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.
