﴿ وَمَآ أَضَلَّنَآ إِلَّا ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ ﴾

“yet they who have seduced us [into believing in you] are the truly guilty ones!”

(It was but the guilty) the idolaters who came before us and whom we emulated (who misled us) who turned us away from faith and obedience.