Assalaam Alaikum to all brothers,
I would like to ask Mr. Jamshed Iqbal, What actually is it about Dr. Zakir Naik, that is bothering him? Is it the attention (fame) he is getting or is it the Money he (or his organization) makes? Nothing Mr. Jamshed Iqbal wrote proves anything against Dr. Zakir Naik. The truth is evident to everyone, He has devoted his life to making "Dawah". Hundreds (if not thousands) of people across the globe have accepted (reverted to) Islam because of his services to deen, Alhamdulillah and the numbers increase with each passing day, Masha'Allah! If you have a problem digesting these facts then I suggest you find a way to deal with it. Kindly do not defame nor obstruct the way of those who dedicate their life for the sake of Allah, They have enough opposition (from other religeous leaders) to deal with as it is. If you think he is not going about his duty appropriately then why don't you show him the proper way. I request all my muslim brothers not to discuss/debate or criticize the Shia & Sunni practices. We have enough enemies of islam and we need to stand united to face the challenges ahead. Best Regards & Allah Hafiz. Nadeem. To: islamcity@yahoogroups.com From: Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:47:19 -0800 Subject: RE: Re :Re: Bismillah [IslamCity] Dr. Zakir Naik - Defame And Destroy. I think the best way to sort this would be to log on to www.abubakr.org. I would request everybody to go through it and to discuss the views so that a cleaerer understanding of the issues can be raised. Was salaam S --- On Sat, 2/28/09, ab...@yahoo.com <ab...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: ab...@yahoo.com <ab...@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: Re :Re: Bismillah [IslamCity] Dr. Zakir Naik - Defame And Destroy. To: "eGroup For Muslims Around The World" <islamcity@yahoogroups.com> Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 7:08 AM There are two versions which according to me are shiah and sunni. One has to read the khutba Hajjatul Wida (The Last Sermon) which mentions the Holy Quran and Holy Prophet's Sunnah and the other Ahlul Bait for which sunnis also hold them in respect. Abdul Wahid Osman Belal To: islamc...@yahoogrou ps.com From: Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:34:11 +0000 Subject: Re :Re: Bismillah [IslamCity] Dr. Zakir Naik - Defame And Destroy. Ahlus sunnah wal Jamaah respects the family of the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam) and also the companions of the Prophet. Unfortunately, shia have gone extreme in the religion by taking the family of Prophet as intermediaries, and by abusing the companions of the Prophet such as Umar and Abu Bakr(may Peace be upon them). Dr. Zakir Naik says what the scholars of the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah say. If you are criticizing Dr. Zakir Naik, then you are also criticizing the stand of the Ahlus sunnsh wal Jamaah. visit www.islam-qa. com on issues relating to the deviance of the shia. On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:55:31 -0800 (PST) islamc...@yahoogrou ps.com wrote Mr. Shafi wrote "However, Islam is a name of Quran o Hadith, " Either we accept his statement or not in both cases he has to defend his faith. A) Suppose Quran & Hadith is Islam though its not supported by Nas-e-Quran, which is Quran & Prophet's Sunnah. Shia & Sunni unanimously agreed that theres no hadith is as authentic,as Mutawatir, as consistent as Hadith-e-Thaqalain- -Only Shia & majority of sunni found this hadith as binding as consistent it is. Prophet says I am leaving behind Quran & Ahlul-Baith stick with them--Hadith does not end here--It continues--Until they reach me at Hoz-e-Kausar. So Quran & Ahlul Baith are inseperable until the judgment day--Its possible Zakir Naik preach Tauheed in his style & convert few hindus but it does not give him certificate of Sirat-e-Mustaqeem. Islam is nothing but obedience to Allah & obedience to Prophet(saw) because of obedience to Prophet as per His command obedience to Ahlul Baith is also Islam & essential part of Eiman. Zakir Naik could never be bigger Maowwahid than Shaitan Iblees but he digressed as Shaitan when he thought he knew better than Allah how to worship Him. Worship means nothing but obedience--disregar ding ahlul baith is as bad deviation as that of Shaitan. --- On Sat, 2/14/09, muham...@yahoo. com wrote: From: muham...@yahoo. com Subject: Re: Bismillah [IslamCity] Dr. Zakir Naik - Defame And Destroy. To: "eGroup For Muslims Around The World" Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 2:35 AM Dear All concerned. There is no Wahabism Islam in the World. A man with the name of Muhammad Bib Abdul Wahab who is follower of Mazhab of Imam Ahmed Bin Hamble (RA). Imam Ahmed Bib Hamble (Hambly Mazhab) is one out of four Mazhabs. It is said that these four Mazhabs are on Haq. Even then some persons having no knowledge of Islam do not hesitate to blame the Mazhab of Imam Ahmed Bin Hamble (RA). When we say that these four Mazhabs came into existance more than 100 years after the completion of Islam, and are not on the right path, even then some says that these four Mazhabs are on the right path. This is the admission of those people who blame Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahab (Hambly Mazhab) as on right path and on the other hand these people blame Hambly Mazhab as on the wrong path. However, Islam is a name of Quran o Hadith, the follower of these two books are also consideredWahabi by Qabar Parast group. Even I have seen some non-sense people who are basically from Mazhab Hanfi declare to the follower of Hanfi Mazhab as Wahabi. They have no sense of Islam. Mr. Zakir Naik from India is a great schollar of Islam. He has won so many Munazras with ghair Muslims. He is true follower of Islam. I have seen on Internet that so many Hindus and other people have converted / accepted Islam with his struggle and knowledge. May Allah give him more courage to spread true Islam in the continent. Please do not hear / take care of such mails which are spread to defame schollare of Islam. Thanks. Shafi --- On Tue, 10/2/09, sai...@yahoo. com wrote: From: sai...@yahoo. com Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Dr. Zakir Naik - Defame And Destroy. To: "eGroup For Muslims Around The World" Date: Tuesday, 10 February, 2009, 4:33 AM Dr. Zakir Naik - Defame And Destroy. Jamshed Iqbal One comes across several interesting comments from the people who have been defending Mr. Zakir Naik on Indian Muslims Blog. Most of my brothers and sisters are impressed by his “immense knowledge” without knowing that his kind of knowledge (database or retention) has nothing to do with religion at all. In other words the knowledge he and his fans boast of is irreligious in its very essence, for any true religion is an ever-flowing fountain of “wisdom” not “knowledge”. However, Mr. Naik is not an only man basking under this false impression but, it is pity that most of our so-called Muslim scholars are making the profits of same deceptive notion. And it is about this “subtle subversion” that Muslim world or Muslim identity has suffered a great deal. Therefore in this article, I would talk about a whole range of “scholars” of this nature and use the name of Mr. Naik as an “all-purpose unit” to bring my point home. A wise man may have some knowledge but “it does not necessitate that every knowledgeable man is wise”. For knowledge comes with analysis but wisdom with synthesis. Analysis demands scattering the whole into parts and pieces, on the contrary, synthesis demands uniting and reassembling the parts, once again, into a whole. Men of knowledge without wisdom are far more harmful for human family than mad men. For knowledge without wisdom lacks comprehensiveness of vision, feelings, beauty and empathy. Therefore it is not beneficial at all, and in religious terms, it is irreligious! How? A man of knowledge studies the composition of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge, and incidentally places it in the hands of powerful lunatics as the means of destroying the human race. In such ways the pursuit of knowledge may become harmful unless it is combined with wisdom; and wisdom in the sense of comprehensive vision is not necessarily present in specialists in the pursuit of any kind of knowledge. The point is “so-called men of knowledge lack comprehensive vision that is necessary to make them wise”. Ask, for example, a man of science to define human being! If he is sociologist he will tell you that, “man is a social animal for he cannot live without society”. Ask the same question to a physicist and he would brief you about “material composition of a human being” and reduce it to material hump. Raise this question before a chemist and get ready to listen that “man is nothing but product or composition of different chemicals”. A chemist would also open your eyes by telling that “man is a chemical animal and his emotions and character is mainly controlled by chemical balance or imbalance”. Go to a biologist to listen, “human being is an organism composed of different organs”. See a human being have been dissected into piece and lost! Even if all of these definitions cannot include what makes a human being a human being! Definitions, I mean to say, are the foundations of analytical thinking and they always fail to spot the core—the essence. For example, in above definition of human person, what makes human person a human person is nowhere, as no definition could be holistic! Moreover, in definition, metaphor or simile, as logic demands, is not allowed to make analytical thinking free from feelings but religious wisdom or morality is absurd or impossible without feelings! There is no room for aesthetics (beauty) in analysis and morality or wisdom gushes from these two springs as well! I think Islam is very clear about this point as: “Allah is beautiful and loves beauty”. Allah (The Supreme Reality) is truth and truth cannot be revealed unto those whose whole effort is demystification and dissection! Has analysis anything to do with “love”? Isn’t beauty a mystery so beyond the logic (Allah Him/Herself) ? Have analytical sciences, from so-called Enlightenment Age onwards, not been trying to demystify the mysterious phenomenon of existence or being? Was it not an organized effort to obliterate God from human consciousness? Has sciences (knowledge not wisdom) not been consciously trying to omit suggestiveness from natural phenomena to make it dull and ugly! There have a tendency among Quranic scholars—the tendency to count! For example word (or Ism-e-Zat) Allah has been used so many times in Quran. Mr. Zakir Naik, and others of course, can safely claim 10 GB memory containing these types of calculations. But, so far as I know, no one has told that how many similes and metaphors are used in Quran. How many attributes of Allah (the beneficent the merciful) reflect rationality and others feelings or emotions? Mr. Zakir Naik could not deny that Prophet Mohammad’s (May peace by upon him) holy life is an evergreen epic of compassion and empathy—the gift “to feel” with others! Remember once my Lord was running for milking the sheep to feed a crying cat when West was not familiar with “animal rights”! Was it analysis or feeling—feeling with and for the whole creation? Islam is known to be the highest point of Abrahamic tradition and Prophet Abraham dived into the fire! A rationalist or an analyst (or a man of knowledge) would never think that fire could behave otherwise! In short the whole range of knowledge mounted up by sciences is of analytical nature, and therefore today, world is rich with knowledge but poor in wisdom. For if it were rich in wisdom we would have been living in paradise! The main problem with our age is that our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge (rotted data) but there is a correlative “famine” of wisdom. Since wisdom includes not only intellect but also feelings, and this world is mostly steered by those whose knowledge is wide but feelings are too narrow! Therefore they have made it a hell of hatred! One of my brothers, Mr. Wasif, wrote about Zakir Naik’s comments about Sufi saints. According to him Zakir Naik says: “Sufism is an alien plant in the soil of Islam” These are actually the words of Allama Mohammad Iqbal (1877-1938) who, no doubt, was an extraordinarily profound and inspiring poet—but as a philosopher, he used to wear several hats of intellect like Herbert Spencer in Western philosophical tradition. Actually, as I think, his poetry and thought begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, then culminates into “grace metaphors” and finally goes on to profoundest thinking that we have. Mr. Zakir Naik should note that in his profundity—Iqbal himself is a Sufi! For example: Ik Danish-e-burhani, ik Danish-e-ruhani Hai Danish-e-burhani hairat ki frawani (One the one hand there is an argumentative/ logical wisdom, and, on the other hand spiritual wisdom! But argumentative/ logical wisdom is nothing but surplus of wonder…….) Qadhe khirad froze keh Frang dad mara Hama aftab lekin asar-e-sahar na darid (The shining wine cup of rationality offered by the West is the full Sun but powerless/impotent to bring into being lime light of the morning) Iqbal used to call himself a disciple (mureed hindi) of Jalal-ud-Din Rumi—the great Persian Sufi poet! Therefore, he was highly impressed by Persian influence on Islamic culture, community and thought. For example, in his famous chapter, The Muslim Community, in The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Iqbal writes: “The conquest of Persia gave to the Musalmans what the conquest of Greece gave to the Romans. But for Persian, our culture would have been absolutely one sided”. It is doubtless that Mr. Zakir Naik is advocating and pushing exclusively soulless, fanatical and chauvinistic Saudi (Wahhabi) version of Islam that has become a disgusting scar on the face of highly inclusive Islamic teachings! It is duty of Wahabism to wage war against teachings of great Sufi saints who kept the divinely prophet-consciousne ss alive not by preaching the truth but living like truth! Naik’s grudge towards Hussain (may Allah be pleased with him) is a clear sign that he is an agent of un-Islamic Saudi state employed to save her from Hussain who exposes and challenges Yazid of every age! Wahhabism is troubled by Sufism for it is a message of inclusiveness and tolerance! Wahhabism wages war against it for it is a message of freedom and core of Islam that is, in its essence anti- hierarchy and anti-establishment! Wahhabism is afraid of Sufism for it shows a beautiful face of Islam but Saudi’s allies (especially United States) are funding her to prove it ugly and dangerous for peaceful coexistence! Mr. Zakir Naik and all his friends are stakeholders in the highly lucrative and hideous business of a great conspiracy “Defame & Destroy”. For it is duty of Wahhabism to promote blameful and reproachably bigoted religiosity for facilitating its funders to wipe Muslims from the face of the earth by declaring them potentially dangerous creatures! May Allah save my innocent brothers and sisters in Islam from felling a prey to a vicious alliance! May Allah help us to show our non-Muslim brothers and sisters that Wahhabism is not the real face of Islam! Islam is one of the most inclusive religions wherein “ink of a scholar is holier than blood of a martyr” and “killing one human person is killing humanity”! Islam—that is a religion of heart, love, empathy and compassion! Amen! Jamshed Iqbal is a student and teacher of English literature and philosophy saiyed shahbazi www.shahbazcenter. org Get your preferred Email name! Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail. com. 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