Shirk is assigning or raising other deities or mortals to rival God's exclusivity. If you repent and realize your error God will forgive you but if you die in that state then you have forfeited your claim to forgiveness. In fact, this is what is meant by the forgiveness of your previous wrongdoings when you accept Islam and not to expect that you will get away with murder.
Furthermore accepting Islam as your Deen has a personal aspect and a religious aspect. The condition that you are given two opportunities to accept Islam before you are disqualified from making a similar claim has to do with the administrative aspect of a community of Muslims. The issue of Shirk applies both to Muslims and non-Muslims who have been exposed to the truth of God's message. It boils down to verification and validation.
When you accept a piece of information on Deen without demanding proof of authenticity (Quranic Standard) then you break the exclusivity of belief reserved for God Alone. That exclusivity must also be established after thorough investigation and verification. Otherwise, essentially what you are doing is to believe in mere mortals. Accepting "so and so said so" may not be Shirk but it sure is missing the point of why God has made Shirk the only unpardonable sin. When you commit Shirk It doesn't and cannot affect God in any way but it sure screws you up well and proper.
Please don't confuse this with a teacher telling a student something he or she doesn't know. This has to do with an external examiner testing you on what you know, irrespective of whether you are self-taught and/or were taught by a teacher. Here you don't have the option to blame the teacher, you get it wrong, you fail. God in His infinite mercy is telling us; guys this is a deal breaker. It is a deal breaker because you exposed yourself to all sort of stuff that Quran was sent to protect you from. And when you do that then the deal is off.
What is the deal? The deal is clearly explained in the Quran itself: God is telling us, I am your teacher, I will explain the verses of the Quran to you in detail, to you the reader, read it slowly and try to understand the Quran by using your faculties of observation, reason, and logic. I have provided you with these faculties to distinguish you from animals. Furthermore, God is telling us, I will protect the Quran for you, forever. I will make it unique so that nobody can duplicate it, I am doing this so that when you read it you are certain it is from me and in matters of Deen the Quran is the total deal, it is complete.
After this airtight deal whereby God stamped the completion with the words "this day" why would anybody risk looking for answers elsewhere, especially in sources that came after "this day"?
Furthermore accepting Islam as your Deen has a personal aspect and a religious aspect. The condition that you are given two opportunities to accept Islam before you are disqualified from making a similar claim has to do with the administrative aspect of a community of Muslims. The issue of Shirk applies both to Muslims and non-Muslims who have been exposed to the truth of God's message. It boils down to verification and validation.
When you accept a piece of information on Deen without demanding proof of authenticity (Quranic Standard) then you break the exclusivity of belief reserved for God Alone. That exclusivity must also be established after thorough investigation and verification. Otherwise, essentially what you are doing is to believe in mere mortals. Accepting "so and so said so" may not be Shirk but it sure is missing the point of why God has made Shirk the only unpardonable sin. When you commit Shirk It doesn't and cannot affect God in any way but it sure screws you up well and proper.
Please don't confuse this with a teacher telling a student something he or she doesn't know. This has to do with an external examiner testing you on what you know, irrespective of whether you are self-taught and/or were taught by a teacher. Here you don't have the option to blame the teacher, you get it wrong, you fail. God in His infinite mercy is telling us; guys this is a deal breaker. It is a deal breaker because you exposed yourself to all sort of stuff that Quran was sent to protect you from. And when you do that then the deal is off.
What is the deal? The deal is clearly explained in the Quran itself: God is telling us, I am your teacher, I will explain the verses of the Quran to you in detail, to you the reader, read it slowly and try to understand the Quran by using your faculties of observation, reason, and logic. I have provided you with these faculties to distinguish you from animals. Furthermore, God is telling us, I will protect the Quran for you, forever. I will make it unique so that nobody can duplicate it, I am doing this so that when you read it you are certain it is from me and in matters of Deen the Quran is the total deal, it is complete.
After this airtight deal whereby God stamped the completion with the words "this day" why would anybody risk looking for answers elsewhere, especially in sources that came after "this day"?
Note: I left out cross-referencing what God is telling us within the body of the above writeup, for clarity and brevity. Please find it here
A) God is the teacher of the Quran: Quran 55:02
B) God perfected and completed the message: Quran 5:03
C) Easy remembrance and understandability of the message: Quran 54:17
D) God declared the end of the message with the words "This day”: Quran 5:03
E) God explained the verses in detail: Quran 11.01
F) The responsibility of explaining it has been taken by God Himself: Quran 75:19
G) The role of messenger to deliver the message: Quran 5:99
H) The message is unique and cannot be duplicated Quran 17:88
I) God undertook to preserve the physical message: Quran 15:9
J) To use our faculties of observation, reason and logic and not accept anything without proof : Quran 8:22, 7:179, 25:44, 12:108, 2:111, 17:36, 10:100, 25:73, 4:82, 47:24 and many others.
K) Do not accept the existence of gods without proof Quran 23:117
God did not specify any additional source needed to further explain God's explanation but emphasizes observation, reason, and logic.
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