What is the meaning of the statement of Allah the Exalted: "And whoever associates partners with Allah is as if he had fallen from the sky, so the birds snatch him away or the wind carries him off to a distant place"?

The questioner : May Allah reward you. A questioner asks about the statement of Allah the Exalted: .

The Shaykh : Yes, this refers to whoever associates partners with Allah because shirk (associating partners with Allah) is a descent, a lowliness, a forsaking, and a humiliation. It is as if he had fallen from the sky, meaning from a high place. Whoever is high, if he falls from a high place, the birds snatch him away; that is one possibility. Or the wind carries him off to a distant place. So he reaches the ground and the place he intended, but he arrives either to be snatched by the birds and eaten, or to be carried by the wind to a distant place. Yes.