English - Tafheem -Maududi : يا ايها الذين امنوا انما المشركون نجس فلا يقربوا المسجد الحرام بعد عامهم هذا وان خفتم عيله فسوف يغنيكم الله من فضله ان شاء ان الله عليم حكيم div class="tafheem"div class="tafheem_trans"928 O Believers the mushriks are unclean; therefore let them not come near the MasjidiHaramspan id="25" *25 after this year of their pilgrimage; if you fear poverty Allah will enrich you out of His bounty if He wills for Allah is Allknowing AllWise/divdiv class="tafheem_comments" span*25 This prohibition was meant to root out all the vestiges of shirk and ' ignorance' For the mushriks were prohibited not only from the performance of Haj and attendance at the MasjidiHaram but also from entering into its sacred precincts br They are "unclean" in their creeds in their morals in their deeds and in their ways of `ignorance' and not in their physical bodies by themselves That is the reason why they have been prohibited from entering the sacred precincts of the Holy Place br This prohibition has been interpreted in different ways Imam Abu Hanifah is of the view that it prohibits them only from the performance of Haj and Umrah and from the observance of the rites of `ignorance' in the Holy Precincts But Imam Shafi`i is of the opinion that they have been forbidden even to enter the MasjidiHaram for any purpose whatsoever Imam Malik is of the opinion that they are forbidden not only to enter MasjidiHaram but any mosque at all It is however obvious that the last opinion is not correct as the Holy Prophet himself permitted mushriks to enter the Prophet's Mosque at AIMadinah br /div