The word(s) "desist" appears 16 time(s) in 16 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(11) He said: Do you dislike my gods, O Ibrahim? If you do not desist I will certainly revile you, and leave me for a time.

(12) They said: If you desist not, O Nuh, you shall most certainly be of those stoned to death.

(13) They said: If you desist not, O Lut! you shall surely be of those who are expelled.

(14) If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist, We shall most certainly set you over them, then they shall not be your neighbors in it but for a little while;

(15) They said: Surely we augur evil from you; if you do not desist, we will certainly stone you, and there shall certainly afflict you a painful chastisement from us.

(16) Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,