Transliteration:( Hunafaaa'a lillaahi ghaira mushrikeena bih; wa mai yushrik billaahi faka annamaa kharra minas samaaa'i fatakh tafuhut tairu aw tahwee bihir reehu bee makaanin saheeq )
"Being one for Allah, associate [72] none with Him. And whoso associates anything with Allah, it is as if he fell down from the sky and the birds have snatched him away or the wind blows him away to a distant place. [73]"
True faith must be pure and unmixed, like gold or milk—untainted by shirk. Only such faith is accepted by Allah.
A compound analogy:
Faith = Lofty sky
Shirk = Collapse into darkness
One who commits shirk plummets from spiritual heights.
The self’s desires (birds) and misguiding forces (winds) scatter him across every evil direction, leaving him lost without refuge.
External acts (Salah, fasting) = Outer piety
Love for pious people and relics = Inner piety
Even stones and animals linked to sacred acts (like sacrificial animals, Safa, Marwa) are symbols of Allah.
As per Tafsir Roohul Bayaan, graves of the pious and those associated with them are also signs of Allah.
31.Being true in faith to Allah, and never assigning partners to Him: if anyone assigns partners to Allah, is as if he had fallen from heaven and been snatched up by birds, or the wind had swooped (like a bird on its prey) and thrown him into a far-distant place.
There is no further commentary available on this verse by Ibn Kathir
(22:31) Become exclusively devoted to Allah, ascribing Divinity to none other than Him. Whoso ascribes Divinity to aught beside Allah, it is as though he fell down from the sky whereafter either the birds will snatch him away, or the wind will sweep him to a distant place[59] (causing him to be shattered to pieces).
59. In this parable heaven means the original human nature. Man by nature is the servant of none else but Allah and inherently accepts the doctrine of Tauhid. That is why the one who follows the guidance of the Prophets becomes firm in these dictates of his nature and soars higher and higher. On the other hand, the one who rejects Allah or associates a partner with Him falls down from the heaven of his nature. Then he either becomes a victim of satans and evil leaders like the birds of the parable, which snatch away the fallen man, or he becomes a slave of his lusts, passions, whims, etc., which have been likened to the wind in the parable. They lower him down from one wrong position to the other till he falls into the deepest abyss of degradation.
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