224وَالشُّعَراءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ الغاوونَMuhammad AsadAnd as for the poets1 - [they, too, are prone to deceive themselves: and so, only] those who are lost In grievous error would follow them.An allusion to the fact that some of the pagan Arabs regarded the Qur'an as a product of Muhammad's supposedly poetic mind. (See also 36:69 and the corresponding notes 38 and 39.)