فَمَا تَنْفَعُهُمْ شَفَاعَةُ الشَّافِعِينَ
The intercession of intercessors will not benefit them. (Al-Muddaththir 74:48)
An objection uses this statement to deny all intercession. The reply reads the verse in context: the people described acknowledge their denial of the Last Day. The negation therefore concerns the specified unbelieving group, not necessarily every believer who has sinned.
Attending to context and pronoun reference is not arbitrary restriction; it identifies the actual subject of the judgment in the surrounding verses.