnad, 5/264
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Dont browse without a Purpose , will saves your gaze and your time.
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Use tools which hides images for PC (Chrome Extentions):
(i) WizImage Hider
Great tool You can hide and unhide images as per your need.
(ii) HaramBlurFor Mobile :
(I) Firefox browser : Method to hide images with an Extension : (This extension blocks ads and also can
hide images)
Adblockers
Here is the full tutorial on how to add adblocks
Have any tips please feel free to add.
We should check in everyday and thrive our best to reduce and diminish it by upcoming days , In Sha Allah. If you face any troubles do let us know.
