Quran Universe
4:27

وَٱللَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتُوبَ عَلَيۡكُمۡ وَيُرِيدُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ أَن تَمِيلُواْ مَيۡلًا عَظِيمٗا

WaAllahu yureedu an yatooba AAalaykum wayureedu allatheena yattabiAAoona alshshahawati an tameeloo maylan AAatheeman

Allah wants to accept your repentance, but those who follow [their] passions want you to digress [into] a great deviation.

Word by word
  1. وَٱللَّهُAnd Allah
  2. يُرِيدُwishes
  3. أَنto
  4. يَتُوبَaccept repentance
  5. عَلَيۡكُمۡfrom you
  6. وَيُرِيدُbut wish
  7. ٱلَّذِينَthose who
  8. يَتَّبِعُونَfollow
  9. ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِthe passions
  10. أَنthat
  11. تَمِيلُواْyou deviate
  12. مَيۡلًا(into) a deviation
  13. عَظِيمٗاgreat
An-Nisa · 4:27Madinah

Two pulls: one toward forgiveness, one toward drifting far.

Who wants what for you

Two wishes for you
Allahwants to forgive you
versus
followers of desirewant you to drift far
Which voice you follow
just a littleit will not go far
a great deviationsmall slides add up

The verse repeats what Allah wants: to accept your repentance. Then it names the opposite pull. Those who follow their desires want you to swerve far off the path, not just a little. Ibn Kathir describes it as wanting you to take the path of falsehood instead of the truth.

The friend who says "everybody does it." The feed that keeps showing you one more video. Each step feels small. The direction is what matters. Notice who benefits from you drifting.

A few small compromises will not change who I am.

Some voices want me to drift far, while Allah wants to bring me back.

Try this

Unfollow or mute one account that pulls you somewhere you do not want to go.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 4:26)

Allah wishes to make clear (what is lawful and what is unlawful) to you, and to show you the ways of those before you, and accept your repentance, and Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise (26)Allah wishes to accept your repentance, but those who follow their lusts, wish that you (believers) should deviate tremendously away (from the right path (27)Allah wishes to lighten (the burden) for you; and man was created weak (28)

Allah explains to the believers what He has allowed and prohibited for them in this and other Surahs,

وَيَهْدِيَكُمْ سُنَنَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ

(And to show you the ways of those before you,) meaning their righteous ways and how to adhere to the commandments that He likes and is pleased with.

وَيَتُوبَ عَلَيْكُمْ

(and accept your repentance) from sin and error,

وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

(and Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise.) in His commands, decrees, actions and statements. Allah's statement,

وَيُرِيدُ الَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ الشَّهَوَاتِ أَن تَمِيلُوا مَيْلًا عَظِيمًا

(but those who follow their lusts, wish that you (believers) should deviate tremendously away from the right path)) indicates that the followers of Shaytan among the Jews, Christians and the adulterous, wish that you would take the horrendous path of falsehood instead of the truth.

يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ أَن يُخَفِّفَ عَنكُمْ

(Allah wishes to lighten (the burden) for you") His legislation, orders, what He prohibits and what He decrees for you. This is why Allah has allowed free men to marry slave girls under certain conditions, as Mujahid and others have stated.

وَخُلِقَ الْإِنسَانُ ضَعِيفًا

(and man was created weak.) and this is why it is suitable in his case that the commands are made easy for him, because of his weakness and feebleness. Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Tawus said that,

وَخُلِقَ الْإِنسَانُ ضَعِيفًا

(and man was created weak), "Concerning women". Waki' said, "Man's mind leaves when women are involved."