So I wanted to quickly just talk about lowering the gaze. I want to take the example of one of the companions of the Prophet of Allah, his name was Tha-Alabah Ibn Abdu Rahman. He was a young man about the age of 16 and he used to always run errands for the Prophet of Allah, said them, he would send him here and he would send him there to do something for him. So one day the Prophet of Allah sent him to do something and he was walking through the city of Medina and he passed by a house with an open door. So he glanced inside and he saw a type of curtain that they used to cover the shower area and the wind blew that curtain and he saw a woman, a Muslim woman inside that was bathing and it's as if he glanced for too long or he looked for a bit too long until he saw something and then he came to his senses. So he was overtaken by an extreme feeling of guilt and hypocrisy and he said to himself a-oo the billah, the Prophet, how can I be of the companions of the Prophet so I said them, one who is close to him, who runs his errands and be so horrible as to disrespect the people's privacy. So then he says, I respect the outer of the Muslims, Allah is going to send Ayat and reveal and mention me with the hypocrites. So he feared to return to the Prophet of said them, who would tell him that he is a hypocrite so he ran away out of fear, he ran away. So the Prophet said, I'm waiting for him for hours and he waited from one prayer to the next and then he started to ask about him as the days went by and then the Prophet would ask, have you seen Tha al-Abaq and then days passed so he sent Omar bin Khattab and Salman al-Farasi to go look for him in the streets of Medina. So they came back, they said, O Prophet of Allah we search for him in the roads, the markets and the meadows and we couldn't find him. Perhaps he'll come back so the Prophet was waiting and then after a while again he said O Omar, yes Al-Maan go and look for him in the outskirts of Medina. So they went and they came to a set of mountains between Mecca and Medina where some nomads were herding their goats. So the nomads saw that they were looking for something. So they asked, are you looking for something? They said we're looking for a boy whose description is this and that. So they said perhaps you're looking for Al-Farasi, perhaps you're looking for the young man who is always crying. Omar says I don't know about that but we're looking for a boy who is this tall and this is his complexion and he looks like this and that. So then but what about this young boy you're talking about and he says on the other side of this mountain is a young man who for 40 days we hear nothing from him but crying and his stepfather. So Omar asked, one does he come down? He said he comes down when the sun sets, he comes to us, we give him a little bit of milk so he drinks it while he's mixing his tears with it meaning while he's drinking still crying and then he goes up to the mountain again while he's crying. So then Omar says how can we see him? He says one of the sun sets. So Omar hid and Salman, wa D'Allah, who they hid and when the sun set, Tha al-Wabna Abd al-Rahman wa D'Allah, who came down looking sad and dejected, his head lowered, the tears running down his face and he has lost a lot of weight. So he came to the Arab and he gave him some milk. So he takes it to bring it to his mouth and he begins to cry so much that he couldn't drink and then finally he drinks what he could and he turns to go back to the mountain. So then Omar and Salman wa D'Allah, and Omar came to him and when he saw them he was so scared, he says what do you want from me? They said the Prophet, Salman wants you. He says what does he want from me? He said I don't know. He says Allah reveal ayat about me. He says we don't know. Has Allah mentioned me with the hypocrites? He said we don't know. He says people please do not embarrass me and leave me to die alone on the side of this mountain. So they said what we won't leave you. So he struggled but they took him back to Medina and he took him to his home and he was crying harder than ever. So then Omar went and told the Prophet, so I said them we found Tha al-Wabna Abd al-Rahman. He said where did you find him? He said we found him on the side of the mountain and he is at home and now you can visit him if you like. So the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam, went and entered upon him. When he saw the Prophet, he said him he was so scared and he screamed out Ya Rasulullah and Allah, O fear ayat, has Allah revealed ayat about me? Prophet, Salam said Kenda, said no. Has Allah mentioned me with the hypocrites? Prophet, Salam said no. So then he cried and he increased in crying and the Prophet, Salam sat near him and he took his head and he put it on his blessed thigh. So then Tha al-Alaba cried and he said O Prophet of Allah, remove a head that is full of sins and transgression from your thigh. I am lesser and not deserving. And the Prophet, Salam said no. So then the Prophet, Salam asked him he said Ya Tha al-Alaba, what are you? What do you wish for? And he said I wish for the mercy of Allah subhanahu ta'ala. And he asked him then what are you afraid of? He says I am afraid of the punishment of Allah. And he says, Wa Ma'ahatat-a-Tamanna and what do you hope, what do you wish for? He says, Atamanna, that I wish for the forgiveness of Allah, as long as you are. So the Prophet, Salam then made the offer for him while he is crying, saying Astaghfir Aliya Rasulullah asked forgiveness from me, a prophet of Allah, suddenly Tha al-Alaba radi Allahan we jolted, shuk. So the Prophet, Salam, he says to the Prophet, Salam I feel as though ants are walking between my flesh and my bones, like something more, walking between my flesh and bones. So the Prophet, Salam said, O what did you do that, Ya Tha al-Alaba? Do you feel that? He said yes. He says that is death, it is coming to you. So then he kept saying the jihad Astaghfirullah, Allah, Allah, Allah, until the soul left his body. So then when he died the Prophet, Salam said, then washed him and covered him and led the prayer over him. And while they were carrying him to the cemetery, the Prophet, Salam was walking behind his body, but he was walking on the tip of his toes as if it were very, very crowded. So then Omar says to them Ya Rasulullah, tamshi ala atrafiqadamayq, when Nasir qadau sa'ulak, you're walking on the tip of your toes but the people have given you a lot of room. So he says Ya Omar, wa ihaka el Omar, may Allah have mercy on you Omar, while Allah here I do not find a place to put my foot because of how the angels are crowding me over here. Brothers and sisters in Islam, Anasirullah Allah who said that he says to the generation after the companions, you imagine certain sins to be more insignificant than a straw, something like a straw which is very insignificant. But at the time of the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam, we used to count them among those things that can destroy a man. And in this story Tha alaba, if not Abd al-Rahman wa Dallahu al-Alihu, he did something, he gazed, he took a gaze but it became so much of a weight that sin. And this is something that so many people have taken for granted, looking at images of women in magazines on television, on the internet. And people have become so used to it that they don't even think about it. How many people think of lowering their gaze from the newscaster? Do you look at the news, they watch the news, you're watching the news. Because there's a woman, where there's a lot of wake up and you're looking at her the whole time. People don't even remember to lower their gaze. It must have said that a believer treats a sin as if it were a mountain over his head that may fall on him any moment. Where a regular sinner looks at them like a fly that sat on his nose and he waved it away with his head. The believer, the sin is like a mountain that's going to fall on you any minute. As for the person who sins normally sits on your nose, you go like this and it's gone. And that's why then, lowering the gaze, things like that, people have become so used to looking at things that are haram. That's why the Prophet ﷺ said, beware of minor sins for they add on until they destroy a mountain.