And who is the most strayed than the one who invokes others besides Allah who won’t respond to him till the Day of Judgement? And they are heedless about their invoking.
“Who won’t respond to him till the Day of Judgement” does not mean that they will respond on the Day of Judgement. Instead, as told in the next verse and in verses 36: 74–75, on the Day when they all will be summoned, they will be enemies to one another. The Fujjar who bear the Lord’s Book, just like donkeys carrying a burden, know to pronounce “Allah” clearly with their tongue, but they are invoking Allah’s creatures instead of invoking Allah. When verse 1: 7 is recited, the believer should remember in his heart, “not in the path of human Satan hypocrites and their blind followers.” The Arabic Qur’an-reading Fujjar include these two groups. See explanation 35: 13–14; 38: 82–83; and 39: 8.