Here, the law of preserving possibilities is clear; not all of the Jews, since there are some who believed in the Prophet Muhammad (saws) as Abdullah ibn Salam and others.
But let us note an important matter that in this verse the syntax has been broken in the Arabic word of (establishers). As it is well known that the Holy Qur’an contains a rhetorical challenge to the polytheists of the Arabs at that time who were masters of the language and masters of poetry, so any break in the syntax immediately attract the attention, nonetheless none of them, the masters of the Arabic language, said: Why was the syntax broken?! Because they understood the meaning behind this break as follows:
- To pay the attention to a specific important issue which is the prayer.
- This is called in Arabic (Changing the syntax according to specialty); meaning, to specify the prayer because it is the pillar of religion, who performs it establishes the religion, because it includes all the pillars of Islam; in it there is the pilgrimage by directing to the Kaaba, and in it there is fasting from speech other than speaking by the Book of Allah (swt), and from food and drink, and in it is there is the zakat (alms) because zakat depends on the work, and the work requires time, and in the prayer a part of the time is deducted, and in it there are two testimonies.