Surah Al-Mulk (67) — Ayah 22

(Ayah 22){ اَفَمَنْ يَّمْشِيْ مُكِبًّا عَلٰى وَجْهِهٖۤ … : ’’ مُكِبًّا ‘‘ ’’أَكَبَّ يُكِبُّ إِكْبَابًا‘‘} (verbs) To fall face down. Despite being in the mazeed feehi form, this verb is intransitive, while its basic form {’’كَبَّ يَكُبُّ كَبًّا‘‘} (n) is transitive, which means to make someone fall face down. {’’ اَهْدٰۤى ‘‘ ’’هَدٰي يَهْدِيْ هِدَايَةً‘‘} (d) is an elative noun, which generally comes in the meaning of an active participle, but sometimes it also comes in the meaning of a passive participle, and here it is in the meaning of a passive participle. Therefore, its meaning is not "one who gives more guidance" but "one who is more guided." This is the example of a monotheist believer and a polytheist disbeliever. Instead of walking on the straight path, the disbeliever, due to falling into the pits of misguidance, keeps stumbling and falling face down. How can such a person reach the intended destination? In contrast, the believer walks upright on the straight path of monotheism and Sunnah, and he sees his path and its surroundings from every direction—right, left, and ahead. He will certainly reach his intended destination, which is Paradise, as Allah Almighty has said in one place about the disbelievers: «وَ نَحْشُرُهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِ عَلٰى وُجُوْهِهِمْ عُمْيًا وَّ بُكْمًا وَّ صُمًّا مَاْوٰىهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ » [ بني إسرائیل : ۹۷ ] "And on the Day of Resurrection We will gather them on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf; their abode will be Hell." And the reality is that the reason they will be raised on their faces in the Hereafter is that in the world too they used to walk the wrong way; walking upright on the straight path was not acceptable to them.