وَٱللَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتُوبَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَيُرِيدُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ أَن تَمِيلُوا۟ مَيْلًا عَظِيمًۭا
Wallaahu yureedu ai yatooba 'alaikum wa yureedul lazeena yattabi 'oonash shahawaati an tameeloo mailan 'azeemaa
Allah wants to accept your repentance, but those who follow [their] passions want you to digress [into] a great deviation.
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4:27Ayah 1176
22 ayahs in An-Nisaa are strongly about mercy and forgiveness. This is one of them.
← Previous on Mercy & forgiveness4:26Allah wants to make clear to you [the lawful from the unlawful] and guide you to the [good] practices of those before you and to accept your repentance.Next on Mercy & forgiveness →4:31If you avoid the major sins which you are forbidden, We will remove from you your lesser sins and admit you to a noble entrance [into Paradise].
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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.
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Allah is more pleased with the repentance of a servant as he turns towards Him for repentance than this that one amongst you is upon the camel in a waterless desert and there is upon (that camel) his provision of food and drink also and it is lost by him, and he having lost all hope (to get tbat) lies down in the shadow and is disappointed about his camel and there he finds that camel standing before him. He takes hold of his nosestring and then out of boundless joy says: 0 Lord, Thou art my servant and I am Thine Lord. He commits this mistake out of extreme delight.
“Indeed Allah accepts the repentance of a slave as long as (his soul does not reach his throat).”
Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant when he turns penitently towards Him than one of you would be on finding the lost camel.
"Allah is more pleased with the repentance of one of you that a man in a desolate, barren, destructive wasteland, who has his mount carrying his provisions, his food, and his drink and what he needs with him. Then it wanders away. So he goes to find it until he is on the brink of death. He says: 'I will return to the place where I lost it, to die.' So he returns to his place and his eyes become heavy (falling asleep). Then he awakens to find his mount at his head carrying his food, drink and what he needs." Other chains report similar narrations.
“Allah is more delighted with the repentance of one of you, than one of you is, when finding his lost animal.”
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