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Spiritual Disease and Its Cure4 min readViewed 3 times

The evH consequences of the passionate desire to look at illegal pictures


We conclude this book with a detailed chapter about the present and the future evil consequences of looking at unlawful pictures, or looking at women' s unveiled faces. It corrupts the heart, and if the heart is corrupted, all one's willpower, words and actions would become corrupted, and so one ' s faith would also be affected, if not corrupted. Allah ~ mentioned this disease, with regards to the people of Lut and women. He ~ has informed us of the passionate desire of the King ' s wife for Prophet Yusuf ~ \. He ~ described the way she sought to tempt Yusuf ~\, and the manner Yusuf ~\ withheld himself with patience, abstinence and fear of Allah, and indeed it was Allah ~ Who helped him overcome his test, because it was surely a very difficult trial for human patience, alone. The execution of an act depends on one's motivation and the absence of any obstacle. The motive in Yusuf's case was very powerful for different reasons: First, Allah ~ instilled in man's nature an inclination towards women, just as a thirsty person is drawn to water, and a hungry person to food, to the extent that many people could be patient regarding hunger and thirst yet not women, however this is not rebuked if the inclination is lawful (to one's wife, for example). Rather, it is praised, as in the Hadith of Anas 4, who reported that the Prophet ~ said: "Perfume and women have been made dear to me in this world. I can be patient about hunger and thirst, but cannot be patient about them." 1 Second, the fact that Yusuf ~ \ was a young man, and the passion of the youth is very strong. Third, Yusuf ~ \ was celibate. He had no wife or slave-girl to relieve his powerful desire for women. Fourth, Yusuf ~\ was in another country, where a stranger could more easily have satisfied his sexual desire in a manner, which he could not have been able do in his own country, among his family and relatives. Fifth, the woman who seduced him had both status and beauty, and each of these qualities is a strong incentive to accept her offer. Sixth, the woman was willing and had no objection. As many people's desire for women is impeded by women's objections, as they feel humiliated in asking them. However, other people's desires increase with women's refusal, as they feel more attracted by those women's soft manner, m rejecting their offer! Seventh, it was the king's wife who asked him, tempted him and made the effort to seduce him, so she spared him all efforts to show his desire for her. Eighth, Yusuf ~1 was in her place, under her sovereignty and rule; for it was feared that if he refused her offer, she might harm him. Ninth, there was no worry that she, or anyone from her side, might denounce him, because she was the one who desired him, as she locked all the doors behind them. Tenth, he was publicly seen as her slave in her castle; he used to enter, go out and be present with her, and no one ever rebuked him. Their close company strengthened her desire for him, so this became one of the biggest incentives . It used to be said to a noble Arab woman (in the pre-Islamic era): "What incited you to commit adultery?" She replied: "The closeness of the man's bed and the many secrets between us." Eleventh, she sought the help of her maids to tempt him, but he sought the Allah's Help against them, saying: ( Unless you turn away their plot from me, I will feel inclined towards them and be one of the ignorant ones.)1 Twelfth, she threatened him with imprisonment and disgrace, and this was a type of coercion, with which the incentive of passion got stronger as he had to try to avoid being detained and disgraced. Thirteenth, the woman's husband (the King) never showed any sense of honour or pride in separating his wife from Yusuf ~1. Rather, the best he could say was: ( 0 Yusuf, turn away from this!), and to the woman: ( Ask forgiveness for your sin, verily you were of the sinful.) The king certainly lacked self-respect. Despite that there were all these incentives, Yusuf ~I chose to please Allah ~. Alone. His love and fear of Allah made him choose prison rather than commit fornication: (He said: O my Lord! Prison is dearer to me than that to which they invite me.)2 Yusuf ~ 1 knew that it was in his ability to keep himself away from her invitation, and that if his Lord did not save him from their temptations, he would have felt inclined towards them, as this is in his nature as a man. Yusuf's words showed his perfect knowledge of his Lord and of himself.


I Recorded by An-Nassai in the book, "Conduct towards Women concerning Marriage", chapter I, Ahmad in his Musnad (3 / 128, 199, 285). I Surat Yusuf, Verse 33 2 Surat Yusuf, Verse 33 .

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Chapters (63)
  1. 1Supplication
  2. 2Relying on the Mercy, Forgiveness and Generosity of Allah
  3. 3Self-Deception
  4. 4The difference between (having) a good opinion and being deceived
  5. 5Hope
  6. 6The harm caused by sins and misdeeds
  7. 7The effect of sins
  8. 8Sins produce other sins
  9. 9Sins become a custom
  10. 10The sin is the cause for disgrace from Allah
  11. 11The misfortunes resulting from sins and wrongdoings
  12. 12Sins cause disgrace
  13. 13A sinner comes under the Curse of the Messenger of Allah ~ because of his own sins
  14. 14Sins deprive the sinner of the benefit of the Prophet's supplication
  15. 16Other effects of sins and misdeeds
  16. 17The Punishments for Sins 2
  17. 17The punishments for sins
  18. 18Sins weaken the heart
  19. 19Sins may lead a person to become forgotten by Allah ~
  20. 20Sins take a person out from the scope of lhsan
  21. 21Sins deprive a person of the protection of Allah ~ -
  22. 22Sins weaken the course of the heart towards Allah and the Last Day
  23. 23Sins hold back the Blessings of Allah ~ (to come) and incite His Anger
  24. 24Allah ~ instils terror and fear in the hearts of sinners
  25. 25Sins draw one's heart away from righteousness
  26. 26Sins darken the heart
  27. 27Sins disgrace the self
  28. 28Sins allow a sinner to become a prisoner of the devil
  29. 29Sins result in losing one's status before Allah and before His Creation
  30. 30Sins deny sinners all words or titles of praise and honour
  31. 31Sins have the effect of reducing one's intellect
  32. 32Sins lead to severing the tie with Allah
  33. 33Sins erase all benedictions
  34. 34Sins cast a sinner down to a very low state
  35. 35Sins prevent a sinner from perceiving his/her own benefits
  36. 36Sins support the devils against the sinner
  37. 37Sins make the sinner neglect himself
  38. 38Legal Islamic punishment
  39. 39Punishments of sins are either legislated or divinely decreed by Allah
  40. 40Punishments which Allah ~ has assigned for sins
  41. 41The degree of punishment differs according to the type of sin and its effect of corruption
  42. 42Major and minor sins
  43. 43Worshipping Allah• Alone
  44. 44Types of polytheism
  45. 45Another aspect of polytheism is in worship
  46. 46Polytheism in taking oaths
  47. 47The reality of polytheism
  48. 48Pride is as great a sin as polytheism
  49. 49A great evil
  50. 50Tyranny and Oppression
  51. 51The evil consequences of killing
  52. 52The evil consequences of fornication
  53. 53Four ways through which sins may invade a person
  54. 54The unlawfulness of illegal sexual acts
  55. 55The punishment for homosexuality
  56. 56Types of love
  57. 57Al-Khullah (the perfect love in friendship)
  58. 58Types of love 2
  59. 59The effects of love
  60. 60Love is the basis of every religion
  61. 61The evH consequences of the passionate desire to look at illegal pictures
  62. 62Lut's people (homosexuals)
  63. 63Lust leads to polytheism