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Say, to them: 'Who can guard you, preserve you, by night and day from the Compassionate One?', from His chastisement, if it should befall you? In other words, no one can do such a thing. Those being addressed [here] do not fear Allah’s chastisement because they deny [the truth of] it.² Nay, but of the Remembrance of their Rabb, that is, the Qur'ān, they are disregardful, failing to reflect on it.