Zakir Naik – No Sin in Killing Animals for Food

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The speaker discusses the issue of eating animals for pleasure and survival, but acknowledges that eating is not the only way to survive. He uses the examples of the Quran and Surah mominon to explain the permitted use of animals for survival.

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			Brother, you're most welcome to
ask any question. I don't feel
		
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			hurt at all. I know I'm not
contradicting any of you
		
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			contradicting. No problem, it's my
job. I'm a die. It's my
		
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			profession. You can criticize me.
You can criticize the Quran. I'm
		
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			young, but I can take it.
Alhamdulillah. No problem,
		
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			brother, I don't get agitated. You
can ask any questions. No problem.
		
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			Brother, the question. He said
that when I said in my talk that
		
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			you cannot kill for pleasure of
hunting, I said, a pleasure
		
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			hunting. You cannot kill any
animal, just without any purpose.
		
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			Pleasure of hunting here we don't
eat non veg only for taste. We eat
		
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			for our sustenance. So if you say
we can't eat animals, we can't eat
		
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			plants, also what we'll eat. How
will we survive?
		
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			How will you survive? So
		
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			clarify, I'm not asking if I'm
eating it for necessity. Suppose I
		
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			think, Okay, this animal food is
going to be tasty. I want to kill
		
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			it for my personal pleasure alone,
not I'm feeling hunger. I think,
		
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			is it also a sin if it's for
eating, for eating tasty food,
		
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			also no problem. You have to eat.
If you don't eat, you can't
		
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			survive. If you don't eat, you
can't survive. So Almighty God and
		
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			meshes Manu smithy, chapter number
five, verse number 30, some
		
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			animals have been created to eat,
some to be eaten. No, but I have
		
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			read it just asking your point of
view. Is it wrong of you? Is it
		
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			wrong to kill animal on the basis
of just merely taste pleasure. It
		
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			is not wrong at all to kill an
animal, even if you want to have
		
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			tasty as long as it is for food.
Okay? Thank you. Why? Because
		
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			Quran gives permission in Surah
mahidha chapter five, verse number
		
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			one, manushmiti gives you do not
know what I want to tell people
		
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			that I believe in this part of
manusmu, the other part I may not
		
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			believe, but this part of Manu
smithy, I believe chapter five,
		
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			verse 30, that Almighty God
created some animals to eat, some
		
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			to be eaten. So if you eat the
animals which have been created to
		
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			be eaten, you're not doing a sin.
Similarly, Quran also says certain
		
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			animals have been created to be
eaten, but if you eat the other
		
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			animals which have not been
created for eating, minutes of
		
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			sin. So those catches a sheep,
etc, which are permitted in the
		
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			Quran that if you eat for food,
even if it's tasty food. No
		
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			problem. Some people want to have
vegetable, tasty vegetable. Some
		
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			people like brinjal, some people
like Eddie finger. So no problem.
		
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			If I agree with you that nothing
should be eaten, then you will
		
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			have to kill either the plant or
the animal. So while eating, if
		
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			you're eating good things, as long
as you're not wasting If you waste
		
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			food, it is wrong. If you waste
food, it is wrong. So if you kill
		
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			for eating for sustenance, even if
it's tasty, no problem. It's
		
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			permitted. It's mentioned the
Quran. Surah Mada chapter five,
		
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			verse number one. Surah Niel
chapter 60, verse number five, as
		
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			well as Surah mominon chapter 23
verse 21 hope that's the question
		
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			you.