1-Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘Avoid sitting in the ways.’ The blessed Companions رَضِیَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُم humbly said: ‘There is no way out of it as these are our sitting places where we have talks.’ The Beloved Rasool
صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘If you must sit there, then fulfil the rights of the way.’ The blessed companions said: ‘What are the rights of the way?’ Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘Lowering the gazes, removing the harmful things, answering Salam, enjoining good and forbidding evil.’ (Bukhari, vol. 2, pp. 132, Hadees 2465)

2-The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: ‘You must lower your gaze and protect your private parts, straighten your face otherwise Allah  عَزَّوَجَلَّ will disfigure your faces. (Mu’jam-ul-Kabeer, vol. 8, pp. 208, Hadees 7840)

3-The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: After you have cast a gaze, do not cast the second gaze (i.e. if you suddenly cast an unintentional gaze at a woman then turn your eyes away instantly and do not look again) because the first gaze is permissible but the second is impermissible. (Abu Da’wood, vol. 2, pp. 358, Hadees 2149)

ہر گھڑی شرم و حیا سے بس رہے نیچی نظر                پیکر شرم و حیا بن کر رہوں آقا مُدام

What does first gaze mean?

Dear Islamic brothers! Some unwise people describe the above-mentioned 3^rd blessed Hadees مَعَاذَاللہ عَزَّوَجَلَّ like this: Since the first gaze is exempted. Therefore they don’t turn away their first gaze and continuously commit unlawful gazing. Whereas only that first gaze is exempted which falls on woman unintentionally and was removed immediately; even the first gaze made intentionally is impermissible and the act leading to Hell. Commenting on the blessed Hadees, Hakeem-ul-Ummat Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: ‘First gaze refers to that one which falls on any strange (non-mahram) woman unintentionally and the second gaze refers to the one that falls intentionally. If one continues watching in a first gaze then it will be regarded as the second gaze and it will be a sinful act.’

(Mirat-ul-Manajih, vol. 5, pp. 17)