( وقالت أولاهم ) يعني القادة ( لأخراهم ) للأتباع ، ( فما كان لكم علينا من فضل ) لأنكم كفرتم كما كفرنا فنحن وأنتم في الكفر سواء وفي العذاب سواء ، ( فذوقوا العذاب بما كنتم تكسبون )
The leaders and chiefs will exclaim: 'You do not have, O followers, over us any preference, therefore deserving any lightening of the punishment, as it is the result of your own actions. You do not have any excuse for having followed what was false. So taste then, O followers, the punishment just as we taste it, because of what you earned through your own disbelief and disobedience.