193وَإِن تَدعوهُم إِلَى الهُدىٰ لا يَتَّبِعوكُم ۚ سَواءٌ عَلَيكُم أَدَعَوتُموهُم أَم أَنتُم صامِتونَMuhammad Asadand, if you pray to them for guidance, do not respond to you?1 As far as you are concerned, it is all one whether you invoke them or keep silent.Lit., "do not follow you". As regards my translation of in tad'ahum ila 'l-huda as "if you pray to them for guidance" (instead of the erroneous - but common - translation "if you invite [or "call") them to guidance"), see Zamakhshari, Razi and Ibn Kathir. Cf. also verse 198 below.