Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Anfaal, Ayah 35
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Tafsir
And their prayer at the Sacred House is nothing but whistling and hand-clapping in other words they do this in place of the prayer which they were ordered to perform — therefore taste now at Badr the chastisement for your unbelief!
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Clapping by women means that one should strike her left hand with the two fingers of her right hand.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And their worship at the (holy) House is naught but whistling) like the whistling of a bird (and hand clapping. Therefore (it is said unto them): Taste of the doom) on the Day of Badr (because you disbelieve) in Muhammad (pbuh) and the Qur'an.