31 Tusa'ir in the original is from se 'ar. a disease in the camel's neck clue to which it keeps its face turned to one side. The idiom implies the attitude of a person who shows arrogance and vanity, turns his face away and treats others with scant respect.
32 Mukhtal in the original implies a person who has an over-high opinion of himself, and fakhur is the one who boasts of his superiority over others. A man becomes haughty and arrogant and vain in his gait only when he is puffed up with pride, and wants that others should feel his superiority.
33 According to some commentators it means this: 'Walk neither fast nor slow but at a moderate pace :" but the context shows that here the pace or the rate of walking is not the question. There is nothing morally wrong with a fast or a slow pace in itself, nor can there be a rule made for it. When a man is in a hurry. he has to walk fast, and there is nothing wrong if one walks slow when walking for pleasure. Even if there is a standard for the moderate pace, it cannot be made a law for every person at aII times. What is actually meant by this is to reform the state of the self under which a person walks haughtily. The haughtiness and arrogance of a person inevitably manifests itself in his gait and style of walking, which shows the state of his mind and also the cause of his pride and haughtiness. Wealth, authority, beauty. knowledge, power and such other things cause a man to became proud and vain, and each of these gives him a special style of gait. Contrary to this, manifestation of humility in the gait is also the result of one or the other morbid mental state. Sometimes the hidden conceit of the self of a man takes on the form of ostentatious humility, piety and godliness and this is shown by his gait; and sometimes man really feels so embittered by the frustrations of the world that he adopts a sick man's gait. What Luqman means to say is this: "Avoid these states of the mind and self and walk the gait of a simple, honest and noble person, which neither shows any vanity and haughtiness nor weakness nor ostentatious piety and humility."
The taste of the Holy Prophet's great Companions in this regard can be judged from a few instances. When Hadrat Umar once saw a man walking with his head hung down, he shouted out to him, saying, "walk with your head raised up. Islam is not sick. "He saw another person walking like a weak, sick man, and said, wretch! Do not sully our religion! " Both these incidents show that in the sight of Hadrat 'Umar religious piety did not at aII require that one should walk cautiously. like the sick man and show undue humility by one's gait. Whenever he saw a Muslim walking such a gait, he would have the apprehension that it would misrepresent Islam and would depress the other Muslims. A similar incident was once met with by Hadrat 'A'ishah. She saw a person walking as if run down and exhausted. She asked what was the matter. It was said, 'He is one of the reciters of the Qur'an (i.e. a person who remains engaged in reciting and teaching the Qur'an and in worship)." At this she said, 'Umar was the chief of the reciters of the Qur'an, but as it was he would walk with a firm foot, and he would speak with force and strength, and he would give a good beating if he had to." (For further explanation. see E.N. 43 of Bani Isra'il and E.N. 79 of AI-Furqan).
سورة لُقْمٰن حاشیہ نمبر :31
اصل الفاظ ہیں لَا تُصَعِّرْ خَدَّکَ لِلنَّاسِ ۔ صَعَر عربی زبان میں ایک بیماری کو کہتے ہیں جو اونٹ کی گردن میں ہوتی ہے اور اس کی وجہ سے اونٹ اپنا منہ ہر وقت ایک ہی طرف پھیرے رکھتا ہے ۔ اس سے محاورہ نکلا فلان صعّر خدّہ ، فلاں شخص نے اونٹ کی طرح اپنا کلا پھیر لیا یعنی تکبر کے ساتھ پیش آیا اور منہ پھیر کر بات کی ۔ اسی کے متعلق قبیلۂ تغلب کا ایک شاعر عمرو بن حی کہتا ہے ،
وکنّا اذا الجبار صَعَّر خَدَّ ٭ اقمنَا لہ من میْلہ فتقوّ مَا
ہم ایسے تھے کہ جب کبھی کسی جبار نے ہم سے بات کی تو ہم نے اس کی ٹیڑھ ایسی نکالی کہ وہ سیدھا ہو گیا ۔
سورة لُقْمٰن حاشیہ نمبر :32
اصل الفاظ ہیں مختال اور فخور ۔ مختال کے معنی ہیں وہ شخص جو اپنی دانست میں اپنے آپ کو بڑی چیز سمجھتا ہو ۔ اور فخور اس کو کہتے ہیں جو اپنی بڑائی کا دوسروں پر اظہار کرے ۔ آدمی چال میں اکڑ اور اتراہٹ اور تبختر کی شان لازماً اسی وقت پیدا ہوتی ہے جب اس کے دماغ میں تکبر کی ہوا بھر جاتی ہے اور وہ چاہتا ہے کہ دوسروں کو اپنی بڑائی محسوس کرائے ۔
