Tafseer of Almsgiving · Al-Maa'un · 107:4
So woe to those who pray
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And His word: فَوَيْلٌ لِلْمُصَلِّينَ * الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنْ صَلاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ (Woe to those who pray — those who are heedless of their prayer.)
He — exalted be His remembrance — says: The valley that flows with the festering fluid of the inhabitants of Hell (jahannam) is appointed for the hypocrites (munāfiqūn) who pray but by their prayer do not intend Allah — Mighty and Majestic — and who are heedless in their prayer when they perform it.
The scholars of Qurʾānic exegesis (ahl al-taʾwīl) differed concerning the meaning of His word: عَنْ صَلاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ (heedless of their prayer). Some of them said: by this is meant that they delay the prayer beyond its appointed time, so that they perform it only after the time of the prayer has elapsed.
* Mention of those who said this:
