Surah Nisa ayat 27 Tafsir Quran 4:27

﴿وَاللَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتُوبَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَيُرِيدُ الَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ الشَّهَوَاتِ أَن تَمِيلُوا مَيْلًا عَظِيمًا﴾
[ النساء: 27]

4:27 Allah wants to accept your repentance, but those who follow [their] passions want you to digress [into] a great deviation.

And God desires to turn forgivingly towards you He repeats this in order to expand upon it but those who follow their passions the Jews and Christians or the Magians and adulterers desire that you deviate with a terrible deviation transgressing what is right by committing what has been forbidden you so that you might be like them.

But whereas Allah takes upon Himself to extend His mercy to you and give up resentment against you and pardon your offence, the wicked bred to the taste of lust appetent wish to see you alienate Allahs purpose and depart far distant from the path of righteousness

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 الشَّهَوَتِ أَن تَمِيلُواْ مَيْلاً عَظِيماً ( 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 عَنْكُمْ ( 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 الإِنسَـنُ ضَعِيفاً ( 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 الإِنسَـنُ ضَعِيفاً ( and man was created weak ), "Concerning women".
Waki` said, "Man's mind leaves when women are involved."

(4:27) And Allah indeed wants to turn graciously towards you; but those who follow their lusts would want you to drift far away from the right way. *49

Allah wants to accept your repentance, but meaning

*49).
This refers to the hypocrites, the ultra-conservatives and the Jews who lived on the outskirts of Madina.
Both the hypocrites and the conservatives were incensed at the reforms introduced by Islam, as these were diametrically opposed to the age-old customs and traditions of their society and culture.
The reforms were numerous: a share of the inheritance was assigned to daughters; widows were liberated from bondage to the will of their husbands' families and were granted the freedom to marry whomever they wished after the expiry of the waiting-period ( 'iddah ); marriage with one's step-mother and with two sisters together was prohibited; adopted sons were disinherited; and a foster-father's marriage with either the divorced or widowed wife of his adopted son was declared lawful.
These and other such reforms were so totally opposed to the customary laws of the Arabs that it was impossible for the elders and the blind devotees of the ways of their forefathers not to protest against them vehemently.
They long continued to grumble against these injunctions.
Mischievous people pointed to these innovations and exploited them by provoking people against the Prophet's movement of reform.
For instance, they would meet those born as a result of the marriage which had been prohibited by Islam and try to infuriate them by saying that according to the new-fangled teachings of Muhammad ( peace be on him ) the relationship between their parents was unlawful.
The Jews, on the other hand, had woven a complex network of laws and regulations for themselves.
The result was that they had forbidden a great number of things which were, in fact, lawful.
Additionally, they had introduced a number of superstitions into God's Law.
It was argued that the simple and straightforward law of the Qur'an was out of tune with the tastes and temperaments of both the religious leaders and the ordinary people.
The Qur'anic injunctions simply infuriated them and as soon as they came to know of any Qur'anic law, they vehemently denounced it.
They expected the Qur'an to endorse and validate all the legal deductions and all the superstitions and myths of their forefathers, and to treat them as an integral part of the law of God.
If the Qur'an would not do so then they would refrain from recognizing it as the Book of God.

Let us take the following as an example.
According to Jewish usage, a woman was considered completely unclean during her menstrual period.
Hence, they neither ate the food she cooked, drank from the cup of water she offered nor even sat with her.
It was even considered unwholesome to be touched by her.
Thus for a few days every month a woman virtually became an untouchable in her own house.
Owing to the influence of the Jews the same custom had found its way into the Arab families of Madina.
When the Prophet ( peace be on him ) arrived in Madina, he was asked about this matter.
In response to this query verse 222 of Surah al-Baqarah was revealed.
In the light of the principle embodied in the verse the Prophet ( peace be on him ) made it clear that it was unlawful to have sexual intercourse with a woman during her menstrual period; but it was only that relationship, and no other, that was unlawful.
( See Bukhari, 'Hayd', 2, 3; Nasa'i, 'Hayd', 9, 13, 16, 19, and 'Ahkam', 13 - Ed. ) This caused uproar among the Jews.
They claimed that Muhammad ( peace be on him ) was bent upon reversing all their legal injunctions to the extent that he wanted to legalize whatever they held as prohibited and prohibit whatever they held as lawful.

 

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 الشَّهَوَتِ أَن تَمِيلُواْ مَيْلاً عَظِيماً ( 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 عَنْكُمْ ( 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 الإِنسَـنُ ضَعِيفاً ( 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 الإِنسَـنُ ضَعِيفاً ( and man was created weak ), "Concerning women".
Waki` said, "Man's mind leaves when women are involved."

( And Allah wishes to turn to you in mercy ) He wishes to overlook your transgression when He made adultery and marrying your sisters, from the father’s side, forbidden for you; ( but those who follow vain desires ) i.e. adultery and marrying their sisters from their fathers’ side, namely, the Jews ( would have you go tremendously astray ) commit a serious error by marrying your sisters, from the father’s side, by claiming that it is lawful in their Scripture.

Allah wishes to accept your repentance, but those who follow their lusts, wish that you (believers) should deviate tremendously away from the Right Path.

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