Zakir Naik – Avoiding Wearing the Label for Fear of Spoiling the Name of Islaam
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The
way that I posed a question
that there are certain Muslims
who say and argue that we don't wear
the label, the cap, and the beard, because
there are times that we may indulge in
wrong activities, un Islamic activities like bribing, cheating,
telling lies. So we don't want to spoil
the name of Islam. They are concerned
They're concerned about Islam. So therefore, they say
we don't want to wear the label.
There are 2 types of people.
1 is a pessimist, and one is an
optimist.
The pessimist is the person who always thinks
at the negative angle,
and there are such people who you're quoting.
We don't want to wear the label because
sometime, once in a blue moon, women do
wrong activity like bribing, cheating, telling lies, so
we don't spoil the name of Islam.
So I tell them that why don't you
be an optimist?
That if you know that sometimes you do
bad things, and once you start wearing the
label,
the cap and the beard, and suppose
it happens
that the opportunity arises that you have to
bribe,
you start thinking, oh, now I'm wearing the
label. How can I bribe? And you will
not bribe balangdulillah.
If the opportunity comes out you can cheat,
and you realize, oh, I'm wearing a label.
How can I spoil the name of this
son? You will not cheat.
If you have to tell a lie to
support
what you're saying and you realize, oh, I'm
wearing a label, cap and the beard, You
will not
lie. Irrespective whether it benefits you in this
world or not, it will inshallah.
Inshallah, it
will benefit you.
And I ended my talk by quoting the
verse of the Quran from Surah Isra chapter
731,
that if you're a Muslim,
Muslim means a person who submits
He's proud to be a Muslim.
He's proud to submit to Allah
Proud to follow religion of Haqq.
If he's truly a Muslim, he should also
follow the Haqq.
And if he's on the heart of the
Quran
chapter 17
was
81, falsehood
perishes. For falsehood is by its nature bound
to perish. So what I tell such people,
that if you feel that once in a
while if you do wrong activities,
and if you wear the label, it will
spoil the name of a label.
Instead of being a pessimist, you become an
optimist.
You wear a label, and
it will make you a better Muslim.
And if you're so much concerned about the
Muslim mumma, and the name of Islam, it
will, besides helping the Muslim mumma, it will
even help you.
It will help you and see to it
that you remain
on Hope that answers the question.