Zakir Naik – First Time Knew that Prophet Muhammad – pbuh is Mentioned in Hindu Scripture
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, waalaikumussalam warahmatullahi
wabarakatuh.
My name is Muhammad Usman Khan and I
am from Kashmir working in Delhi NCR India.
I want to ask Dr Zakir Naik that
when did you first come to know that
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him is mentioned
in Hindu scriptures and what was your reaction?
I was really shocked when I first came
to know about it.
As I am working with Hindus I want
to give dawa to them.
Can you give me a few tips on
how I should initiate this conversation with them.
I am enrolled in dawa training program and
I request you please expedite the upload speed.
I have memorized a few of your references
from Hindu scriptures but how can I get
basic knowledge so that it should not give
an impression that I have not read these
scriptures and I have just memorized few passages.
I want to become a full time dai.
Can you give me a few contacts in
Delhi or any part in India who can
help me in the same.
Jazakallah khair.
Muhammad Usman Khan who is working in Delhi
has asked the question that maybe he heard
my talk on Muhammad peace be upon him
in the Hindu scriptures and he asked me
when did I first come to know that
Prophet Muhammad was mentioned in the Hindu scriptures
because when he came to me he was
shocked.
As you know that I was inspired by
Sheikh Ahmed Didad when I met him in
1997 and after a few years after that
I read this book by the title Muhammad
peace be upon him in the world religious
scriptures and another book Muhammad peace be upon
him in Hindu scriptures written by Vidyarthi, written
by Hindu and this was in the early
90s, maybe early 90s exactly I don't remember
early 90s or mid 90s and even I
was shocked no one had told me before
that Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was
mentioned in the scriptures and of course I
knew about Prophet Muhammad was mentioned in the
Bible, I knew many prophecies and when I
compared between the prophecies mentioned of Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam in the Bible and the prophecies
in the Hindu scriptures the prophecies in the
Hindu scriptures were multiple times more and Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentioned by name multiple times
more, multiple times more in the Hindu scriptures
than the Bible.
Bible, okay, you can memorize all the verses
and the references, but in Hindu scriptures, there
are too many, hundreds in the Bible that
are less than that.
So, and I started using that in the
question and answer session.
The first time I gave a talk on
this topic, similarities between Islam and Hinduism, I
gave this talk.
I remember it was in 2004 in Azad
Maidan in Bombay.
I remember Azad Maidan, that's a big, it's
a big ground.
And that time it was one of the
few largest lectures at that time.
You know, 18,000 people had come.
I know we had put, we had kept
18,000 chairs and about 20,000 people
attended the talk and that was the first
talk which was on a grand scale at
that time, in 2004.
And after that, I even gave a talk
on Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the religious
world scriptures and Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam in
the Hindu scriptures.
I gave in Chennai and the other parts.
So, all these three talks were closed in
2004, 5, 6, 7.
Yes, it did shock me.
And when I prepared for my talk on
similarities between Islam and Hinduism, I did a
lot of research.
Because in Christianity, it was easy.
Sheikh Nidaj made it so easy.
You read his books, you can even debate
with the Pope.
He gave it to you on a platter.
But there were very few books that were
written on Hinduism and Islam.
And I think this was the only book
I could find.
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam's new scriptures.
Then I did my own research and I
did some own study and read the scriptures.
Then I prepared this talk on similarities between
Islam and Christianity.
I tried to divide it in my own
way, comparing with the pillars of Islam, with
the pillars of Iman and various things, while
answering many question and answer sessions, regarding what
about Jihad mentioned in the Quran, Jihad mentioned
in the Hindu scriptures.
And all this what I have been saying
for the last few years, I compiled and
read and gave a new talk, similarities between
Islam and Hinduism.
Regarding your last question, that you have enrolled
in the Dawah Training Program, what the brother
is referring to is our new platform Al
-Hidayah, where we have a training course called
as Let s Become Effective Da'is, International
Dawah Training Program.
And we have launched this platform in 2021,
about three years ago.
And one of the courses is, which is
a USP, unique selling course, is Let s
Become Effective Da'is.
This is the recording of the training program
we did in Bombay, where we call 20
different Da'is or students from 12 different
countries.
We call them in Bombay.
It was for 45 days, 33 days of
training was there.
And we recorded this on 14 cameras.
And now we are editing and releasing it.
We have a program of editing one part
per month, because unlike before where we had
a big team of 300 people working in
the media, now our team is smaller.
And these programs have got 14 cameras, they
are 4K and 8K, very voluminous, very heavy.
So it takes multiple times more.
So each course is for about one and
a half to two hours of recording.
So the recording time for these courses take
double than that than a normal lecture.
And compared to us, Dr Zakir Naik, about
four to five times more.
So we have a policy of releasing one
part per month.
And even that sometimes we aren't able to
do it.
Sometimes it becomes one part in two months.
But of course, it will take years to
release.
So you can follow this course, see this
course, follow the course guide.
But as far as your knowledge on Hinduism
is concerned, I would request you to see
three of my cassettes.
Number one, a similarity between Islam and Hinduism.
Number two, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the
Hindu scriptures.
And then there are other question and answer
sessions.
So if you hear these talks of mine
and these questions, so if you go through
Ask Dr Zakir and see all the questions
on Hinduism, or see all my questions in
public lectures, we deal with Hinduism, this inshallah
will give you knowledge regarding a question that
how can I, I memorize these verses, but
how can I give the impression that I
know a lot.
You should not give false impression.
As a dahi, you should not give false
impression.
If you really want to know, read the
scriptures, I would advise you to read the
scriptures.
If you read Bhagavad Gita, it's not very
voluminous, read it.
So the references I've given, okay, read the
references, memorize those references, and read the book
Bhagavad Gita or some of the books you
know.
So at least you have an idea.
Or what you can do if you cannot
read the full Ramayana, read the shorter version.
There are many versions available, short, medium, long,
very long, very voluminous.
So if you want, or you see my
video cassettes, and you just repeat it.
If someone tells you where you found it
from, I heard it from Dr Zakir Naik.
Is it authentic?
You check it up.
It's been checked.
So you don't have to give a false
impression that you are Dr Zakir Naik.
You don't have to give a false impression
that you have read thousands of books on
Hinduism.
No.
You have to be honest.
But some books are which are popular and
not very time consuming is the Bhagavad Gita.
It will just take a few hours or
little bit more for you to read the
full Bhagavad Gita.
Even that has got different volumes, etc.
But naturally the important books are the Vedas.
If you hear my talks, you'll find out.
So you don't have to give a false
impression regarding do you have any contacts in
Delhi or India.
You don't require contacts.
Everything is available now on the social media.
You don't have to go to that city
to learn.
To meet me, you don't have to come
here.
You can meet me on the social media,
on the satellite, on the television.
To gain knowledge, now it's easy, everything, the
whole world has become a global village.
You can Google, you can see the videos,
you can see Peace TV, you can see
the speakers of Peace TV.
And if you go on the social media,
if you go on Alhiday, it's better.
If you go on Alhiday, you can select.
It is a social media which is a
paid social media.
Unlike YouTube or Facebook, we can only upload
videos.
But the way you can see on Alhiday
as fast superior, we have made it absolutely
free.
And one more good thing I'd like to
mention that in the last couple of months,
we have launched the OTT platform.
That's over the top, where we are available
on various different platforms, not only on the
free social media, we are available on the
mobile, whether it's already there for many years,
whether it be iOS or whether it be
Android, whether on the web, whether it be
Safari, Chrome.
Now we have gone on various televisions.
We are available in Samsung, on LG, on
Sony, on Haysen, on Fire, on Roku.
So in the last few months, we have
gone on OTT platforms, over the top.
And this is a streaming which doesn't require
satellite.
But we are there on the satellite for
many years, Mashallah, since 2006.
So now it's about more than 18 years
that we are on the satellite.
We are there on the social media, the
free social media.
We went on the paid social media, that
is Alhiday.
And now recently, past few years, we have
gone OTT.
That's over the top, streaming.
You can see on your television, you don't
require the satellite.
You can come through the internet, you know,
and in this way, the reach will increase.
So surely you can get a lot of
knowledge.
You don't have to have a satellite.
Besides the pitched TV, besides the free social
media, besides the paid social media, the OTT
is also a very good platform.
Hope that answers the question.