49وَقالَ الَّذينَ فِي النّارِ لِخَزَنَةِ جَهَنَّمَ ادعوا رَبَّكُم يُخَفِّف عَنّا يَومًا مِنَ العَذابِMuhammad AsadAnd they who are in the fire will say to the keepers of hell,1 "Pray unto your Sustainer that He lighten, [though it be] for one day [only], this suffering of ours!"I.e., the angelic forces that are to watch over the suffering of the sinners in the hereafter: perhaps an allegory of the belated awakening of the latters' conscience.