But if they desist surely God is Forgiving Merciful. The allusion in it: When the clamor of your thoughts and the enemies of your self nafs cut you off and they separate you from [God] and jostle you give up the chatter of the lower self nafs and stop its combative motion for surely those who have been asked to guard the innermost selves asrār should not have any business with the exertions of the lower selves nufūs in their various oppositional ways.
