And who is more astray? The meaning of the question here is a denial that there is anyone in misguidance more misguided than the idol worshippers. [Mawlid said: 'The question means a denial that there is anyone in misguidance more misguided than the idol worshippers... etc.'] Ahmad said: 'And in His saying until the Day of Resurrection is a good point. This is because He made the Day of Resurrection the limit for the lack of response. It is characteristic of a limit that the end of what is limited occurs at it. However, the lack of response continues after this limit, because they also do not respond to them on the Day of Resurrection. The correct view, and Allah knows best, is that it is one of the limits indicating that what follows it, even if it corresponds to what precedes it, is greater than it in a clear increase that connects it to the second. So it is as if the two states, although they are of one type, differ in what is between them, like something and its opposite. The first state, which has the Day of Resurrection as its limit, does not exceed the lack of response. The second state, which is on the Day of Resurrection, exceeds the lack of response by enmity and disbelief in their worship of them. This is in line with what was mentioned earlier in Surah Al-Zukhruf in His saying: 'But I gave enjoyment to these and their forefathers until the truth came to them and a clear Messenger. And when the truth came to them, they said: 'This is magic, and indeed we are disbelievers in it.' ] They abandon the call to the All-Hearing, the Responsive, who is capable of fulfilling every desire and wish. They invoke, instead, lifeless entities that do not respond to them and have no power to respond to any of them as long as the world exists and until the Day of Resurrection. And when the Day of Resurrection occurs and the people are gathered, they will be enemies to them and will oppose them. They are in both abodes only in misery and harm, not being supported in this world by a response, and in the Hereafter, they will oppose them and deny their worship. It was said: 'Who' and 'they' because it has been attributed to them what is attributed to the people of knowledge regarding response and heedlessness, and because they used to describe them with distinction out of ignorance and foolishness. It is also possible that it refers to every object of worship other than Allah from the jinn, humans, and idols, with the predominance of the non-idols over them. It has been recited: 'What does not respond.' It has been recited: 'Invoke other than Allah that does not respond.' And their description of abandoning response and heedlessness is a way of mocking them and their worshippers. This is similar to His saying: 'If you invoke them, they will not hear your invocation, and even if they heard, they would not respond to you. And on the Day of Resurrection, they will disbelieve in your associating partners with Allah.'