Loving
to Look at Impermissible Pictures is Shirk of Desire
Explained
by Shaykh Fawzan
بـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Question:
Noble Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Is loving to look at impermissible
pictures which appear on the cell phones and internet, and always desiring
this; considering as Shirk, in which the person is a slave to these pictures?
Shaykh
Fawzan: Yes. It is Shirk of desire. It is Shirk of desire because he craves
these pictures, thus they take hold of his heart, consequently he pursues them.
This is a type of minor Shirk.
Question:
The follow up question, may Allah preserve you, what is your advice with
regards to a successful remedy for the individual who has been tested with
this?
Shaykh
Fawzan: To stay far away from looking at these pictures, wherever they may be.
Stay far away from looking at them.
قُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّواْ مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ
“Tell
the believing men to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden things)”
(Soorah An-Nūr
24:30)
Therefore, he lowers his gaze and he does not look at these things.
إِنَّ السَّمْعَ وَالْبَصَرَ وَالْفُؤَادَ كُلُّ أُولَٰئِكَ كَانَ
عَنْهُ مَسْئُولًا (٣٦)
“Verily, the hearing, and the sight, and the heart, of each of those you will be questioned.” (Soorah Al-‘Isrā’ 17:36)
You
will be questioned about your sight (what you looked at) and your hearing and
your heart.
Translated
by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee
Received
via e-mail on August 5, 2020 at 9:59 PM
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