When the characteristics of believers are aligned in the Qur'an, it is mentioned that the believers should pray after their testimony. In this respect, the prayer is the main denominator of Islamic belief. However, some verses referring to settlers of the hell clarifies that they do not perform their prayers, insisting on performing their worships just by clapping and whistling, and subject verses portray a wa‘īd, namely threatening rhetoric against performers of such kind of worships. In this article, the context of the wa‘īd verses addressing those who do not pray and addresses of these verses will be analyzed taking the unity of the Qur'an and the intratextual context into account. In this context, related verses will be chronologically examined considering the order of their revelation time. To this end, commentaries within classical and modern tafseer treatise are revealed, and different commentaries are compared. Thus, the reflection of the polysemic differences between the terminological meaning of salah which is the name of a certain worship in the Islamic period and its other connotation, denoting to the worship in general performed in different ways in late antiquity will be specified. The article also evaluates how the verses encovering the concept of salah beyond its terminological meaning are translated in the Turkish translations of the Qur’an and translation choices for the equivalent meaning of ṣalāh term are analysed as per their consistency with lexicological and contextual connotations of the term.