do not approach unlawful sexual intercourse. Indeed, it is ever an immorality and is evil as a way.» The Messenger of Allah forbade us from spying and backbiting; Allah, Exalted Glory, said: «O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.»1 The Messenger of Allah, Exalted Glory, forbade us from looking at the faults of our believing brothers and from falling short toward them.”
The Messenger of Allah, Exalted Glory, said: "Allah has cursed the one who looks at the nakedness (saw’ah) of his brother." By this, he means the one who looks at the women of his brothers.
The Messenger of Allah, Exalted Glory, said: "Indeed, an indecency (fāḥishah) is broadcast concerning a believer until it reaches a believer like him; if it reaches him, it is placed in a secure stronghold and concealed."
Thus, whoever kills, steals, commits adultery, spies, backbites the believers, looks at their women, looks at their faults, or commits any of the prohibitions, vileness, and indecencies that Allah has forbidden, has surely opposed Allah and His Messenger; and whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger is not rational.
The King said: "If we see a man who acts according to what Allah has commanded and refrains from what Allah has forbidden, performing things in their proper manner and rights, yet his interior (bāṭin) is contrary to his exterior (ẓāhir), what do we say of him?" My Master said to him: "The rational man is he whose exterior does not oppose his interior, nor does his secret oppose his public state."
The King said: "By what is the ignorant man inferred, and how is he recognized?" My Master said: "I shall strike for the King a parable by