Day 23: “Lower your Gaze. Clear your Mind”

🌙 Ramadan Reminders: Day 2⃣3⃣🌙
“ Lower your Gaze, Clear your mind “

Your eyes 👓are a filter 🌈to your ❤heart.

Just like a camera lens📷, once an image is processed in the brain, its immediately stored.

And everything we 👀see, whether its a scenic sight , a coffeebook 📔we are flipping through, a billboard of a half-naked 👙model, or a movie 🎬filled with graphic violence…. all of it is stored in our hard 💽drive.

And its very difficult to clear, erase and reformat.

All the images we see each day, thousands of them, will have an 📌affect. They may cause us to become de-sensitized 🆘to things we would otherwise find offensive like 🔞nudity, ☣violence, ♒blasphemy, etc. They have caused our hearts to become hardened

That is why our ☝🏼Creator, who knows us better than we know 👩🏻‍🌾👮🏽‍♂ourselves, commanded us to:
{ قُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ وَيَحْفَظُوا فُرُوجَهُمْ ذَلِكَ أَزْكَى لَهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا يَصْنَعُونَ
“Tell the believers to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden things), and protect their private 💃🏻parts (from illegal sexual acts). That is more purer 💖for them And Allah is Aware of what they do ” [24:30]

[Credit: Safa A, Islamqa]