Surah Anfal ayat 35 Tafsir Quran 8:35

﴿وَمَا كَانَ صَلَاتُهُمْ عِندَ الْبَيْتِ إِلَّا مُكَاءً وَتَصْدِيَةً ۚ فَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ﴾
[ الأنفال: 35]

8:35 And their prayer at the House was not except whistling and handclapping. So taste the punishment for what you disbelieved.

And their prayer at the Sacred House is nothing but whistling and hand-clapping in other words they do this in place of the prayer which they were ordered to perform — therefore taste now at Badr the chastisement for your unbelief!

Their prayer at the Sacrosanct House was simply featured in whistling and applause. Therefore, you infidels have well deserved to be put to the torment in requital of infidelity

(8:35) Their Prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and handclapping. *28 Taste, then, this chastisement for your denying the truth. *29

And their prayer at the House was meaning

*28).
This is to dispel a misconception common among the Arabs of those days.
They were generally inclined to assume that since the Quraysh were the guardians and keepers of the Ka'bah and were also engaged in worship at that holy spot, they were recipients of God's special favours.
Here people are told that the defacto guardianship of the Ka'bah should not be confused with its de jure guardianship.
For only the God-fearing and pious are the rightful guardians of the Ka,bah.
As for the Quraysh, far from behaving in a manner becoming of the guardians of the Ka'bah, they had virtually installed themselves as its masters, and were guilty of preventing people from worshipping there at will.
This attitude blatantly betrayed their impiety, and un righteousness.
As for their worship in the Ka'bah.
it was altogether devoid of religious devotion and sincerity.
They neither turned earnestly to God, nor displayed any genuine submission or humility, nor engaged in worshipfully remembering Him.
Their worship consisted of meaningless noise and clamour, of acts which seemed closer to play and jest than acts of religious devotion.
How could such a guardianship of the Ka'bah and such non-serious acts in the name of worship win God's favour for them, or secure for them immunity from God's scourge?
*29).
The Quraysh believed that God's punishment necessarily takes the form of some natural calamity or a rain of stones from the sky.
They are, however, told that their decisive defeat in the Battle of Badr, which ensured the survival of Islam and spelled death for their much-cherished Jahiliyah was a form of God's punishment for them.

 

( And their worship at the (holy ) House is naught but whistling) like the whistling of a bird ( and hand clapping. Therefore (it is said unto them ): Taste of the doom) on the Day of Badr ( because you disbelieve ) in Muhammad ( pbuh ) and the Qur’an.

Their Salat (prayer) at the House (of Allah, i.e. the Ka'bah at Makkah) was nothing but whistling and clapping of hands. Therefore taste the punishment because you used to disbelieve.

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