Zakir Naik – Lecture 6 – Sialkot Pakistan – 21st Oct 2024 Highlights

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The speaker discusses the importance of schools in the region and the need for students to learn the language of the Qur
the language of the region. They also mention the need for students to learn the language of the region and ask for guidance on how to become a doctor. The speaker concludes by expressing their belief that schools should be of good quality and reduce their reliance on Muslims.

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			Alhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalam ala rasulillah wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi ajmain, amma baad.
		
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			A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim, bismillahir rahmanir
		
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			raheem.
		
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			Iqra' bismi rabbika l-lazee khalaq, khalaq al
		
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			-insana min alaq.
		
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			Rabbish al-sadri, wa salli amri, wa ahlul
		
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			umdata min al-lisani afqaw qawli.
		
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			My respected elders and my dear brothers, assalamu
		
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			alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			I had heard a lot about Sialkot, that
		
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			it is a city of sports goods, where
		
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			football is made, and many sports, whether it
		
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			is cricket or bat, hockey sticks are made.
		
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			So, Alhamdulillah, today I am in Sialkot.
		
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			I have to give a message in this
		
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			opening, that today we see that most of
		
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			the Muslims, as far as education is concerned,
		
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			look towards the western world, and proudly say,
		
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			my son is studying in America.
		
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			When I go to rich people's houses, they
		
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			want to tell me that my son is
		
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			studying in Harvard.
		
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			My son is free, he is free from
		
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			Jamutul Imam in Riyadh.
		
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			Jamutul Imam is one of the best Islamic
		
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			universities in the world.
		
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			My two daughters are free from Jamutul Noorah,
		
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			which is one of the biggest women's universities
		
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			in the world.
		
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			So, I ask the Arabs, I ask the
		
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			Muslims, if your son graduates from Harvard and
		
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			becomes an MBA, or if he becomes a
		
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			doctor or an engineer from a UK university,
		
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			will they pray for you?
		
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			Will it be more acceptable that your son
		
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			graduates from an Islamic university?
		
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			Like Jamutul Imam, so his head goes down.
		
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			First of all, the guidance that Allah Almighty
		
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			gives to humans in the Qur'an, not
		
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			just for Muslims, but for the whole world,
		
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			is to say, read Iqra.
		
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			And often, a large number of Muslims do
		
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			not want to read.
		
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			Allah's message is not just Iqra.
		
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			The whole message is Iqra, in the name
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Read in the name of Allah.
		
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			The guidance that Allah Almighty gives to humans,
		
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			for every Muslim, whether he is a man
		
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			or a woman, the guidance that is obligatory
		
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			for every Muslim, is the basic knowledge of
		
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			our Creator, the basics of religion.
		
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			If we cannot recognize our Creator, then what
		
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			is our purpose in life?
		
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			If the knowledge that you acquire, your Creator
		
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			does not take it to his Lord, Allah
		
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			Almighty, then that knowledge may benefit you in
		
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			this world, you may earn money.
		
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			But in the hereafter, it has no benefit.
		
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			If that knowledge takes you to your Lord,
		
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			takes you closer to Allah, Inshallah, in the
		
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			hereafter, it is beneficial.
		
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			It is beneficial in this world too.
		
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			You will not find it beneficial.
		
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			So today, our institutions should be better than
		
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			western institutions, even in technology.
		
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			If you read history, in the 8th and
		
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			9th century, Europeans used to say, this era
		
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			is the era of darkness.
		
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			For whom?
		
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			For Europeans.
		
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			Not for the world.
		
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			The progress that the world made in the
		
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			8th, 9th and 10th century, but who progressed?
		
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			We Muslims.
		
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			We Muslims progressed so much, that if you
		
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			want to do research on science, it is
		
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			necessary for you to learn Arabic.
		
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			Which person is better, who calls people to
		
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			Allah, and does good deeds, and says, I
		
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			am a Muslim.
		
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			So the best profession, according to Allah, is
		
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			that of a doctor.
		
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			The profession of a doctor, is better than
		
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			all professions in the world.
		
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			How many colleges do we have to make
		
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			a doctor?
		
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			How many are there in Pakistan?
		
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			To make a doctor, I am not talking
		
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			about Islamic colleges.
		
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			If you learn the language of the Qur
		
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			'an, learn the language of the Qur'an,
		
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			and what you will get, is incomparable.
		
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			It is a pity that our institutions, what
		
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			we would have done, we would have taken
		
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			western education, we would have made it Islamic.
		
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			This is written in the Qur'an, in
		
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			Surah An-Nabiyah, Do the disbelievers not see,
		
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			that we were one in the whole universe,
		
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			and we made an explosion, and it did
		
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			not explode.
		
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			This Big Bang, which we came to know,
		
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			50 years ago, 60 years ago, it is
		
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			written 1400 years ago in the Qur'an.
		
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			But we send our children that education, America,
		
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			England, Europe.
		
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			After three years, that father comes, Zakir Bhai,
		
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			please give guidance to my children, they are
		
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			your fans.
		
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			What happened?
		
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			He ran away.
		
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			What is he doing?
		
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			He is committing adultery.
		
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			What is he doing?
		
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			He is taking drugs.
		
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			What is he saying?
		
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			My son has gone to become a girl.
		
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			We, in our country, in our city, should
		
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			establish such institutions, that people forget to go
		
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			out.
		
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			You establish any institution, it should have 10
		
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			times more applications.
		
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			Then your institution is of good level.
		
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			If you have 100 seats, then 1000 applications
		
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			should come.
		
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			If the demand is more than supply, people
		
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			will respect you.
		
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			So if we establish such an institute, which
		
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			is of good quality, reduce it, but make
		
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			it of good quality.
		
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			You will see, Inshallah, our numbers will rise
		
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			again.
		
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			In today's date, we are more than 25
		
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			% in the world.
		
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			8 billion out of 2 billion are Muslims.
		
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			Never in the world, in history, Muslims were
		
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			not so many in the world.
		
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			What is this condition?
		
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			You are beating everywhere.
		
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			This is because we Muslims have left the
		
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			Qur'an and Hadith.
		
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			Inshallah, if we come again close to the
		
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			Qur'an and Hadith, if we act on
		
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			it, then Inshallah, we will reach the top
		
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			of the world again.
		
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			I pray to Allah Almighty, that may Allah
		
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			guide us all, to act on the Qur
		
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			'an and Hadith.
		
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			And I pray to Allah Almighty, that may
		
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			He take us all, Inshallah, to heaven together.
		
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			And the end is near.
		
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			All praise is due to the Lord of
		
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			the worlds.