And warn threaten therewith that is with the Qur’ān those who fear they shall be gathered to their Lord apart from Him other than Him they have no protector to help them and no intercessor to intercede for them the negative sentence stands as a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of the verb yuhsharū ‘they shall be gathered’ and constitutes the object of what they fear — the sinning believers are meant here; so that they might be wary of God by desisting from what they engage in and performing deeds of obedience.