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What is the comprehensive detailed meaning of the two verses: {And Allah wishes to accept your repentance, but those who follow their lusts wish that you deviate tremendously [from the straight path]. (27) Allah wishes to lighten [the burden] for you, and mankind was created weak. (28)}—connecting them to current reality, and do disobedient Muslims fall under "those who follow their lusts"?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The noble verse included a notification that Allah Almighty, through what He has clarified of lawful and unlawful, desires to return believers from a life of impurity and corruption to a life of purity and righteousness. And that those who follow desires wish for believers to deviate just as they have. And His saying: "Allah wishes to lighten (the burden) for you" means: in His laws, commands, and prohibitions, and "man was created weak." So, lightening the burden is suitable for his weakness in himself, his resolve, and his determination, especially regarding women. It was said concerning those meant by "those who followed desires": the adulterers, or the Jews and Christians, or the Jews specifically, or the people of falsehood in general, which is the most correct view. For reality testifies that many of the wicked and dissolute from the Ummah genuinely follow desires and wish to corrupt the Ummah.

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