The fact is that Allah is very close to a human being, but the human beings themselves got distracted from this basic truth and coined a fallacious concept believing that an idol shall draw us near to Allah and thus took such idols to be their mediators.
These are the people who shamelessly turned down the bounty of Allah that it is He who listens to everyone directly and fulfills everyone's desires. Instead of turning to Allah, they started directing their prayers and invocations towards the so-called deities other than Allah for the fulfillment of their wishes.
To make the matters worse, these people also wished to be near to Allah by employing erroneous and wrong methods. How could these ingrates and untruthful people be guided on the Right Path? The more they tread on this crooked path, the more shall they be driven away from the Right Path.