Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Woe to the praying ones who are heedless of their prayer”

Question:
He asks, saying: May Allah bless you, what is the interpretation of ? What is the interpretation of the verse?

Answer:
Wail, wail is a word of punishment. Yes. It is also said to be a valley in Hellfire; if the mountains of the world were sent into it, they would melt from the intensity of its heat.
And Allah has threatened with it the praying ones who are heedless of their prayer, meaning that they waste its times, so they do not pray it at its times. They do not pray it in congregation, they do not be humble in it, their hearts are not present in it, they peck at it like a bird pecking at grain, and they shorten it in a bad way. These are the praying ones; they are praying, but they do not perform the prayer in the prescribed manner. Allah threatens them with wail meaning they waste its time, they waste the congregation, and they do not pray it except according to their desires. So Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, threatens them with this threat: Wail to the praying ones who are heedless of their prayer. So they pray, but they do not pray the prayer required of them; they pray it in form, not in reality. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.