Those who obstruct people from the way of Lord Allah and seek to make It crooked, and they are disbelieving with the Hereafter.
Adhikr is denoted as the Straightpath, as explained in verse 3:101. The hypocritical leaders among the Arabic Quran-reading Fujjar are obstructing mankind from Adhikr by hiding and distorting the Lord’s verses and by making the Lord’s Way (the Straightpath) appear crooked. Their followers are rejecting Adhikr. The hypocritical leaders, by hiding the 40 names of Adhikr, are encouraging the reading of the Arabic Quran. Thus, they are making their followers deviate from the Straightpath, as explained in verse 2:43. They are commanding evil and forbidding good so that the Lord’s punishment applies to them, and they will never become believers, as explained in verses 9:33 and 67. They will be summoned into Hell, as explained in verses 4:140 and 145. The Messenger and believers can’t remind them with Adhikr, as explained in verse 10:23.
The followers of the human devil hypocrites, by rejecting the command of verse 4:59, are also wrongdoers. They are following their hypocritical leaders who obstruct mankind from Adhikr, as explained in verse 9:34. Thus, they both are serving Satan and following his footsteps, as explained in verses 2:168-169. See explanation 7:44-45; 9:31, 84-85, and 10:17-18.