Zakir Naik – Muslims are Lagging behind in terms of Technology; How can They Address this Issue

			You talked about something very fundamental, you know, that affects us. You know, he talked about
the role of media in all of this complex, and perhaps what media can also do in terms of championing
the cause of the oppressed, you know, the people that have been killed and so on and so forth. But
Islam as a religion is facing, huge challenge his huge deficit in terms of technological
advancement, to some will say, this is also another setback, you know, technology driven world, the
Muslim ummah somewhat left behind. Why do you think this is happening? How can how can this be
addressed? You know, as you said that Islam is facing a problem of the technology I would like to
		

			correct you should say Muslim, not Islam. That's the top the problem is Muslim, Muslim, they cannot
harm Islam. Islam is cannot be harmed, Muslims can not Islam, and Muslim Ummah Muslim, the problem
with the Muslim ummah, again, you know, previously, if you see from the eighth to the 10th century,
the Europeans called it the Dark Ages. If you read history of science, in the scientific world,
eighth to the 10th century, the Europeans called it the Dark Ages. But they fail to realize that the
Muslims was so much advanced that time, the amount of advances we made in in science and technology,
in medicine, in chemistry, if you know father of chemistry, he's a Muslim, who Yeah, you have many
		

			example it may seem and I've given a talk on I don't want to give that so Muslim on top of the
world. For that time, from the eighth to the 10th century. If you wanted to know Sanjay to learn
Arabic language. It was international language that time the best language that time the Muslims are
close to granulysin. Therefore we were top of the world today. We have gone away from Quran and
Sunnah. Therefore we are at the bottom of the world. Not that Muslim non powerful in media, where I
come from Bombay. Bollywood, produces the maximum number of movies in the world more than Hollywood
also, do you know 1/3 of Bollywood is controlled by the Muslims. The producers are Muslim, the best
		

			actor Muslims, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, America and all the Muslims. They may not be practicing,
but they control high quality you go to the Arab world, all top channels what you don't get English
movies being released. In America, you get in the middle of channels. So those channels are spending
money, they're on top of the world. But when it comes to Islamic channels, we are Miskin Miskin me
very poor. We are hardly on one or two satellite Yeah, we are to me we launched the champion the
Peace TV, we know exactly why I asked you that question. We launch the reason Yes, normally the
satellite channel what is the embryo to the bandwidth? If asked what is the bandwidth of this
		

			channel? How many MB two three. Our bandwidth one one satellite is 10 MB we have what four satellite
channels beach TV English pitch TV will do? Which TV will nappies TV Chinese beach TV English alone
is on 15 satellites having a viewership of 100 million potential viewers 2 billion potential viewer
misses coming into the house they may or may not watch. may watch may not watch actually use it 100
million beach TV
		

			was launched in 2009 English 2006 Now it is about 17 years old PC English, or SMDs. Then ODU was
launched in 2009 Having a wish of 80 million. They will not be Stevie Bangla in 2011. Having a
viewership of 50,000,002. The other 15 will not be Steve Chinese having a vision 20 million, but the
quality what we did we analyze the channels which are haram entertainment, but we took the
technology which is halal, but the product content is haram. So we take the technology which is
halal. And we use it for that. And that's the reason the viewership increased. But as is not a news
channel, there are different genres. Yes. So we don't talk about politics as more of a edutainment
		

			channel,
		

			entertainment channel, we call them Islamic entertainment channel. It is a new level of your
channel, but the quality of us we were the first people in the world, right? When we launched our
pitch TV 2005 We use the best broadcast cameras, DG beta, then we agreed to it now, in 2015. We said
no, we will not be the best camera for broadcast, we will use best camera in the world. So we
started using shooting on 4k and 8k with different cameras. We were the first channel in the world.
No entertainment channel, why we are the reason that our shoot when our scholars come and give a
talk and when they die. This product will be invaluable and we shot on 4k and 8k better technology.
		

			So how can you feel the full Muslim Ummah? Yes, I do agree with the majority majority are far away.
Okay, that's exactly where I'm far away. You know, looking at partnership forging partnership, you
know, with other
		

			Like mines, no other partners around the world beyond the immediate environment talking about India
and you know, neighboring countries, perhaps coming down to Africa, where there's this deficit in
terms of technology and technological know how, especially within the media industry, how much of
partnerships of course they see are saying when I came in 2013 I bought my own cameras. I flew about
40 people from India. They came with me they shot 10 years back your because now the Indian
government has made it here from India to Malaysia and they have taken custody of all my cameras. I
hide from here and do you know, the one I bought 10 years back is multiple times better than the
		

			trauma the head from you? That camera didn't doesn't have into effects nine they don't have. So then
I bought my camera from Malaysia three cameras and the batteries I bought from Lagos technologies
way behind 10 years back, what I own is not available anywhere in the country today the whole of
Nigeria. What I'm telling you can buy it but they think if I buy the expensive camera, they do
business. They fail to realize you do business with Allah. If you shoot the high quality, what we do
we shoot in 4k and 8k and then downgraded to HD V telecast in HD, we're forgetting because it's not
that populate, so we shoot on the 14 8k with the best of cameras, and we downgrade it. There is no
		

			channel in the world. On the Sony website. It came the first TV channel, which have 14 4k and 8k
camera is pitch TV. It came on the website in 2015.