home, his wife asked him: How many women did you see? He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه remained silent. When she insisted, he    رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said, ‘I kept looking towards my toes from exiting home till returning to you.’

(Kitāb-ul-Wara’ ma’ Mawsū’aĥ Imām Ibn Abid Dunyā, vol. 1, pp. 205)

سُبحٰنَ اللہ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ! Pious bondmen of Allah don’t look here and there unnecessarily while walking, especially when they are in a crowded place lest their eye should fall at someone who is not permitted by the Sharī’aĥ to look at. This was the piety of our saints رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی. The ruling is that if you look at a woman unintentionally and avert your gaze immediately, you will not be sinful.

8.       It’s not appropriate to look at someone’s balcony or windows unnecessarily.

9.       While walking or coming up or down the stairs, make sure that your shoes do not make noise. Our Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم did not like the sound made by shoes.

10.   If two women are standing or walking on the way, do not pass them by walking in between them. It is prohibited in a blessed Ḥadīš to do so.

11.   Spitting, blowing nose, inserting a finger into the nostril, scratching the ear, removing dirt from the body with fingers,