Why Lowering The Gaze Should Not Be Taken Literally?
It is the knowledge of language and its idioms as used by the people of a language that one understands from a text that it is is used in a literal sense of a metaphorically or figuratively. To lower one’s gaze does not mean to lower your eyelids all the time to avoid gazing at Na Mehram. it actually means to avoid gazing at Na Mehram. this is the purpose of the injunction. To fulfill this command, one may at time lower one’s gaze or divert it avoid gazing at a Na Mehram.