إطلاق ← حفظ
From Unrestrained to Guarded
Unrestrained → Guarded
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Qur'an
وَلَا تَقْفُ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ ۚ إِنَّ السَّمْعَ وَالْبَصَرَ وَالْفُؤَادَ كُلُّ أُولَٰئِكَ كَانَ عَنْهُ مَسْئُولًا
“And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge. Indeed, the hearing, the sight and the heart — all of these will be called to account.”
Sūrat al-Isrāʾ (17:36)
Personal Reflection
My eyes are always receiving.
My ears are always listening.
And quietly, what I allow through them begins to leave traces within me.
Not everything I can look at deserves my gaze.
Not everything I can listen to deserves a place within me.
Allah has given me these senses as a trust.
To guard them is not to close myself to the world. It is to become more intentional about what I allow the world to place inside me.
I can turn my eyes toward what reminds me of Allah.
I can let my ears become familiar with words that soften rather than harden.
I can notice what repeatedly enters me, and ask what it is becoming within me.
My senses are doors.
I want to become more careful about what I allow through them.
This is the author's own contemplation. It is not tafsīr.
Insight from Tafsīr al-Mīzān
ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī draws attention to the responsibility that accompanies the faculties Allah has given the human being.
Hearing, sight, and the fuʾād are not merely faculties through which we experience the world. They are means through which we perceive, understand, and form knowledge, and we are accountable for their use.
The verse therefore warns us not to follow what we do not truly know. What we hear is not automatically truth. What we see does not free us from the responsibility to understand rightly. And what settles within the fuʾād is not beyond accountability.
The senses are gifts, but they also carry responsibility.
To guard them is to remember that what we hear, what we see, and what we allow ourselves to follow are all part of our journey before Allah.
Tafsīr al-Mīzān — Commentary on Sūrat al-Isrāʾ (17:36)
almizan.orgGuidance from the Ahlulbayt
Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (ع) is reported to have said, in explanation of the verse concerning hearing, sight, and the heart:
يُسْأَلُ السَّمْعُ عَمَّا سَمِعَ، وَالْبَصَرُ عَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ، وَالْفُؤَادُ عَمَّا عَقَدَ عَلَيْهِ
“The hearing will be questioned about what it heard, the sight about what it looked at, and the heart about what it held to.”
— Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (ع)
al-Kāfī, Kitāb al-Īmān wa-l-Kufr
Du'a
رَبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا
“My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.”
Surah Ṭā Hā (20:114)
One step forward
Guard one door today.
Choose just one: your eyes or your ears.
Notice what you intentionally allow through it for one day.
Before looking again or continuing to listen, pause and ask:
“Do I want to give this a place within me?”
You do not need to shut out the world. Simply practice choosing what deserves your attention.
Journal Reflection
What have I been allowing through my eyes and ears lately, and what is it leaving within me?
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