We would strive (to catch up with him) but he did not pay attention to it.
We would strive (to catch up with him) but he did not pay attention to it.” [^5] Ibn Abbas said: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَآلِه إذا مَشى مَشْياً يُعْرَفُ أنَّهُ لَيسَ بِمَشْيِ عاجِزٍ ولا بِكَسْلانَ.
“When the Prophet of God walked, he neither walked like one lacking in strength nor like the lethargic ones.” [^6] Luqman’s Will on How to Walk We read the following in the Holy Qur’an regarding Luqman’s will to his son: وَلا تُصَعِّرْ خَدَّكَ لِلنَّاسِ وَلا تَمْشِ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَرَحًا إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتَالٍ فَخُورٍ "And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for God loveth not any arrogant boaster.” [The Holy Qur’an, Luqman 31:18] In the next verse we read: وَاقْصِدْ فِي مَشْيِكَ وَاغْضُضْ مِن صَوْتِكَ إِنَّ أَنكَرَ الْأَصْوَاتِ لَصَوْتُ الْحَمِيرِ "And be moderate in thy pace, and lower thy voice; for the harshest of sounds without doubt is the braying of the ass." [The Holy Qur’an, Luqman 31:19] We read in a tradition from the Prophet of God : مَن مَشَى عَلى الأرْضِ اخْتِيالاً لَعَنَتْهُ الأرْضُ وَمَنْ تَحْتَها وَمَن فَوقَها.
“The Earth, everyone on it and everyone in it curse whoever walks with pride on the Earth.” [^7] In another tradition recorded in Amali we read that the Prophet admonished against walking with pride and haughtiness and said: مَنْ لَبِسَ ثَوباً فاغْتَالَ فِيهِ خَسَفَ اللهُ بهِ مِن شَفِيرِ جَهَنَّمَ وَكانَ قَرينَ قارُونَ لأنَّهُ أوَّلُ مَن اخْتالَ فَخَسَفَ اللهُ بِهِ وَبِدارِه الأرْضَ. “Wboever wears a garment and gets too proud and makes a show of it, then God will make him sink into edge of Hell.
He will be the companion of Qarun (Korah), since Qarun was the first man who established haughtiness. God made him and his house sink into the earth.” ^8 We also read that Imam Sadiq said: باب اَنَّ الإيمانَ مَبثوثٌ لجوارح البدن كلها: و رِجْلاَهُ اللّتانِ يَمشييِ بهما “God has made faith incumbent upon all our body parts and has divided it amongst them.
He has made it incumbent upon our legs not to walk towards committing sins, rather to walk in ways to please God.” [^9] Witnesses on the Resurrection Day God the Almighty said in the Holy Qur’an: الْيَوْمَ نَخْتِمُ عَلَى أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَتُكَلِّمُنَا أَيْدِيهِمْ وَتَشْهَدُ أَرْجُلُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ “That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths.