ٱلْأَحْقَاف : ٥

  • وَمَنۡ And who
  • أَضَلُّ (is) more astray
  • مِمَّن than (he) who
  • يَدۡعُواْ calls
  • مِن besides
  • دُونِ besides
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • مَن who
  • لَّا will not respond
  • يَسۡتَجِيبُ will not respond
  • لَهُۥٓ to him
  • إِلَىٰ until
  • يَوۡمِ (the) Day
  • ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ (of) Resurrection
  • وَهُمۡ and they
  • عَن of
  • دُعَآئِهِمۡ their calls
  • غَٰفِلُونَ (are) unaware
And who is more astray than he who invokes besides Allāh those who will not respond to him until the Day of Resurrection [i.e., never], and they, of their invocation, are unaware.
And who is (man here is interrogative but meant [rhetorically] as a negation: in other words, 'no one is') further astray than him who invokes, [him who] worships, besides God, that is to say, other than Him, such as would not respond to him [even] until the Day of Resurrection - these are the idols, who never answer those who worship them in anything that they ask for - and who are heedless of their supplication?, their worship, because they are inanimates that possess no [faculty of] comprehension.