"And when they contend One with another in the Fire, the weak saying to those who were proud: Surely we were your followers; will you then avert from us a portion of the Fire? Those who were proud say: Now we are all in it: Allah has indeed judged between the servants. And those in the Fire will say to the guards of hell: Pray to your Lord to lighten our chastisement for a day. They will say: Did not your messengers come to you with clear arguments? They will say: Yea. They will say: Then pray. And the prayer of the disbelievers goes only astray. We certainly help Our messengers, and those who believe, in this world's life and on the day when the witnesses arise -- The day on which their excuse will not benefit the unjust, and for them is a curse and for them is the evil abode."