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 )
72. Just as gold, milk, etc are wholesome which is pure, so is that faith accepted which is in its pristine purity, free of any mixture of the infidelity of an infidel..
73 This is a compound comparison: Faith is loftiness while infidelity is a deep cave. whoever falls into infidelity the devils of the baser soul cut it to shreds, let him wander in every evil spot, without letting him find any sanctuary.
74 This tells us that the external acts of Ibadaat are the piety of the external body, while veneration for the pious and their blessed relics in one's heart is the inner piety. May Allah Almighty bless us with it!
Further, any animal and stone which is associated with the venerated become the symbols of Allah Almighty.
The Holy Qur'an has called the sacrificial animals of Hajj as symbols of Allah Almighty because they are associated with the Holy Ka'ba, and the Hills of Safa and Marwa as symbols of Allah Almighty because of the blessings of Bibi Hajirah (May Allah be pleased with her) who linked with the Holy Kaba.
It is stated in Tafseer Roohul Bayaan that the graves of the pious, too, are symbols of Allah Almighty, and those who get linked with the beloved personages of Allah Almighty all become His symbols.
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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.
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(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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