Zakir Naik – Islam Sets the Factors that Maintain Brotherhood
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The speaker discusses the importance of Islam's universal brotherhood and its negative consequences, such as violence and criminal activity. The speaker also discusses the importance of providing aid to neighborly people and avoiding bribery. The speaker concludes that spending money on charity is a waste of one's wealth and should be a means to improve their lives.
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Allah
who we believe
is almighty God is not
exclusively God
only for the Muslims or the Arabs.
He is almighty God for all the worlds.
For all the human beings.
Whether black or
white. Yellow or brown.
Rich or poor.
Whichever part of the world they live in.
And Allah says in the Quran surah Faatiya
chapter number 1 verse number 2.
Alhamdulillahi
rabbilalameen.
Praise
be to Allah,
the lord of the worlds. Lord of all
the worlds.
Allah says
in Surinath,
chapter number
114,
verse number 1.
Rab bin Nas, he's the lord of humankind,
Of all the human beings.
We believe Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the
lord of all the human beings.
And there are guidelines
given in the Quran
to promote
universal brotherhood.
Allah says in surah maidah, chapter number 5,
verse number 32.
Here Allah says
that if you kill
any other human being, whether Muslim or non
Muslim,
unless it be for murder or for spreading
corruption in the land, if you kill any
innocent human being, it is as though you
have killed the whole of humanity.
And if you save any human being, whether
Muslim or non Muslim, it is as though
you have saved the whole nation, all the
human beings.
Therefore,
murder is one of the major sins in
Islam.
This disrupts
universal brotherhood.
Therefore, Islam prohibits it.
Killing any innocent human being is prohibited.
Allah also says
that robbing is prohibited.
Allah says in Surah Mayadah chapter number 5
verse number 38
that man and woman should not rob.
And the third pillar of Islam is zakat.
That is every rich human being
who has a saving of more than the
nissab level,
more than 85 grams of gold, he or
she
should give 2.5%
of that excess wealth in charity every lunar
year.
If every rich human being in the world
gives zakat,
poverty will be eradicated from this world. There
will not be a single human being who
will die of hunger.
Zakat and charity
increases the universal birth hold, and decreases the
gap between the rich and the poor.
Allah says in chapter number 107.
Verse number 1 to 7.
See it thou not the one who denies
the day of judgement.
Who treats
the orphan with harshness.
And does not encourage
the feeding of the indigent.
Woe to those
who are neglectful of the prayers. Woe to
those who pray only to be seen by
men.
And they do not even provide neighborly needs.
So Allah says, if you provide neighborly needs,
it encourages brotherhood.
It's the duty of Muslims
to help the neighbors. And our beloved prophet
Muhammad
said that he is not a Muslim
who sleeps
with his full stomach while the neighbor is
hungry.
That means,
Islam does not give you permission
to sleep with a full tummy
when your neighbor is hungry, when your neighbor
doesn't have food to eat. Allah says in
the Quran, in surisra,
chapter number 17,
verse number 2627.
There do not be a spendthrift.
Do not be extra wagon in spending money.
For verily,
a spend thrift
is the brother of the devil.
So if you are a spend thrift,
it discourages
universal brotherhood.
And being a spendthrift
is a sign
of the brother of a devil.
Allah says in Suri Baqarah, chapter number 2,
verse the 188.
Allah
says in Suri Baqarah chapter number 2, verse
1 88. That spend not your wealth as
a bait for the judges
in order to eat up other people's wealth.
Here, Allah says in Surah Baqarah chapter 2
or 188
that bribing is prohibited,
which is very common in the world today.
If you bribe, it disrupts the universal