"[And if you obey most of those upon the earth, they will mislead you from the way of Allah]" because the polytheists were calling him to worship idols. "[They follow]" in their worship of idols "[only assumption]"—meaning: they claimed they were deities based on an assumption of theirs. "[And they are not but lying]"—meaning: they are fabricating falsehoods.

Muhammad said: The root of (al-khars) is assumption and conjecture, and from this, it is said to one who conjectures: