As they do not believe in the obligatory nature of the prayers, they are not regular at them, and they do not observe the prescribed times, but offer them carelessly at the eleventh hour or completely out of time. Verses (So woe to those performers of salah who are neglectful of their salah, who show off.) These verses describe the characteristics of the hypocrites who used to perform the prayers only to make a display of them to the people and prove that their claim of being sincere Muslims is true. These actions are intrinsically bad and gravely sinful, but their commission in the wake of kufr and takdhib are even more aggravating, because they attract eternal perdition, which in this Surah is described as wail. The morally bad and sinful deeds mentioned here are: oppressing and insulting the orphan, and being unkind to them despite the means, failing to feed the poor or failing to urge others to feed them praying only to show the people and failing to pay the Zakah. The verse contains a subtle indication that the moral sins condemned in this Surah are far too inconceivable from a believer only a non-believer or hypocrite would commit them. Therefore, verse أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يُكَذِّبُ بِالدِّينِ (Have you not seen him who denies the Requital?), as a preamble, makes plain that the person who performs these evil deeds is one who cries lies to the Doom, and thus the warning of punishment mentioned in this Surah is for those who deny the religion and the Day of Judgment. If these evil actions are committed by believers, who do not reject the true faith, they are still heinous and gravely sinful, but the threat of chastisement made in this surah does not apply to them. This Surah denounces some of the evil actions of the pagans and the hypocrites, and it holds out a threat of destruction to those who commit them.
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