Let them then attend to their persons and complete the rites of pilgrimage, fulfil their vows and circuit round the ancient House.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (then let them make an end of their unkemptness) and then let them complete the rites of their pilgrimage: shaving their heads, throwing pebbles, cutting their nails and other things (and pay their vows) and fulfil that which they made incumbent upon themselves (and go around) the obligated circumambulation (the ancient house) more ancient than any tyrant that has ever stepped on its soil; it is also said that this means: more ancient than the flood of noah; it is also said that it is the first house ever built; and it is also said that whoever go round it will be delivered.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : then let them do away with their self-neglect, that is to say, [let them] remove any dirt or unkemptness, such as [any] long fingernails, and let them fulfil (read wa’l-yūfū or wa’l-yuwaffū) their vows, in the way of offerings and sacrifices, and perform the circumambulation, the circumambulation following the egress [from ‘arafa], of the ancient house’, that is, the old one, because it was the first house founded for mankind.
Sahl al-Tustari
تفسير : …and perform the circumambulation of the ancient house.he said:people have differed concerning this. Ḥasan said, ‘he called it ancient (ʿatīq) to honour it, just as the arabs speak of an “ancient” body, and an “ancient” horse if it is noble.’ my maternal uncle, muḥammad b. sawwār, related on the authority of al-thawrī that he said, ‘it is called this because it is the oldest (aqdam) and most ancient (aʿtaq) place of worship belonging to god, just as he said: the first house (of worship) to be established for people was that at bakka, a blessed place [3:96].’some have said, ‘he [god] called it ʿatīq because no tyrant ever headed for it with an evil design without god’s destroying him and freeing (aʿtaqa) his house from him. some have said, ‘it is because it was saved (uʿtiqa) from being submerged during the great flood and raised to the sky.’ just as god has freed his house, so he has also freed the heart of the believer from other [than him]. it [the kaʿba] is older than anything else that god, exalted is he, erected on his earth as a sign (ʿalam), and he placed it within the sacred mosque (al-masjid al-Ḥarām). likewise the heart has [within it] another heart, which is the position from which the servant stands before his master without being agitated or busied by anything, but in a state of tranquil repose in him (sākin ilayhi).his words, exalted is he:
