Looking into People’s Houses

This is 2nd article from the same book "Prohibition Taken too Lightly".
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Looking into People’s Houses
Allah says:
“O you who believe! Enter not houses other than your own until you have sought permission and greeted those in them.”
Surah An-Noor 24:27
The Prophet (PBUH) explained that the reason why permission was to be sought was for fear that the person seeking to enter might see something private in the house: “The rule of seeking permission has been established for the sake of (not) seeing.”
Nowadays when houses and building are too close to one another or even attached and doors and windows face one another the possibility of neighbors seeing one another has increased greatly. Many people do not lower their gaze and some of those who live on higher floors may deliberately look down from their roofs and windows into neighboring homes that are lower than their own. This is an act of betrayal and an invasion of their neighbors’ privacy as well as being the way that leads to Haaram deeds. A great deal of misery and trouble has resulted from this and that fact that the Shari’aah counts the eye of the one who spies as worthless is sufficient proof of the seriousness of the matter. The Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever looks into somebody’s house without their permission it is permissible for them to poke his eye out.” According to another report he said: “Poke out his eyes and there will be no penalty or retribution.”