Dr Zakir Naik. Lectures. Misconceptions about اسلام . Question Answer in English Part-02
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00:00Hijaab of the thought, it even includes where a person talks, the where a person walks, the where a person behaves.
00:07This is the complete hijab.
00:11Allah says in the Quran, in Surah Ahzab, chapter number 33, verse number 59,
00:16O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the believing women that when they go abroad, they should put on the cloak,
00:24they should put on the jilbab, so that they shall be recognized and it will prevent them from being molested.
00:31Quran says, hijab has been prescribed for the women so that they shall be recognized and it will prevent them from being molested.
00:40I'd like to ask you a question.
00:42Let's suppose two twin sisters who are very beautiful, who are equally beautiful,
00:47if they are walking down the streets of Dubai, walking down along the Cornish,
00:52and if one twin sister, she is wearing the Islamic hijab, the complete body covered, except the face and hands up to the wrist,
01:00and the other twin sister, she is wearing the western clothes, the mini skirts or shorts.
01:06And if both of them are walking down the streets in Dubai, along the Cornish,
01:12and if on the side there is a ruffian who is waiting for a catch, who is waiting to tease a girl,
01:19I am asking the question, which girl will he tease?
01:21Will he tease the girl wearing the Islamic hijab, or will he tease the girl wearing the western clothes, the mini skirts or shorts?
01:29Which girl will he tease?
01:32Which girl?
01:34But naturally, the girl wearing the western clothes, the mini skirts or shorts.
01:39If you are inviting, then you will receive.
01:42The Quran rightly says that hijab has been prescribed to prevent the woman from being molested.
01:52And after this, if anyone rapes any woman, the Islamic Sharia says, death penalty.
01:59Many non-Muslims say, death penalty?
02:02In this age of 21st century, Islam is a barbaric religion.
02:07It's a ruthless law.
02:08But when I ask this question, and I have asked this question to thousands of non-Muslims,
02:16that suppose, God forbid, someone rapes your mother, or someone rapes your sister,
02:21and if you are made to the judge, and the rapist is brought in front of you,
02:25what punishment will you give him?
02:27Believe me, all of them said, 100%, we will put him to death.
02:31Someone to the extreme of saying, we will torture him to death.
02:34Someone rapes your mother, your wife, your sister, you want to put him to death.
02:41Someone rapes somebody else's mother, somebody else's sister, you say, death penalty, barbaric law.
02:46Why these double standards?
02:48Why?
02:50And do you know, America, USA, which happens to be the most advanced country in the world,
02:56do you know, it has one of the highest rates of rape in the world.
03:00The country which has one of the highest rates of rape in the world is USA.
03:03According to the FBI statistics of 1990, every day, 1,756 cases of rape took place.
03:13According to the statistics of U.S. Department of Justice, in 1996,
03:17every day, 2,713 cases of rape took place.
03:211990, 1,756.
03:241996, 2,713.
03:26Maybe the Americans got bolder.
03:28In six years' time, they got more bold.
03:30If you calculate, every 32 seconds, one rape is taking place in America.
03:37You know, we are here in this auditorium for the past one and a half hour.
03:41Already 150 rapes may have taken place in USA till the time we are here.
03:45I am asking you the question that if you implement the Islamic Sharia, any man looks at a woman, he should lower his gaze.
03:56The woman should be modestly dressed, complete body covered, accept the face and hands up to the wrist.
04:01And after that, any man rapes any woman, capital punishment, death penalty.
04:04I am asking you the question, will the rate of rape in America, will it increase, will it remain the same, or will it decrease?
04:11It will decrease.
04:13It's the practical law.
04:14You implement the Sharia, you get results.
04:16That's the reason, the least rate of rape in any country in the world, it's in Saudi Arabia.
04:23You implement the Sharia, you get results.
04:29The Western society, claiming to uplift the woman, when it speaks about woman's liberalization,
04:36it's nothing but a disguised form of exploitation of a body, deprivation of a soul, and degradation of honor.
04:42The Western society, claiming to uplift the woman, have actually degraded her to a status of concubines, butterflies, and mysticists,
04:52which are mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers and sex marketers,
04:56hidden behind the colorful screen of art and culture.
04:58In the name of art and culture, the Westerners, they're selling their daughters, they're selling their mothers.
05:06And you see it very common, in most of the ads, invariably, you have to find a woman.
05:12You see an ad of a motorcycle, how many women drive a motorcycle, yet you'll see a woman in the ad of a motorcycle.
05:20In the ad of a car, percentage-wise, a small percentage of women drive cars, yet you'll find a woman in the ad of a car.
05:28And I was told about a very famous advertisement ad of the BMW.
05:33You know BMW car?
05:35It's in competition with Mercedes.
05:36The youngsters, they prefer BMW.
05:38It has a better pickup.
05:39It's fast.
05:41Someone told me in one of the very famous ads of BMW, there was a woman who was standing in front of the car with a bikini,
05:47and the ad read, test driver now.
05:50Who?
05:50The girl or the car?
05:55So in the name of women liberalization, they are selling their daughters.
05:59They are selling their mothers.
06:01We love our daughters.
06:02We love our mothers.
06:03If the hijab subjugates the woman and protects her, we love this subjugation.
06:16We love this subjugation and we love this protection.
06:18If this is your freedom in the name of women liberalization, selling your body, selling yourself, we are very happy with our religion.
06:29Islam has prescribed women hijab to protect her and to uplift her.
06:34And we see today, the same thing is happening in the Western world.
06:38Same thing what happened in Greek civilization, Roman civilization, women.
06:44In the name of liberalization, art, culture, modeling, fashion, TV, all this you see.
06:50What are they doing?
06:52Going back to the old age.
06:53The eighth most common question, as well as non-Muslimists, that why does Islam permit a Muslim to have non-vegeting food?
07:14I would like to mention at the outset that a Muslim can be a very good Muslim even by being a pure vegetarian.
07:20There is no verse in the Quran, the hadith that says it is compulsory for the Muslim to have non-vegeting food.
07:26But since the Quran and our creator Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have given permission for the human beings to have non-vegeting, why should we not have?
07:37The Quran says in Surah Maidah chapter number 5 verse number 1.
07:39O you believe, fulfill your obligations and eat of the four-footed animals with exceptional name.
07:48Eat of the meat of the four-footed animals with exceptional name.
07:53Quran says in Surah Nahal chapter number 16 verse number 5.
07:56We have created for you cattle.
07:59And from it, you derive warmth and many benefits.
08:03And of the meat you can eat.
08:05Quran says in Surah Maiminoon chapter number 23 verse number 21.
08:08That verily in the cattle is an instructive sign for you.
08:12We give you to drink from what is within the body.
08:14And you derive many benefits from them.
08:17And of their meat you can eat.
08:19So when Quran has given permission to have the meat of the lawful animals, then why should we Muslims not have it?
08:26Let's analyse the scientific as well as the logical reasons for having non-vegeting food.
08:34Today science tells us that in non-vegeting food, it is a wholesome food.
08:41It is rich in protein.
08:44And the body requires amino acid.
08:46There are eight amino acids which are not created in the body.
08:50It has to be given by the external diet.
08:53It is known as essential amino acids.
08:56Only in the flesh food do you have all the eight essential amino acids.
09:01Therefore, the meat is called as a complete protein.
09:06There is no vegetarian food which has all the essential amino acids in it.
09:09Furthermore, meat is rich in niacin, vitamin B, and it's a wholesome food.
09:17There are many non-Muslims, especially the Hindus.
09:20They say that why do Muslims have non-vegeting?
09:25Indians, besides India, they are present throughout the world.
09:2820% population of the world.
09:30You go to any part in the world, USA, Canada, UK, Dubai, you will find Indians there.
09:36So it has become a common question throughout the world.
09:41I tell them that if you analyze the set of teeth of the herbivorous animals, cow, goat, sheep, they only have vegetables.
09:50If you see the set of teeth, they have a flat set of teeth called as herbivorous set of teeth.
09:57If we analyze the set of teeth of the carnivorous animals who only have flesh food, lion, tiger, leopard, they have pointed set of teeth.
10:06They have the canine set of teeth.
10:07If you analyze the set of teeth of the human beings, if you go in the mirror and see, we have flat teeth as well as pointed teeth.
10:14If almighty God wanted us to have only vegetables, why did he give us the pointed teeth, the canine teeth?
10:20For what?
10:22To have non-veget.
10:23Furthermore, if we analyze the digestive system of the herbivorous animals, cow, goat, sheep, they can only digest vegetables.
10:35If they take flesh food, they will not be able to digest it.
10:39If we analyze the digestive system of the carnivorous animals, the tiger, the leopard, the lion, they can only digest flesh food.
10:48They cannot digest vegetables, but the digestive system of the human beings can digest veg food as well as non-veget food.
10:56If almighty God wanted us to have only vegetables, why did he give us a digestive system that can even digest non-veget food?
11:03But naturally to have it.
11:04We have a small intestine as well as a large intestine for having both veg food and non-veget food.
11:10We are neither herbivorous, neither carnivorous, we are omnivorous.
11:14And many of the Hindus have a misconception that Hinduism prohibits a human being from having non-veget food.
11:27If you read the scriptures of the Hindus, in several scriptures, several places say that sages, saints had non-veget food.
11:35If you read Manu Smriti, chapter number 5, verse number 30, it says that the eater, if he eats the flesh of the thing which is to be eaten, then it is good.
11:48Even if he does it day after day.
11:50Because God has created some to be eaten and some to become eater.
11:55When you read Manu Smriti, chapter number 5, verse number 31, it says that eating meat in sacrifice is not a sin.
12:05It is the law of the gods.
12:08It's mentioned in Manu Smriti, chapter number 5, verse number 39, as well as 40, that God created sacrificial animals.
12:17So killing animals in sacrifice is not considered as killing.
12:22Furthermore, when you read Mahabharata, Anushasan Parva, chapter number 88, regarding the Pandavas, the five brothers,
12:35the eldest brother Yudhishtir, he asks Bhishma that while they were doing puja, yagna for the ancestors,
12:45he asks Bhishma that what should we give in puja, in yagna, so that our ancestors will be satisfied.
12:55So Bhishma replies that if you put in the puja herbs, vegetables and fruits, the ancestors will be satisfied for one month.
13:05If you give fish, two months, if you give meat, three months, if you give hair, four months, if you give meat of the goat, five months,
13:18if you give bacon, meat of the pig, six months, if you give birds, seven months, if you give deer, eight months, and the menu continues,
13:26If you give a buffalo, eleven months, and if you give cow, our ancestors will be satisfied for one full year.
13:37That is beef.
13:41And if you give rhinoceros meat or red meat of goat, our ancestors will be satisfied inexhaustibly.
13:50There is a big menu, imagine, vegetables, fish, meat, hair, what, everything is there in the menu.
13:57So if you read the Hindu scriptures, it was permitted to have non-veg.
14:03It is later on, when the Hindus were being influenced by other non-Hindus,
14:09and tried to take their philosophy that they converted, and tried to make the religion into vegetarianism,
14:15though all Hindus aren't vegetarians.
14:17Now when we ask these people, that why are you a vegetarian?
14:22They tell us, that killing animal is a sin.
14:26Because killing living creatures is a sin.
14:28So I said, I agree with you.
14:29If a person can live without killing living creatures, I'm with you.
14:33Today science tells us, that even the plants have got life.
14:37Previously people did not know, that plants and vegetables had life.
14:41So now the logic has changed.
14:42No, no, we understand, we realize plants have got life, but plants can't feel pain.
14:46Therefore, killing animal is a bigger sin, as compared to killing a plant.
14:52Now science has further advanced, and we have come to know, that even the plants can feel pain.
14:57Though we cannot hear the cry of the plant, but even the plants can feel pain.
15:01They don't have a very well-developed system, but they can feel pain.
15:04And there was research done in America, that a farmer had made a gadget where you could make the cry of the plant be heard to the human ear.
15:12Because the human ear only hears between 20 cycles to 20,000 cycles per second.
15:18Anything below and above this, the human being can't hear.
15:21Like this is below 20 cycles, I can't hear.
15:24If I do fast, I can hear, because it's above 20 cycles.
15:28You know the dogs, they can hear up to 40,000 cycles per second.
15:32So you may have heard about the silent dog whistle.
15:34You blow the whistle, the frequency is between 20,000 and 40,000 cycles per second.
15:39The human beings can't hear, the dog hears and comes to the master.
15:43So the cry of the plant cannot be heard by the human being.
15:46So there was a research done in America, where a farmer makes a gadget, and whenever the plant wanted more water, it would cry out.
15:56It would convert the cry, and you could hear it.
16:00So today, science tells us that even the plants can feel pain.
16:04So now, there is a non-Muslim argument, who said, okay, I agree with you, the plants have got life, the plants can feel pain.
16:12But you know, plants have got about two senses less as compared to animals.
16:16Animals have got five senses, plants have got three senses.
16:19So I say, okay, for sake of argument, I agree with you.
16:21The plants have got three senses, animals have got five senses.
16:25So I ask him the question, that suppose, if you have a brother, who's born deaf and dumb,
16:32and if someone comes and kills him, will you go and tell the judge,
16:35me lord, give this murderer less punishment because my brother had two senses less?
16:42In fact, you'll go and tell the judge, give this murderer double punishment.
16:45And my brother was masoom, could not hear, could not speak.
16:49Give him double punishment.
16:50So where is the logic, two senses less or less punishment?
16:54In Islam, it does not work two senses less or two senses more.
17:00Quran says in Surah Baqra, Chapter 2, Verse 168,
17:02Eat of the things which are good and halal for you.
17:05What is permitted and what is good you can have.
17:09So what is halal, what is lawful, and what is permitted and what is good you can have.
17:13As far as non-Muslims who are against eating non-veg, you know, if I agree that, fine, we should not kill any animals,
17:25you know, the population of the cattle, it grows so fast that if we stop eating animals,
17:31there will be overpopulation of cattle in the world.
17:33So now we have overpopulation of human beings in some countries, India, China.
17:36We will have problem with overpopulation of cattle.
17:40And personally, if non-Muslims don't have non-veg, I have got no problem.
17:47Believe me, I have got no problem.
17:48Because if in India, all the non-Muslims start having non-veg,
17:54then maybe the price of mutton and beef will go up.
17:57So for me, no problem.
17:58If they don't have non-veg, I have got no problem.
18:00But if someone tells me that eating non-veg is haram, it's a sin,
18:04that's the time I give all this logical explanation.
18:06The ninth most common misconception asked is that non-Muslims say,
18:14we don't have any problem that Muslims have non-veg food.
18:17But why do the Muslims slaughter the animals so ruthlessly?
18:22You know, Zabiha, slowly you torture and kill the animals,
18:25slowly and steadily, you're not ruthless people.
18:29So once there was a Muslim who was having an argument with a Sikh.
18:33In India, we have Sikhs, those who wear the turban.
18:36So the Sikh was telling you, Muslims, are ruthless, you're merciless.
18:40Why do you torture the animal?
18:41One jhatka, attack, an animal dies.
18:44So the Muslim told him that you, Sikhs, y'all are cowards, y'all attack the animal from behind.
18:52We are mart ka bachcha, we are maisho, we are attacks from the front.
18:54This is his hikma, this is not the reason why we do zabiha.
19:04It is his hikma, he had no argument, so he said, we are mart ka bachcha, maisho.
19:07We are attack from the front.
19:09Y'all are cowards, we are attack from behind.
19:11The real logical scientific reason is that why do we do zabiha?
19:15Why do we slaughter in the Islamic method?
19:19In the Islamic method of slaughtering, the knife should be very sharp, it should be swift, so animals feel the least pain.
19:29Secondly, we cut the throat, the windpipe and the vessels of the neck without damaging the spinal cord.
19:34If the spinal cord is damaged, the nerve going to the heart can be severed, they can be cardiac arrest.
19:43That is the reason the spinal cord should not be cut.
19:45We only cut the throat, the windpipe and the vessels of the neck and let the heart beat.
19:50When the heart beats, majority of the blood flows out of the body of the animal.
19:55Today science tells us that blood is a very good medium of germs, bacteria and toxins.
20:01So when we let the blood flow out of the animal's body, what are we doing?
20:07We are cleansing the animal.
20:09We are removing the germs, bacteria and toxins.
20:13It's more hygienic.
20:14Furthermore, an animal slaughtered by the Islamic method of zabiha remains fresh for a longer time
20:20as compared to an animal slaughtered by the stunning method.
20:25Because there's less blood in the animal, it remains fresh for a longer time.
20:29Furthermore, people have a misconception.
20:32People think that in the Islamic method of slaughtering, the animal dies of pain.
20:39Today science tells us that when we slaughter, when we cut the throat, the windpipe and the vessel of the neck,
20:46the nerve supply going to the brain is also cut, which is responsible for healing of pain.
20:51So the animal does not die of pain, the animal dies a peaceful death.
20:56Unlike in stunning, many a time the animal dies after hours together.
21:01So the Islamic method is the most peaceful method.
21:05And the animal dies a peaceful death.
21:09The animal kicks and rivers, not because of pain, because the muscles are contracting and relaxing
21:15so that the blood can flow out of the body.
21:19Animal rivers because of the flow of blood, not because of pain.
21:21So the Islamic method of slaughtering is the most hygienic and the best and the humane way of killing.
21:29The tenth most common question is, or the misconception about Islam is,
21:34that non-Muslims, many of them say, you Muslims, you eat animals and you behave like animals, violent and ferocious.
21:44You Muslims, you know, you all have non-veg food and you behave like animals, violent and ferocious.
21:49I have to agree.
21:52Today's science does tell us that what you eat has an effect on your behavior.
21:57And I agree with them that what you eat has an effect on your behavior.
22:01That is the reason we Muslims, we are not allowed to eat ferocious and violent animals like tiger, leopard, lion, which are ferocious.
22:11We are only allowed to eat the peaceful animals like cow, goat, sheep, because we are peace-loving.
22:20The herbivorous animals, the peaceful animals, we are only allowed to eat the peaceful animals, the cattle.
22:32Quran says in Surah Araf, chapter number 7, verse number 157,
22:37The Prophet commands you that which is just and prohibits you that which is evil.
22:43He allows you that which is lawful and good and prohibits you that which is bad and impure.
22:50Allah repeats the message in Surah Ashar, chapter 59, verse number 7.
22:55Take what the Prophet assigns to you and abstain from that which the Prophet prohibits to you.
23:00So whatever Allah and His Rasul prohibit, we Muslims abstain from it.
23:03And there are various Sahih Hadith in Bukhari, in Muslim, Ibn Majah that speak about the prohibition of these violent animals, these carnivorous animals.
23:13It's mentioned in Sahih Muslim, in the book of hunting and slaughtering.
23:18Hadith number 4752.
23:22Also in Ibn Majah, chapter number 13.
23:27Hadith number 3232 and 3234.
23:31The various types of food that the Prophet has prohibited.
23:35Amongst them is animals that have carnivorous set of teeth.
23:41The carnivorous animals that belong to the cat family.
23:44Like lion, tiger, cat, dog, wolf, hyenas.
23:48All these are prohibited.
23:50Certain rodents like mice, rats, rabbits with claws.
23:56Certain reptiles like snakes, alligators.
23:59All these are prohibited.
24:00The Prophet also prohibited birds which have talons and claws.
24:04Like vultures, eagles, crow, owls, etc.
24:07All these are prohibited.
24:08Now we'll discuss the 11th most common question asked by the non-Muslim is, the 11th misconception in the mind of the non-Muslim is that if Islam is against idol worship, why do the Muslims bow down to the Kaaba?
24:28The reply to the allegation is, no Muslim ever worships the Kaaba.
24:36Kaaba is the Qibla, is the direction.
24:40It's mentioned in the Quran in Surah Baqra, chapter number 2, verse 144.
24:46That wherever you are, bow in the direction of the Kaaba.
24:51The Kaaba is the Qibla.
24:52For example, if the Muslims want to offer Salah here, some will say less face north, some will say south, some will say east, some will say west.
25:01So for congregation, for unity, all the Muslims face towards one direction, that is the Kaaba.
25:07So Kaaba is our Qibla.
25:08And the Muslims, they were the first people who drew the world map.
25:14And Al-Adurusi, in 1154, was the first human being who drew the world map.
25:21And when the Muslims drew the world map, they had the south pole on top, north pole down, and Kaaba in the center.
25:26Later on, the western cartographers came, and they turned the map upside down.
25:30North pole top, south pole down, yet, alhamdulillah, the Kaaba is in the center.
25:34So whichever part of the world you are, and if you are in the north, you face towards the south.
25:40If you are in the south, you face towards the north.
25:42If you are in the east, you face towards the west.
25:44If you are in the west, you face towards the east.
25:45Kaaba is the center.
25:47Now when we Muslims go to Makkah, and during Umrah, or Hajj, or while doing Tawaf, we circumambulate around the Kaaba.
25:57Now why do the Muslims circumambulate around the Kaaba?
26:00Because it's the commandment of Allah and our Rasul, we do it.
26:02But the logical reason that I can think of is that when we circumambulate, we know that every circle has got only one center.
26:12So when we are circumambulating, we are testifying that God is only one.
26:16Furthermore, the statement of the second caliph of Islam,
26:22He said it's mentioned in Sahih Bukhari, volume number 2, in the book of Hajj, chapter number 56, hadith number 675.
26:31Hadith Tumar Malawi said, pointing at the black stone, Hajj Yaswat.
26:35This black stone can neither benefit me, can neither cause me any harm.
26:40Only because I've seen the Prophet kiss it, that's the reason I'm kissing it.
26:44This statement that the black stone, Hajj Yaswat, can neither benefit any Muslim nor harm any human being,
26:51is sufficient to prove that we Muslims don't worship the Kaaba.
26:55And furthermore, during the time of the Prophet, there were many Sahabas who stood on the Kaaba and they gave the Azaan.
27:04No idol worshipper will ever stand on the idol he or she worships.
27:09This is sufficient proof to show that we Muslims, we don't worship the Kaaba.
27:14The Kaaba is only the Qibla.
27:15The twelfth most common question of the non-Muslim is, that if Islam is a universal religion,
27:24then why aren't non-Muslims allowed to enter Makkah and Medina?
27:30If Islam is a religion for everyone, then why aren't the non-Muslims allowed to enter Makkah and Medina?
27:36The reply to this question is, every country has certain areas which are called as cantonment area.
27:47Cantonment area means only the military and the people who are involved in the defence of the country are allowed.
27:54Though I'm a citizen of India, I am not permitted to go in the cantonment area.
27:58I cannot say, I'm a citizen of India, why am I not allowed to go in the cantonment area?
28:03No, only those who are involved with the defence and the protection of the country,
28:08they are allowed to go in the cantonment area.
28:10Similarly, Makkah and Medina, both the Harmain, they are the cantonment areas of Islam.
28:17So only those who believe, love and are willing to die for Islam are allowed to enter Makkah and Medina.
28:27That there is in Allah says in Quran,
28:29And from this day, do not allow any non-Muslim to enter in these two areas.
28:34Once Allah is prohibited, we agree with it.
28:37The other reason is that whenever you enter a country,
28:42whenever you want to visit a country, you have to first obtain the visa.
28:47No visa means you cannot enter the country.
28:50And one of the most difficult countries to get visa is USA.
28:55They ask you so many questions.
28:56And nowadays, I ask you, are you a terrorist?
29:00As though anyone will write yes.
29:03I want to ask the American government, has anyone written yes?
29:06Do you belong to any terrorist organisation?
29:09Ajeeb.
29:11I want to ask them, has anyone written yes?
29:16So far, yes, I'm a terrorist.
29:18Yes, I belong to a terrorist organisation.
29:20I said, they ask so many questions, so you have to fulfil the requirement, otherwise they won't give you visa.
29:26And I had gone to Singapore, the first time in 1986, and it was mentioned in the immigration form, death to drug traffickers.
29:35Means if you're caught with drugs, death penalty.
29:38You can't say, oh, death penalty, very barbaric law.
29:40If you want to enter Singapore, you agree with the law, otherwise don't enter.
29:45So if you want to get the visa, you have to agree with the law of the land.
29:49Now, the visa to enter Makkah and Madinah is to say with your lips,
29:53La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah.
29:56There is no God but Allah, and Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
29:59If any human being says with his lips, La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah, he can get visa to enter Makkah and Madinah.
30:08These two holy places are a cantonment area, and the visa is to agree there is no God but Allah,
30:15and Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
30:17Due to time limitations, I'll just give the reply to one more misconception, or one more common question.
30:26Then we can have the common question from this audience, inshallah.
30:31At least I'm touching more than 50%.
30:33The 13th most common question today, according to me, is that why does Islam prohibit a Muslim from eating pork, the flesh of swine?
30:47The answer to this question is, Quran says in no less than four different places.
30:53In Surah Baqra, chapter number 2, verse number 173.
30:55Surah Mahidah, chapter 5, verse number 3.
30:57Surah Anam, chapter 6, verse number 145.
30:59And Surah Nahal, chapter 16, verse 115.
31:01Hurra mat alaykum ul-maehtutu waddamu walham ul-khenzeer.
31:04Wa maa illa li-gehril la-bi.
31:06Forbind for you for food are dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine,
31:09and any food on which any name besides Allah's name is taken.
31:13So there are no less than four different places where it says
31:15that eating the flesh of swine is prohibited.
31:18Quran says that we Muslim believe.
31:20This prohibition is also mentioned in the Jewish and the Christian scriptures.
31:27It's mentioned in the book of Leviticus, chapter number 11, verse number 7 and 8.
31:31The flesh of swine is unclean.
31:34Though it has cloven foot and divided hoof, it chews not the cud.
31:40Its flesh is unclean.
31:41Dhao shall not eat its flesh, nor touch its carcass.
31:45That means the Bible says eating the flesh of swine is prohibited.
31:49Even touching it is prohibited.
31:50The same message is repeated in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter number 14, verse number 8.
31:56That the swine, though it has divided hoof, it chews not the cud.
32:01Its flesh is unclean for you.
32:03Its carcass should not be touched.
32:06The same message is repeated in the book of Isaiah, chapter number 65, verse number 2 to 5.
32:10That you should not have the flesh of swine.
32:12So according to the Jewish scriptures and the Christian scriptures, eating pork is prohibited.
32:18If you read the Hindu scriptures, even in Hindu scriptures, eating pork is prohibited.
32:26It's mentioned in Manusmiti that a Brahmin, a twice-born, should not eat cock or onion or dung-heap pig.
32:38It further mentions Vishnu Sutra.
32:40Anyone who sells the meat, the forbidden meat, that is pork, you should chop off the opposite hands and limbs.
32:47Punishment.
32:48It's not there in the Quran and Hadith, Hindu scriptures.
32:50Chopping off the hands, if you sell pork.
32:54Let us analyze what are the logical reasons.
32:57So according to the religious scriptures, whether it be Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam,
33:02it's clearly mentioned in all these scriptures that eating the flesh of swine is prohibited.
33:07Let us analyze what are the logical reasons and scientific reasons for the prohibition of eating of pork.
33:14Today medical science tells us that if a person has pork, he has chances of having no less than 70 different diseases.
33:24Pinworm, roundworm, hookworm, you name it it is there.
33:27Many helminths, one of the most dangerous helminths, is called as tinea solium.
33:36Tinea solium, in layman's terminology, it is tapeworm.
33:41And it harbors in the intestine.
33:44It's very long.
33:45And the eggs, the ova, where the bloodstream, can enter different organs of the body.
33:52If it goes to the brain, it can cause memory loss.
33:54If it goes to the eye, it can cause blindness.
33:57If it goes to the heart, it can cause heart attack.
33:58If it goes to the liver, it can cause liver damage.
34:00It can damage almost all the organs of the body.
34:03And by the time you realize you are suffering from this tinea solium, it's already too late.
34:08The other dangerous diseases, if a person has pork, is trichuria trichuriasis.
34:17And many people have a misconception that when you cook your food very well, these helminths die.
34:25According to our research, out of 24 people suffering from trichuria trichuriasis, 22 have cooked the food well.
34:31That means the food that you cook in your house, the normal temperature you reach, cannot kill the germs and bacterias and the ova that are there in the pork.
34:42There are various other reasons why a person should not have pork.
34:47Today science tells us that eating pork has got fat building material.
34:52It has very little muscle building material.
34:54Because of the fat building material, a person has high chances of having hypertension, atherosclerosis, heart attacks.
35:00That is the reason more than 50% of the Americans, they suffer from hypertension because most of them are pig eaters.
35:09Today we know that one of the most filthiest animals on the face of the earth is the pig.
35:15Wherever you find feces, muck, filth, you will find the pig there.
35:20It is the most dirtiest animal.
35:22Some people say in certain countries like Australia, I know, they breed the pig very well, you know, very hygienic.
35:28I tell them, even in Australia, in the stye, the pigs are kept together.
35:35You know, the pig, when it excretes, it eats its own excreta.
35:40So do you have a man 24 hours manning wherever he excretes, he picks up the excreta?
35:44No.
35:45So even in Australia, the pig is dirty.
35:48It is one of the most filthiest animals and one more reason I can think of besides many is that today's science tells us pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth.
36:01It is the only animal that invites its friends to see when it's having sex with its mate.
36:09When the pig is having sex with its mate, it invites its friends to see him having sex with the mate.
36:17You know, in America, modern society, they have dance parties.
36:23After the dance parties, they're swapping of wives.
36:25You sleep with my wife, I sleep with your wife.
36:27You eat pigs, you behave like pigs.
36:39Due to limitation of time, I will not be able to complete all the 20 common questions.
36:43But you're most welcome to go to the website www.irf.net and get all the answers in details.
36:50I would like to leave the rest of the time for the open question and answer session.
36:54I'd like to end the speech with the verse of the Quran of Surah Isra, chapter 17, verse number 81, which says,
36:59وَقُلْ جَالْ حَقْ وَذَاقْ الْبَاطِلِ
37:01إِنَّ الْبَاطِلِ قَانَهُزْهُكَ
37:03When truth is her leg in falsehood, falsehood perishes.
37:06For falsehood is by its nature bound to perish.
37:08وَاخْرُ الدَوَانَا الْحَمْدُ لِللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
37:10Jazakallah wa khairin, Dr. Zakir Naik, for a very profound, informative, and an enlightening talk.
37:26Now, we move on to a very interesting part of this program, the open question and answer session.
37:33To analyze the topic, misconceptions about Islam, adequately for all present here today in the limited time available,
37:42we would like the following guidelines to be followed during the question and answer session.
37:48Questions asked should be on the topic.
37:53Questions not relevant to the topic, including any general question on religion, will not be allowed.
38:00Kindly state your question briefly and to the point.
38:05Only one question at a time may be asked.
38:08For your second question, you will have to go back off the row again and await your second chance to ask your question.
38:17Non-Muslim brothers and sisters will be given first preference to ask the question.
38:23Three mics have been provided for the questions from the audience in the auditorium.
38:30The first mic on my left.
38:34The second in the middle aisle for the gents.
38:38The third mic in the ladies' section.
38:41Please stand in a queue at one of the mics if you wish to put a question to the speaker
38:47and speak into the mic only when the mic handling assistants hand over the mic to you.
38:52We will allow one question at each of the mics in clockwise rotation.
38:59Kindly state your name and profession before putting forth your question.
39:05May we begin the first question.
39:09Brother, please state your name and profession before you pose your question.
39:12I'm Dr. Chhabra.
39:15I'm an eye specialist.
39:16I'm in Dubai since 1984.
39:19I had a chance to listen to Dr. Zagir a few times.
39:22And it's always fun to listen to him every time.
39:25He's so informative.
39:27So educative.
39:29So eye-opener.
39:30And I always enjoy asking him some questions.
39:34So I'm lucky to be the first to ask him the question.
39:39My first question is, you said the holy place is in the center so that it is equal from everywhere.
39:48But to my mind, I may be wrong or right, the God is all-prevailing, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnivorous.
39:57Then he need not to be present in one place.
40:00He's everywhere.
40:02A non-Muslim brother has asked a good question.
40:05And he enjoys hearing my talk.
40:07He enjoys asking questions.
40:08And I enjoy answering your questions, brother.
40:11He has the question that God is omnipotent, omnipresent.
40:17So why should he be in the center?
40:19Brother, when you heard my answer, I think you misunderstood.
40:21I never said God is present in the center.
40:24I didn't say that.
40:24I said the Kaaba is in the center, not God.
40:28Kaaba is the Qibla, the direction.
40:31And the Kaaba is only direction for unity.
40:34When we worship Almighty God, we face in one direction for unity.
40:39Not that God is only there.
40:41Quran clearly says in Surah Baqra chapter 2, verse 177,
40:45it is not righteousness that you turn your face to the east and west.
40:48It is righteousness that you believe in Allah.
40:49So you misunderstood Kaaba is the Qibla, a direction.
40:54So for unity, they have kept the direction in the center.
40:58God is not in the center.
41:00God is on the Arsh.
41:02He's on the throne.
41:03What we realize that for unity, we have to face in one direction.
41:08So the Kaaba for unity has been kept in the center.
41:11So all the different people, different human beings from different parts of the world,
41:15can face for unity in one direction.
41:18Because we believe when we offer prayers in Salah, we believe in congregation, believe in unity.
41:22Hope that answers the question, Brother.
41:25Can we have the next question from the lady's side?
41:30I'd request that if there are any non-Muslims, they're most welcome to come on the microphone.
41:35This is your opportunity.
41:36You can ask any questions on Islam, on comparative religion, even if it's criticism,
41:42even if it's attacking Islam, attacking Quran, I can take it.
41:45I'm young.
41:46No problem.
41:47So any non-Muslims have any questions, any clarification?
41:51Not that you have to agree with everything what I say.
41:54If you think I've said something wrong, you're most welcome to correct me.
41:58If I'm wrong, I'll correct myself or I will clarify your misconception.
42:01This is your opportunity.
42:02It's not common that you have open question-answer session after religious talk.
42:08Very few times you have.
42:09This is your opportunity.
42:10We give more time for question-answer session.
42:12You can clarify your misconception.
42:15What you agree, no problem.
42:17What you disagree, you can clarify.
42:18This is your opportunity.
42:20The non-Muslims would be given the first preference.
42:22So I request all the non-Muslims to come on the microphone, the three microphones for
42:26the gents on the right, on the left, also for the gents, and one behind for the ladies
42:30there.
42:31Please come on the microphone.
42:32You can break the queue and come in the front.
42:34Yes, sister.
42:35You're most welcome.
42:37Good evening, everybody.
42:38My name is Amutha.
42:40I'm working in Indian Embassy.
42:42So I just want to have a lot of questions.
42:45But for time being, I'm saying little bit questions.
42:47So in Islam, why there is no caste system?
42:51Yes, sister.
42:52Okay.
42:52My second question...
42:53Sister, ask the first question.
42:55After I reply, then you can ask the second question.
42:56Okay, fine.
42:57Give me the answer.
42:58Sister, ask the question, why in Islam there is no caste system?
43:02Because in Islam we believe that all the human beings are equal.
43:07Unlike in Hinduism.
43:08Quran says, Quran says in Surah Hujurat, chapter 49, verse number 13,
43:17O humankind, we have created you from a single pair of male and female,
43:31and have divided you into nations and tribes,
43:34so that you shall recognize each other,
43:36not you shall despise each other.
43:38And the most honored in the sight of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
43:41is the person as taqwa.
43:43The criteria for judgment in the sight of Almighty God,
43:46for a human being to be superior to the other human being,
43:49it's not sex, it's not caste, it's not color, it's not wealth,
43:53it's not age, but it is taqwa.
43:55It is God consciousness.
43:56It is piety.
43:57It is righteousness.
44:01The only way one human being can be superior to the other human being,
44:05it's not by wealth, it's not by age,
44:07it's not by sex, but it is by piety,
44:09it is by God consciousness,
44:11it's by righteousness.
44:12Unlike Hinduism, when we read the Vedas,
44:15it's mentioned that Almighty God,
44:17He created the Brahmin class,
44:19the learned class from the head.
44:21That's the first caste.
44:22Then He created the warrior class,
44:25the Kshatriyas, from the chest.
44:27Then from His stomach and thighs,
44:29He created the business community, the Vaishyas.
44:32And from the feet, He created the Chudras,
44:35that's the untouchables,
44:37that's the lower caste.
44:37So this is what is mentioned in the Vedas.
44:40In Islam, we believe that all the human beings are equal.
44:45We don't believe that one human being is superior to the other human being
44:48because of birth,
44:50because of profession,
44:51because of wealth,
44:53because of color,
44:53because of caste.
44:54So Islam is a universal religion.
44:58Unlike in the Vedas,
44:59what they say,
45:00that you have to stick to your profession.
45:03Because it was mainly controlled by the Brahmin,
45:06which is again,
45:07small percentage,
45:08minor percentage.
45:09And they say,
45:10that if you are born as a Shudra,
45:12you remain a Shudra,
45:13you serve the Brahmin,
45:14next life maybe you may become a better person.
45:17Now this is all ideology.
45:19So that you know,
45:20they want to keep the person low,
45:21the person will remain low.
45:22And the rich and the top people remain low.
45:25In Islam, we believe in equality.
45:28And Islam is a religion for all the human beings.
45:31That is the reason Islam is against caste system.
45:33Hope that answers the question, sister.
45:37Okay, sir, I have one more doubt.
45:39So why you are saying the Muslim is Syed Muslim,
45:42or Sunni Muslim, or Shia?
45:43So what is that?
45:44Sister said that,
45:45why am I saying Syed Muslim,
45:47and Shia Muslim Sunni?
45:48I never said Syed Muslim.
45:50Muslim is the one who submits his will to Almighty God.
45:55In Islam, there is no sect.
45:57Allah says in the Quran,
45:58in Surah Al-Imran,
45:59chapter 3, verse 103,
46:01hold to the rope of Allah strongly,
46:05and be not divided.
46:06There is no Syed Muslim,
46:08and Sunni, or this.
46:09Yes, the family.
46:11Fine, you may belong to a family.
46:13You may belong to a Sheikh family.
46:15You may belong to a Syed family.
46:17To know your roots.
46:19That does not mean a person is superior.
46:21A Khan is superior to a Sheikh or a Syed.
46:23No.
46:24It is belonging to your roots.
46:27Like how you may come from some family,
46:29so that you have come from particular land,
46:31or particular area.
46:32If you have come from Koken region.
46:34So this is family background.
46:36It doesn't mean one person is superior to the other.
46:39The only way one human being can be superior to the other human being,
46:42is by piety,
46:44is by righteousness,
46:44is by God consciousness.
46:45Hope the answer is a question, sister.
46:50Okay, second question.
46:52Why in Islam marriages,
46:53no horoscope is seen?
46:56Sister asked the question that
46:57why in Islam,
46:59during marriages,
47:00no horoscope is seen?
47:02Because, sister,
47:03we don't believe in horoscope.
47:06Why is there no data of God,
47:08based on the data of God,
47:09you are not seeing any horoscope?
47:11Yes, sister, I'll come to it.
47:12I will tell you what Hinduism says,
47:15because I've studied Hinduism.
47:16In Hinduism,
47:17they believe in horoscope.
47:19Kundali,
47:19Kundali.
47:20No, Kundali.
47:21Yeah, I know.
47:22It's called Kundali.
47:23Yes, you know, sister.
47:24When Kundali,
47:24you tell your date of birth,
47:26then they say that this son was there,
47:28and this Shagun,
47:29and this,
47:29this grahan came.
47:31This is a science.
47:32But this science
47:33is not established science.
47:36It's a hypothesis.
47:38It says that if you are born on this date,
47:40then this grahan comes,
47:41and this planet goes there,
47:43and this.
47:43It is a science,
47:45but it's not established science.
47:47It's not heart science,
47:48like what we read in our college,
47:50biology,
47:51physiology,
47:52embryology.
47:53It is
47:54what they believe.
47:56It's an assumption.
47:57And then they talk about future.
47:59Everything what they mention
48:00in the Kundali
48:00does not come out to be true.
48:02We in Islam
48:03are against fortune-telling.
48:05Quran says in Surah Maida,
48:07chapter number 5,
48:07verse number 90,
48:09Ya allazina amanu
48:10innama al-khamru wal-maisuru
48:11O you believe
48:12most certainly
48:13intoxicating and gambling
48:14wal-an-zabu al-aslamu
48:16dedication of stones,
48:17divination of arrows,
48:19rich summin amili shaitaan.
48:20These are certain handy work.
48:22Fash tanimu lalukum tuflihun.
48:23Abstain from this handy work
48:24that you may prosper.
48:25Quran says,
48:26this fortune-telling,
48:27divination of arrows,
48:28they are certain handy work
48:29absent from it
48:30that you may prosper.
48:31So in Islam,
48:32we do not believe in this.
48:34Many a time,
48:35you go in a machine,
48:37you put your date of birth,
48:38then it comes out there.
48:40Something good is going to happen
48:42to you in the next one week.
48:44Even if 100 bad things happen,
48:46one good thing will surely happen.
48:49The next person goes,
48:51it comes horoscope,
48:52something bad is going to happen
48:54in the next one month.
48:54So these are statements
48:57that are made
48:57which are so ambiguous.
49:00And all this,
49:01you know,
49:01parrot goes and picks up,
49:03a parrot goes and picks up a chit,
49:05and you come to know
49:06your kundali
49:06or what is your future.
49:07So in Islam,
49:08we don't believe a parrot
49:09can pick up and tell you
49:10what is your future,
49:11or by reading the palm,
49:12or looking at the stars.
49:14Islam is against this.
49:15And many a time,
49:17you get fooled into believing
49:18that it is true.
49:20And there was research done
49:22that once a psychologist,
49:25he was teaching a class,
49:27class of 100 students.
49:29And after one week,
49:30he said,
49:31now I have understood
49:32your background on everything.
49:33I will write about
49:34each individual person,
49:37about his past and everything.
49:39But don't open the chit
49:40until I tell you.
49:41So he wrote to all 100 students
49:43details about the past.
49:46Then he said,
49:46okay,
49:47now open the chits
49:48and give me gradation.
49:50How much am I accurate?
49:52Believe me.
49:54More than 95% of the students said
49:56the professor was more than 90% correct.
49:59The secret was,
50:03the professor wrote
50:03the same thing for everyone.
50:06These are such ambiguous statements.
50:09What we have to realize,
50:10sister,
50:10Islam is against fortune telling,
50:12against knowing about the future.
50:14That is the reason
50:15there is no Kundalini required.
50:17If the Kundalini was there,
50:18yet we find that
50:18so many marriages
50:19are being broken in Hinduism.
50:21Why?
50:21What we believe,
50:22that we have to choose
50:23our life partner.
50:25And our beloved Prophet,
50:26Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
50:27it's mentioned in Sahih Hadith,
50:28that whenever you choose
50:29your life partner,
50:30you look for four things.
50:31Beauty,
50:32wealth,
50:33nobility,
50:33and virtue.
50:34The best is virtue.
50:35The best to choose
50:36from a life partner
50:37is a virtuous life partner,
50:39not Kundalini.
50:40Whether born in October,
50:41September doesn't make a difference.
50:43The virtue should match.
50:44That is the reason
50:45a woman in Islam,
50:46sister,
50:47is called as a mohasana.
50:49Mohasana in Arabic means
50:51a fortress against the devil.
50:53In other religions,
50:54including Hinduism,
50:55the woman is referred
50:56as an instrument of a devil.
50:57In Quran,
50:58the woman is referred
50:59as a mohasana.
51:00In Arabic,
51:01it means a fortress
51:02against the devil.
51:03So if you marry
51:04a virtuous woman,
51:05inshallah,
51:06she will prevent
51:06the husband
51:07from going on the wrong track.
51:08Hope that answers
51:08the question, sister.
51:09Shall I ask the third question?
51:17Sister,
51:17let's give a chance.
51:18When the chance comes to you,
51:19you can answer.
51:20No problem.
51:21So you can stand there.
51:22We'll ask the other non-Muslims.
51:23We'll allow them
51:24to give a question.
51:25If any other non-Muslims
51:26come give them a chance,
51:27then you can ask sister.
51:28So that we give
51:28every an equal opportunity.
51:29Yes, brother.
51:30I have a question that
51:32how can you convince a Sikh
51:34about Islam
51:35based on the comparison
51:36between
51:37the Guru Granth Sahib
51:38and the Quran?
51:40Furthermore,
51:41did you encounter
51:42any contradictions
51:43in the Guru Granth Sahib
51:45when you read it?
51:46When you read it
51:46and understood it?
51:47A brother who asked
51:49two questions
51:50yesterday night
51:52is a job seeker.
51:53I think you're a
51:53Thut seeker.
51:58He asked that
51:59can you compare
52:01when you compare
52:02Sikhism
52:03Guru Granth Sahib
52:04what are the similarities
52:06you found
52:06and did you find
52:08any differences
52:08in Sikhism?
52:11I did mention
52:12some point yesterday
52:12that as far as Sikhism
52:14I told you yesterday
52:15that it was religion
52:16of 10 Gurus
52:17and was founded
52:19by Guru Nanak Sahib
52:20and the 10th Guru
52:22was Guru Gobind Sahib.
52:24It originated
52:24towards the end
52:25of the 15th century
52:26in the land of Punjab,
52:28the land of Fire Rivers
52:28and Guru Nanak
52:30was very much influenced.
52:31He belonged to a Shatri family
52:32and was influenced
52:33by the Muslims.
52:35Therefore,
52:35you find many of the teachings
52:36are quite common
52:37and scholars say
52:39it's an amalgamation
52:40of Islam and Hinduism.
52:43As far as
52:44the teachings are concerned,
52:46the basic
52:46Sikh comes from the root word
52:50Sisya
52:50means a student,
52:53a seeker,
52:54a seeker of truth.
52:55Therefore,
52:55I told you you are
52:55a seeker of truth,
52:57not a job seeker.
52:59And in Arabic,
53:00we say Talib.
53:01No Talib.
53:02Talib means a student,
53:03person who,
53:04there's Talib,
53:04who seeks.
53:05As far as the five keys,
53:07a Sikh is supposed to maintain
53:08in Sikhism,
53:10he has to maintain
53:11his kish,
53:12the uncut hair.
53:14He has to have
53:15a kanga,
53:17a comb,
53:18to keep his hair cut.