Tafsir for verse: 23:3
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمۡ عَنِ ٱللَّغۡوِ مُعۡرِضُونَ ٣ ﴿3﴾
3and who keep themselves away from vain things,
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Commentary
Laghw: that which does not concern you of speech or action, such as play and jest, and what good character necessitates to be discarded and rejected. It means that they are occupied with seriousness that distracts them from jesting.
When He described them as humble in prayer, He followed it with the description of turning away from laghw, to combine for them the difficult actions and abstentions upon the souls, which are the two foundations of the structure of obligation.
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