7⃣. It frees the heart from the captivity of desire, as the true captive is the captive to his own desires and passions. When desire and passion capture the hea

8⃣. It opens up for him the ways and doors to knowledge, and facilitates its means for him, and that is due to the light of the heart. When it is illuminated, the reality of information appear in it, and are revealed to him quickly, and he can move from one piece of information to another. And whoever sends his sight to something that is not good, his heart will be troubled, and it will darken, and the door of knowledge and its ways will be closed to him. 9⃣. It strengthens, increases, and stabilizes his mind. The act of gazing and sending one's sight only happens due to a lack of sound judgement, recklessness, and failure to consider the consequences. It is the responsibility of the mind to observe the consequences. If the one who sends his sight knew the consequences of his gaze, he would not have done it. 🔟. It frees the heart from the drunkenness of desire and the slumber of heedlessness. The act of gazing leads to the strengthening of heedlessness towards Allāh and the Afterlife, and plunges one into the drunkenness of infatuation. As Allāh, the Exalted, said regarding the lovers of images: “By your life, they were blindly wandering in their intoxication.” [Sūrah Al-Ḥijr 72] Thus, a gaze is like a cup of wine, and infatuation is the drunkenness caused by it. [Rawḍhat Al-Muḥibbīn (1/153)] Benefitted from Abū Suhail ’Abdullāh Al-Imām https://t.me/Alquut