His saying, exalted and glorified is He: "So whoever fabricates a lie against Allah after that, then those are the wrongdoers." "Say: Allah has spoken the truth, so follow the religion of Abraham, inclining toward truth. And he was not of the polytheists." "Indeed, the first House established for mankind was that at Bakkah, blessed and a guidance for the worlds."

His saying: "So whoever fabricates a lie against Allah after that" can refer to three things: One is that it refers to the recitation, as it includes the clarification of the doctrine and the establishment of the proof. That is, whoever lies against Allah, the Exalted, or attributes to the Books of Allah what is not in them, then he is a wrongdoer, placing something in a place other than its rightful place. The second is that it refers to the affirmation of the prohibition in the Torah, because the meaning of the verse is: All food was lawful for the Children of Israel except what Israel prohibited for himself. Then the Torah prohibited it for them as a punishment. So whoever fabricates a lie against Allah and adds to the prohibited things, then he is the wrongdoer. The third is that it refers to the state after Israel prohibited for himself and before the revelation of the Torah. That is, whoever follows the practice of Jacob and establishes that without permission from Allah, and whoever prohibits something and attributes it to the religion of Abraham, then he is the wrongdoer. This last possibility is supported by His saying, the Exalted: "And because of wrongdoing by those who were Jews, We prohibited them good things which had been lawful for them." [An-Nisa: 160] So it specifies that they had wrongdoing in the meaning of what is lawful and unlawful, and they would impose strictness, so Allah imposed strictness upon them, as they did in the matter of the cow. In contrast to this behavior, Islam came with His saying, blessings and peace be upon him: "Make things easy and do not make them difficult," and His saying: "The religion of Allah is ease," and His saying: "I was sent with the Hanifiyyah, which is easy."

Then Allah, the Exalted, commanded His Prophet to proclaim the disagreement and debate with the scholars by saying: "Say: Allah has spoken the truth," meaning: the matter is as He described, not as you lie. If you are proud of Abraham, then follow his religion as Allah mentioned.

And Aban ibn Taghlib read: "Say: It is true" by merging the lam in the sad, and likewise: "Say: Travel" he read it by merging the lam in the seen. Abu al-Fath said: The reason for the permissibility of this is the prevalence of these two letters in the mouth and the spread of the echo emanating from them. Thus, they approached the exit of the lam, so merging them in it was permissible. The majority of people read: "It was placed" in the form of the verb for the unknown, meaning: Allah placed it. The verse, therefore, begins with a meaning that is disconnected from the previous speech. And Ikrimah read: "He placed" with the waw and the dad opened. It is possible that he means: Allah placed it, so the meaning would be disconnected as in the reading of the majority. It is also possible that he means: Ibrahim, peace be upon him, placed it, so the meaning would be connected to what preceded it. This verse would then be a call to them to his religion, in pilgrimage and otherwise, as Ikrimah narrated that when it was revealed: "And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted from him" [Aal Imran: 85]... the verse, the Jews said: We are upon Islam. So it was read: "And it is incumbent upon people to make pilgrimage to the House" [Aal Imran: 97]. It was said to him: Do you perform pilgrimage for them, O Muhammad, if they are upon the religion of Ibrahim, which is Islam.

Qadi Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

This interpretation is supported by what Abu Dharr, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "I said: O Messenger of Allah, which mosque was placed first? He said: The Sacred Mosque. I said: Then which? He said: The Farthest Mosque. I said: How long was there between them? He said: Forty years." It appears from this that both are from the placement of Ibrahim. It weakens what al-Zajjaj said that the House of the Holy is from the construction of Sulayman ibn Dawud. Unless he renewed it, where is the duration of Sulayman compared to the duration of Ibrahim? There is no doubt that Ibrahim placed the House of Mecca. The disagreement is whether it was a placement of initiation or a placement of renewal.

The interpreters differed in the meaning of this "initiality" in his saying: "Indeed, the first." Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, said: The meaning of his saying: Indeed, the first house placed is blessed and guidance, this house which is in Mecca. And there were before it houses that were not placed with the placement of blessing and guidance. Some said: Rather, it is the first house created by Allah, the Exalted, and beneath it the earth was spread.

And it has been narrated in this some stories about the descent of Adam with it from Paradise and about the specification between his creation and the spreading of the earth. And similar to what al-Zajjaj said that it is the House of the Elevated, its chains are weak, so I left them. According to this saying, the raising of Ibrahim of the foundations comes as a renewal; Qatadah said: It was mentioned to us that the House was lowered with Adam and raised at the time of the flood.

People differed in "Bakkah" - al-Dahhak and a group of scholars said: Bakkah is Mecca.

Qadi Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

So it is as if this is from the substitution of the باء (ba) with the ميم (meem), according to the dialect of Mazin and others. Ibn Jubair, Ibn Shihab, and many scholars said: Makkah is the entire sanctuary, and Bakkah is the place where people crowd together, which is the mosque and what is around the House. Malik said in the narration of Ibn al-Qasim from the 'Utbi: Bakkah is the location of the House, and Makkah is other than it from the locations; Ibn al-Qasim said: he means the town. Al-Tabari said: whatever is outside the place of tawaf is Makkah, not Bakkah. Some said: Bakkah is what is between the two mountains, and Makkah is the entire sanctuary.

And 'blessed' is in the accusative case as an adverbial phrase, and the agent for it, according to the saying of Ali ibn Abi Talib, is that it is the first House established in this state, his saying: 'established' and the agent for it, according to the other saying, is the action to which the preposition باء (ba) in his saying: 'in Bakkah' relates. Its estimation is: it settled in Bakkah, blessed. And in the description of the House as guidance, there is a profound metaphor, for it is a reforming constituent; it is a guide, and in it is guidance. Thus, his saying: 'and guidance' means: and this is guidance, and it is possible that guidance in this verse means the call, that is, from which the worlds were called to it.