كلء

Core meaning

To keep watch without respite, by night as by day.

Uses

1. يَكْلَؤُكُم → "watches over" : continuous guard, which none can provide against God.

   • «مَن يَكْلَؤُكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ مِنَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ» — "Who watches over you, by night and by day, from the All-Benevolent" (21:42)

Evidence from the text

Sole occurrence (21:42). The question bears on duration, "by night and by day", and on the adversary, the All-Benevolent Himself: there is no guard that protects from the One who keeps all things.

Distinctions

• حفظ — to preserve, to keep intact; كلء is the watch that never stops

See also

رحم (the All-Benevolent, against whom none keeps watch)