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Surah An-Nisa, Verse 27

سورة النساء، الآية ٢٧

4:27 Juz 5 Hizb 9 Page 83 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 4:27

وَٱللَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتُوبَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَيُرِيدُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ أَن تَمِيلُوا۟ مَيْلًا عَظِيمًا ۝٢٧

Transliteration

wal-lahu yurīdu an yatūba ʿalaykum wayurīdu alladhīna yattabiʿūna l-shahawāti an tamīlū maylan ʿaẓīman

Translation

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

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Verse 27 of Surah An-Nisa (4:27), a Medinan surah, is in juz 5, on page 83 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 27

Al-Mukhtasar

Allah wants to turn to you and forgive you your disobedience, while those who follow their low desires want you to turn far away from the correct way of life.

Tafsir of the whole Surah An-Nisa

Other translations of verse 27

Allah wants to accept your repentance, but those who follow their lusts want you to deviate a massive deviation.

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

And Allah would turn to you in mercy; but those who follow vain desires would have you go tremendously astray.

Allah doth wish to Turn to you, but the wish of those who follow their lusts is that ye should turn away (from Him),- far, far away.

And Allah desires that He should turn to you (mercifully), and those who follow (their) lusts desire that you should deviate (with) a great deviation.

And Allah wills to relent towards you, and (the ones) who closely follow (their) lusts would have you incline (Literally: tilt away a tremendous tilting) away a tremendous inclining.

Verse 27 word by word

  1. وَٱللَّهُ wal-lahu And Allah
  2. يُرِيدُ yurīdu wishes ر و د
  3. أَن an to
  4. يَتُوبَ yatūba accept repentance ت و ب
  5. عَلَيْكُمْ ʿalaykum from you
  6. وَيُرِيدُ wayurīdu but wish ر و د
  7. ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those who
  8. يَتَّبِعُونَ yattabiʿūna follow ت ب ع
  9. ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ l-shahawāti the passions ش ه و
  10. أَن an that
  11. تَمِيلُوا۟ tamīlū you deviate م ي ل
  12. مَيْلًا maylan (into) a deviation م ي ل
  13. عَظِيمًا ʿaẓīman great ع ظ م

Hadiths that cite this verse

Authentic Sahih al-Bukhari 2468

I had been eager to ask `Umar about the two ladies from among the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) regarding whom Allah said (in the Qur'an saying): If you two (wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) namely Aisha and Hafsa) turn in repentance to Allah your hearts are indeed so inclined (to oppose what the Prophet (ﷺ)…

لَمْ أَزَلْ حَرِيصًا عَلَى أَنْ أَسْأَلَ عُمَرَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ الْمَرْأَتَيْنِ مِنْ أَزْوَاجِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم اللَّتَيْنِ قَالَ اللَّهُ لَهُمَا ‏‏{‏إِنْ تَتُوبَا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَقَدْ صَغَتْ…

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