Summary of Sunni concepts
The effect of the apparent obedience of the limbs on the heart and its inner actions
The limbs are the outlets and openings of the heart
No matter how much the limbs are used in acts of obedience, this strengthens the heart and supports it
Just as the strength of the borders contributes to the strength of the state's capital and its authority
Is it hidden how prayer brings contentment, tranquility, humility, and repentance to the heart?
Is the effect of fasting on piety, sincerity and certainty hidden?
God Almighty said
O you who have believed, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become righteous
Likewise, it is no secret that jihad for the sake of God brings about love for the afterlife
He renounced the world
Surrender to God and steadfastness in the truth
It is sufficient to explain the effect of obedience of the limbs on the lifespan of hearts
To elaborate on the effects of one obedience on the heart
It is obedience by turning a blind eye to forbidden things
This will result in the following
Firstly
The heart unites in the love of God and humanity with Him
While letting go of sight causes the heart to turn away from God and become distracted
It creates loneliness between the servant and his Lord
Secondly
It covers the heart with light
Also, releasing it causes darkness
This is why God first commanded the believing men and women to turn a blind eye
As God Almighty said
Tell the believers to lower their gazes
Then, after detailing that, he mentioned the verse of light
God is the light of the heavens and the earth
The likeness of His light is like a niche in which there is a lamp
The lamp in a bottle
The bottle is as if it were a shining star lit from a blessed olive tree, neither eastern nor western
Its oil almost glows even if it is not touched by fire
Light upon light
God guides to His light whomsoever He wills
God sets examples for people
And God is All-Knowing of all things
To indicate that the light of a person who lowers his gaze
Derived from the light and success of God Almighty
Through this light, guidance is achieved and heresies and misguidance are avoided
Thirdly, lowering one’s gaze strengthens the heart and makes it happy
He inherits an honest insight with which he distinguishes between truth and falsehood, the truthful and the false
Fourthly, it gives the heart steadfastness, courage and strength
God combines for him the authority of insight and argument with the authority of power and strength
Fifthly, it frees the heart to think about its interests and work on them
Instead of letting his gaze distract him from all of that and fall into heedlessness
Sixth and finally
Lowering one's gaze protects the heart from Satan's poisoned arrows directed at it
The devil enters his whispers into the heart with a forbidden look
It penetrates faster than the air in an empty place
He represents to him the image he is looking at and decorates it in his mind
He makes him promises and wishes, which inflames his heart with them and thus turns him away from obedience