Hadith 176

soud said to a man who looked at a woman and then visited her during her illness, ‘If your eyes had been taken away, it would have been better for you than visiting your sick one! No eye takes its share from a forbidden glance without a knot forming upon the heart from that desire, and it will not be undone except by one of two states – either by the tears of grief and regret through sincere repentance, or by attaining what was desired and looked at. And as for the one who attains his desire without repentance, his destination is the Fire, while the one who repents with tears of grief and regret, his abode is Paradise and his transfer is to the Divine Pleasure’. [194]
(The book) ‘Tafseer Al Ayyashi’ – From Safwan Al Jammal who said, I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘May my father and my mother be (sacrificed) for you-asws! The Muslim woman comes to me who knows me due to my work and I recognise her with her Islam and her love for you-asws (Imam-asws) and her Wilayah for you-asws, and there isn’t any sanctimonious one for her’. He-asws said: ‘When the Muslim woman comes to you, carry her (hire out your ride), for the Momin is a sanctimonious one (Mahram) of the Momina (believing woman)! ’ And he-asws recited this Verse: And the Momineen and the Mominaat are guardians of each other [9: 71]’. [195]
(The book) ‘Makarim Al Akhlaq’ –
It is reported from Al-Sadiq-asws having said: ‘But rather, looking at the nakedness of the Muslim is abhorred. As for the looking at nakedness of the one who isn’t a Muslim is like looking at the nakedness of the donkey’. [196]
And from him-asws having said: ‘The man cannot look at the nakedness of his brother. If he were an adversary of his, there is nothing upon him (if he looks) in the bathhouse. [197]
And from him-asws having said: ‘The thigh isn’t a private part’. [198]