Then the cover of ignorance and of negligence will be removed from their eyes, and they come to know how far, they are gone astray! In their terrible misfortune and adversity, they entreat their fetishes and leaders to give them a hand in salvation, but the leaders deny their followers and disown them! hence the verse: ``When those who were followed clear themselves from those who followed them, and disowned their adherents, and they see the penalty, and all relations between them would be cut off.''