Ibn Daud - A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine

Fantasizing
Signs & Symptoms
Qur’ānic, Prophetic
& Scholarly Evidence
FANTASIZING
Reflecting on What is Prohibited Allāh says, “And do not obey those
whose hearts We have made heedless of
You reflect on things that are prohibited, such
as lustful fantasizing about the beauty of a
person one is not married to (for instance by
Our remembrance, who follow (only) their
desires and whose state is (total) loss.” [Al-
Kahf 18:28]
way of day-dreaming, gazing, glancing)
The result of your (excessive) gazing and
glancing gives rise to beauty-worship
and infatuations, etching in your heart the
impression of the ‘beloved’ or ‘admired’
As a consequence of your evil gazes, you find
that your heart and mind are always scattered
and in disarray, to such an extent that you
forget your own well-being and welfare, an
obstruction to your functioning and duties,
making you heedless and rendering you a
slave to your base desires
You think or talk about the weaknesses and
faults of others
The Prophet
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said:
“The furtive (secretive) glance is
one of the poisoned arrows of
Satan” [Al-*ākim 7875]
“The adultery of the eyes is by
looking” [%a#ī# Al-Bukhārī 6243] (i.e.
by looking at what Allāh has
forbidden)
“I fear for you the carnal desires
of your bellies and private parts”
[Musnad A#mad 19772]
“If any person peeps at you without
your permission and you poke him
with a stick and injure his eye, you
will not be blamed” [%a#ī# Al-Bukharī
6902]
“Whoever eavesdrops on the
conversation of other people when
they do not want him to listen, or
they move away from him, molten
lead will be poured into his ears on
the Day of Resurrection” [%a#ī# Al-
Bukhārī 7042]
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