وَنَادَوْا يَامَالِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ قَالَ إِنَّكُم مَّاكِثُونَ
They will call out, ‘O Malik! Let your Lord finish us off!’ He will say, ‘Indeed you will stay on.’
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 43:77
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 43:77] Malik is the angel in charge of hell. The inmates of fire will address this angel to tell him that annihilation is better than agony, but as verse 74 of Ta Ha says they will neither die nor live.