And His saying - glorified and exalted is He -: "O Children of Adam, do not let Satan tempt you as he expelled your parents from Paradise, stripping them of their garments to show them their private parts. Indeed, he sees you, he and his tribe, from where you do not see them. We have made the devils allies to those who do not believe." "And when they commit an immorality, they say, 'We found our forefathers doing it, and Allah has commanded us to do it.' Say, 'Indeed, Allah does not command immorality. Do you say about Allah that which you do not know?'" This address is to all of mankind; and the intended meaning at that time was those who used to circumambulate the House naked among the Arabs; it was said that this was a custom of Quraysh. Qatadah and Al-Dahhak said that this was a custom of a tribe from Yemen; and it was said that the Arabs used to circumambulate naked, except for the Hums, who are Quraysh and those who allied with them. Al-Qadi Abu Muhammad - may Allah have mercy on him - said: This is the correct view; because when Quraysh established after the Year of the Elephant a great tradition by which they honored their sanctity, this was among that. So, the Arab would either borrow a garment from one of the Hums to circumambulate with it, or he would circumambulate in his own clothes and then throw them away. The matter continued until it became a practice among the Arabs; and the Arabs would say: 'We circumambulate naked, just as we came out from our mothers' wombs; and we do not circumambulate in clothes in which we have become defiled by sins.' And whoever circumambulated in his clothes, their tradition, as we have mentioned, was that he should throw those clothes away and not benefit from them; and those clothes are called "

," and from it is the saying of the poet: 'Enough of sadness, I am like one who has met the sacred among the circumambulators.' And the woman would circumambulate naked, until one of them would say: 'Today some of it appears or all of it, so whatever appears of it, I do not make it lawful.' So Allah - glorified and exalted is He - forbade all of that; and it was proclaimed in Mecca in the year nine: 'No polytheist shall perform Hajj after this year, nor shall anyone circumambulate the House naked.' And "the fitnah" in this verse means temptation and dominance over the soul; and the apparent meaning of His saying: "Do not let Satan tempt you" is a prohibition against the soul from listening to him and obeying his command; as they said: 'I do not want to see you here.' So the apparent wording is a prohibition of the speaker's own self; and its meaning is a prohibition of the other from remaining where he can see him. And he attributed the expulsion in this verse to Iblis; and that is a metaphor because he was an instigator in that and a cause for it. It is said: 'Father' and for the mother: 'Abah'; and based on this, it is said: 'Two parents'; and "stripping" is in the position of the state of the pronoun in "expelled." And the disagreement regarding the garment has preceded from the saying of those who said: 'The nails' and those who said: 'The light' and those who said: 'The garments of Paradise.' And Mujahid said: It is a metaphor; and he intended the garment of piety that is revealed. Al-Qadi Abu Muhammad - may Allah have mercy on him - said: This is weak. And His saying - exalted is He -: "Indeed, He sees you"; this verse is an increase in warning and informing that Allah - glorified and exalted is He - has enabled Satan over the son of Adam to this extent; and according to that, one must be cautious by obeying Allah - exalted is He." :

The judge Abu Muhammad - may Allah have mercy on him - said: And the devil is present; the Shari'ah has established him; he is a body; "and his kind"; he means: "his type; his category; and his offspring"; and "where" is built on the damm; and among the Arabs are those who build it on the fatha; and that is because it indicates a specific location; Al-Zajjaj said: What follows it is a connection to it; and it is not added to him; Abu Ali said: This is not correct; and "where" is not a relative pronoun; as there is no return as in relative pronouns; and it is added to what follows it.

Then He informed - glorified and exalted is He - that He made the devils allies; meaning: companions and participants with the disbelievers who have no faith; and Al-Zahrawi mentioned that "made" here means "described".

The judge Abu Muhammad - may Allah have mercy on him - said: And it is a separation that is isolationist.

And His saying, the Exalted, ﴿ "And when they do";﴾ and what follows it; is included in the description of "those who do not believe"; so that the reprimand falls on a people who have been made an example for the reproached; as their actions resemble the actions of those who are exemplified; and it is valid that this verse could be disconnected from that which preceded it; beginning a report about the disbelievers of the Arabs.

And "the immoral act"; in this verse - even though the term is general - is: the exposure of the private parts during the tawaf; for it has been narrated from Al-Zuhri that he said: This verse was revealed regarding that; and Ibn Abbas said it; and Mujahid; and it was the saying of some of the disbelievers: Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, commanded these traditions that are for us; and legislated them; so Allah, the Exalted, responded to them with His saying: ﴿Say: Indeed, Allah does not command immorality﴾; then He reprimanded them for their lying; and confronted them with their saying what they have no knowledge of; nor any understanding of it; rather it is a claim; and an invention.