Hijab — Page 119
119 gazes will automatically hinder unrestricted get togethers. The command ‘not to look at indecencies’ also includes not watching obscene and useless (Laghu’v) films. Those who do will also be stopped. It is also required that one should not sit with those who in the name of freedom will take interest in indecent conversation. They share their own stories and invite others to do the same. Men and women should not talk to each other through Skype or Facebook, etc. , look at each other’s face, nor make these things a means of developing relationships with each other. This is because Allah the Almighty says that all manifest and hidden indecencies will lead you to be overwhelmed by irrepressible desires and temptations, thus diminishing your ability to reason and contemplate, and ultimately you will breach the injunction of Allah the Almighty and become the recipient of His displeasure. ” (Friday Sermon, delivered August 2, 2013 at Baitul Futuh, London, Al-Fazl International, August 23, 2013) Huzoor Anwar atba has in many of his sermons declared the mounting obscenity in society as extremely dangerous for human morality and thus advised to adopt the Islamic injunction of Ghadd-e-Basar or “lowering one’s gaze”. In one of his addresses, he remarked: “As I have mentioned earlier, dress is becoming increasingly immodest. Furthermore, such advertisements are given on large billboards, TV, Internet and even in newspapers that compel decent people to lower their eyes when they see them. This all happens in the name of modernity. In any case, as I have said, Zeenat (beauty and elegance) now has taken the form of obscenity. In other words, this is nothing but proliferation of obscenity and shamelessness in the name of [celebrating] beauty and elegance. ” (Address to Ladies, Jalsa Salana Germany, June 29, 2013, at Calsurvoy, Al-Fazl International, October 18, 2013)