﴿ وَقَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَآ إِنَّآ أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَآءَنَا فَأَضَلُّونَا ٱلسَّبِيلَا۠ ﴾

“And they will say: “O our Sustainer! Behold, we paid heed unto our leaders and our great men, and it is they who have led us astray from the right path!”

(And they say) i.e. the followers: (Our Lord!) O our Lord! (Lo! we obeyed our princes) our chieftains (and great men) our noble and eminent men, (and they misled us from the Way) they barred us from Religion.