Their prayer at the House was nothing but whistling and clapping—so taste the punishment for your blasphemy.
Al-Anfal 8:35
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وَمَا كَانَ صَلَاتُهُمْ عِنْدَ الْبَيْتِ إِلَّا مُكَاءً وَتَصْدِيَةً ۚ فَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ
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Their prayer at the House was nothing but whistling and clapping—so taste the punishment for your blasphemy.
Their prayers at Allah's House were nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment, because you disbelieved.
Their prayers at the Sacred House were nothing but whistling and clapping — so taste the punishment for your disbelief!
Their prayer at the House was nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment for your disbelief.
Their prayer at the House was nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment for having disbelieved.
Their prayer at the House was nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment for having disbelieved.
And their prayer at the House [i.e., the Kaʿbah] was not except whistling and handclapping. So taste the punishment for what you disbelieved [i.e., practiced of deviations].
Their Salât (prayer) at the House (of Allâh, i.e. the Ka‘bah at Makkah) was nothing but whistling and clapping of hands. Therefore taste the punishment because you used to disbelieve.
Their prayer at the Sacred House was nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment for your disbelief.
Their prayer at the House (of Allah) is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands: (Its only answer can be), "Taste ye the penalty because ye blasphemed."
And their worship at the (holy) House is naught but whistling and hand-clapping. Therefore (it is said unto them): Taste of the doom because ye disbelieve.
Their prayers at the Sacred House are nothing but whistling and clapping of hands. "So taste the punishment because of your denial."
Their Prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and handclapping. Taste, then, this chastisement for your denying the truth.
Their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment because of what you used to defy.
Wama kana salatuhum AAinda albayti illa mukaan watasdiyatan fathooqoo alAAathaba bima kuntum takfuroona