وَيَوْمَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ فَيَقُولُ ءَأَنتُمْ أَضْلَلْتُمْ عِبَادِى هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ أَمْ هُمْ ضَلُّوا۟ ٱلسَّبِيلَ Qur’an Al-Furqan (25:17)Wayawma ya h shuruhum wam a yaAAbudoona min dooni All a hi fayaqoolu aantum a d laltum AAib a dee h a ol a i am hum d alloo a l ssabeel a
This passage connects elliptically with verse {3} above.
The rhetorical "question" which follows is obviously addressed to wrongfully deified rational beings - i.e., prophets or saints - and not, as some commentators assume, to lifeless idols which, as it were, "will be made to speak".
e.g., Jesus and the angels.
The question is as in a Court of Justice, to convince those who stand arraigned.