[2:192] 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 in their separating you from Him and jostling you, give up the chatter of the lower self (nafs) and stop its combative moves, for surely those who have been asked to protect the innermost selves (asrār) should not be attentive to the exertions of the lower selves (nufūs) in their various oppositional ways'.