“People, who do not protect their vision, face many problems like losing interest in prayers, evil thoughts, muddle-headedness, masturbation, psychological troubles, and repulsiveness from good deeds, attraction in ill feats, talking with self in loneliness, false assumptions, imaginary marriage and sexual diseases/ disorders.”
Protection of Vision: Protect your vision. Impudicity causes great troubles. While walking, our Holy Prophet (May peace be upon him) always used to keep his eyes down. He never even used to look on the face of the person he would speak to. People, who do not protect their vision, face many problems like losing interest in prayers, evil thoughts, muddle-headedness, masturbation, psychological troubles, and repulsiveness from good deeds, attraction in ill feats, talking with self in loneliness, false assumptions, imaginary marriage and sexual diseases/ disorders. Forgetfulness, absentmindedness, inability to recall names, irritation of eyes, itchiness, twinge, tiredness of eyes, watering eyes and heaviness are commonly faced by those who do not guard their sight. If a person keeps his vision protected, he is not only saved from numerous problems but his faith is also strengthened. In Surah e Noor, Allah Almighty initially addresses Muslim men to protect their vision and in the later part he ordered the same for Momin women. Evil which Satan can get done through humans’ eyes is far greater than other parts of the body. Sight is such a weapon which injures both the hunter and the prey. Our Holy Prophet (May peace be upon him) demanded two things from Muslims and assured them with Jannah. First being protection of eyes and secondly protection of private parts. Protection of one’s private parts is only possible when vision is under control and eyes are protected. Food and its utensils: After having your meal lick your fingers, properly clean and wash the utensil. Quantity of food should never be more than what you cannot consume. Traditionally, our foods are rich and oily. Most of us eat less and waste more of such foods. People take excessive oil in their plates but neither do they neither eat it nor properly clean the utensil. Thus such people abuse the blessings of Almighty. Even womenfolk at our homes do not pay attention to this important Sunnah. In most homes, utensils are accumulated and cleaned later. Obviously, as long as these utensils are not cleaned, Satan will continue exploring them. A utensil accurse when Satan touches it. Whereas when a person cleans and washes a utensil immediately, it prays to Almighty for him saying: ‘O my lord, save this person from the fire of hell, the way he has saved me from Satan’. From economical perspective, a utensil so cleaned not only saves time, efforts and soap but also keeps one safe from many evils. It prevents women from getting skin diseases which are caused due to allergy from dirty utensils lying for long time. Similarly, people who take food while standing suffer from mental stress, depression, sadness and similar psychological and digestive problems. Dressing and way of life: Our Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) always used dress up in loose clothes. In present modern and developed world people prefer to put on loose clothing after having tried tighter attires in the recent past. People who wear tight clothes face problems and complications which they are unaware of. Today where clothes are getting shrunk, so are the utensils and hearts. Dress is reflection of one’s personality. Wearing of jeans and tight dresses has adverse effects on the sensitivity system of a body. Continued use of such dresses makes it prone to skin diseases, physical ailments, tiredness, disturbance of mental peace and genetic impediments. Men and women who wear tight dresses are likely to endure more sexual problems as compared to those habitual of loose clothes. Rubbing effect due to movements while wearing tight dresses, causes frequent arousal and thus a person might likely get ill due to various sexual diseases like blennorrhagia, spermatorrhoea etc. Similarly women are also endangered by sicknesses like leucorrhoea, breast cancer and other sexual problems. A person who wears tight clothes also becomes narrow minded.
