Zakir Naik – Living in Pakistan How To Study Comparative Religion for Dawah
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As-salamu alaykum, Dr. Sahib.
Walaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Muhammad Nawaz, University teacher from Peshawar, Pakistan.
Alhamdulillah, I have studied the Quran.
I want to study other religions.
What way should I adopt to study comparative
religion?
If there are your lectures in which you
have taught the way, so please share the
link.
The brother said that he has studied the
Quran, he wants to study comparative religion.
So can I guide him which lecture should
he refer to?
Is there any talk of mine, any program
where I teach about comparative religion?
There are many of my talks, my public
lectures which are on comparative religion and there
are books written by me.
Since you are from Pakistan, you can surely
in the religions that you should concentrate more
on comparative religion is Hinduism and Christianity.
Since these two religions are the religions which
are maximum followed besides Islam.
So if you want to study on comparative
religion, Hinduism, my talk on similarities between Hinduism
and Islam is a very good talk.
You can even refer to my talk on
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the various world
religious scriptures.
You can refer to my talk on Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Hindu scriptures.
There is also a talk of mine concept
of God image over religion.
Regarding Hinduism, you can refer to my talk
as well as my book on similarities between
Islam and Christianity.
You can refer to my book on Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the Bible and the
other lectures and books on concept of God
image over religion, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam in
the various world religious scriptures and various lectures
of mine are there on comparative religion like
Salah, the program of righteousness.
These talks, if you hear, it is mainly
based on one of the important verses of
Dawah where Allah says in the Quran, in
Surah Imran, chapter number 3, verse number 64,
Qul Jahlil Kitab, three or four pages of
the book.
Ta'ala ila kalimatin sawa im bainuna mainakum.
Come to common terms, ask us and you.
Which is the first term?
Allah na'amuda izzallah.
That we worship none but Allah.
Wala nushrika bihi shayyam.
That we associate no partner with the thing.
Wala ittakhidha ba'dhuna ba'dhana arba'a bimrindunillah.
That we erect not among ourselves lords and
pits other than Allah.
Fainthawallahu.
Then if you turn back.
Fakullu shaddu.
Say it by vectors.
Bi anna muslimun.
That we are Muslims bowing our heads to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So this is the master key for Dawah.
Allah says Ta'ala ila kalimatin sawa im
bainuna mainakum.
Come to common terms, ask us and you.
So while doing Dawah to a non-Muslim,
it's very important that if you start with
common terms, inshallah you'll be able to break
the ice and you'll be successful.
So you can start talking about common terms
and Allah reminds us here in this verse.
The most important is Allah na'amuda izzallah.
That we worship none but Allah.
Wala nushrika bihi shayyam.
That we associate no partner with the thing.
So while you're doing Dawah, you can start
with things which are common for example science
or maybe literature or whatever you feel is
common between the person you're speaking and yourself
or the religion who you're talking about and
Islam but your main aim should be Tawhid.
You may convince him to be truthful, you
may convince him not to have alcohol, you
may convince him not to have pork but
if you do not remove the shirk from
the life of your friend or the person
you're talking to, your Dawah is useless.
The most important is Tawhid.
You can talk about other things but the
most important is Tawhid.
If you're not able to remove the shirk
in his life, if you're not able to
instill Tawhid, your Dawah is useless.
So in comparative religion, the most important point
of comparative religion is the concept of God
in major world religions.
If you're speaking to a Christian, you should
try and prove Tawhid from the Bible.
First you have to prove that Jesus Christ
peace be upon him.
He never claimed divinity and we can prove
from the Bible and I say that in
my talk and in my book.
There is not a single unequivocal statement in
the complete Bible where Jesus Christ peace be
upon him says that he is God or
he says worship me.
He says I am God or he says
worship me and you can hear my talks.
So similarly when you're doing Dawah to a
Hindu, your first concept should be that you
should remove the idol worship from the life
of the Hindu.
Prove to him that according to the Vedas
there is one God, you should worship him
alone almighty God has got no image.
So your first aspect of Dawah is Tawhid.
Concept of one God that you worship him
alone and no one else.
So while doing Dawah this is the most
important aspect.
So first you should master the commonalities between
the concept of God and Islam and other
religion and try and win him over to
Tawhid.
The second most important aspect while doing Dawah
which is the pillar of Islam.
First pillar, we bear witness that there is
no God but Allah and we bear witness
that Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
The second aspect of Dawah is to prove
to the non-Muslim that Prophet Muhammad is
the last and final messenger of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
You can start with you know proving him
about science if you think he is a
man of science.
No problem but your final goal should be
first Tawhid, second is Risalah that Prophet Muhammad
is the last and final messenger.
As I mentioned earlier I've given talks on
this topic.
Muhammad peace be upon him in the Bible
Muhammad peace be upon him in the Hindu
scriptures Muhammad peace be upon him in the
world religious scriptures and then you can go
on for Akhira and for Salah and various
aspects but these two are the most important
aspects and if you are able to convince
the non-Muslim on these two aspects, he
can enter the fold of Islam.
The remaining will follow.
As far as knowing the structure of how
should you be well-versed in compact religion
or how should you do Dawah, I would
advise you that you can visit our platform
Al-Hidayah.
Al-Hidayah is the largest Islamic video on
demand platform in the world.
It has the largest number of Islamic courses
in the world.
There are more than 200 Islamic courses on
that out of which many of the courses
are by me and many on compact religion
and there are thousands of hours of Islamic
video on this platform.
This platform is absolutely free.
You can visit it and there is a
course which is called as Let's Become Effective
Da'ee.
The International Dawah Training Program.
It's a long course and if you take
this course, there is a study guide, there
are questions, inshallah that will help you a
lot in the comparative religion and will help
you to become a good da'ee also.
Hope that answers the question.