It should be mentioned herein that those who isolate f r o m the society for purification of morals and training their souls, secluding themselves and supposing that they can achieve this great aim better in this way, are completely wrong. Because they actually destroy the subject of social morality, and although they avoid some vices in this way, but this is not really considered as a virtue. It looks like the one who cuts his sexual apparatus for avoiding adultery and lewdness. Although he is not tainted with unchastity, but this will not be a virtue for him.

Moreover, experience has shown that isolation and seclusion f r o m society will cause a series of moral vices such as peevishness, suspicion, vanity and conceit, and suspicion on divine predestination in man, which will be illustrated in a separate discussion in detail.

So, Islam has encouraged Moslems to social life and even large cities and recommends observance of moral principles in the heart of society to man.

Source: makarem