And on the day when He will assemble them yahshuruhum; a variant reading has nahshuruhum ‘We assemble them’ and that which they worship besides God that is other than Him such as the angels Jesus Ezra and the jinn and will say exalted be He fa-yaqūlu; a variant has fa-naqūlu and We shall say’ to those who were worshipped as a way of establishing the argument against the worshippers of the former ‘Was it you read a-antum pronouncing both hamzas or by substituting the second one with an alif or not pronouncing this last and inserting an alif between the one not pronounced and the former or without such an insertion who misled these servants of Mine causing them to fall into error by commanding them to worship you or did they go astray from the way? the path of truth by themselves?
