Zakir Naik – Reject Waqf Amendment Bill

I would like to make an important announcement.

This is especially for all our dear brothers

and sisters in Islam in India.

This is regarding a new bill that was

tabled in the Indian parliament by the BGP

government, by the Modi government to amend the

Waqf Bill.

They tabled a couple of weeks back in

the parliament an amendment to the Waqf Bill

2024.

And what this BGP government is trying to

do along with its coalition, the NDA government,

is they are trying to usurp, trying to

take away the property of the Muslim Waqf

Board.

And many of you may not be aware

that the Muslim Waqf Board is the third

largest body which has the maximum land in

the whole of India.

The first two are government bodies, that is

the defence and the second is the Indian

railways.

And the third is the Muslim Waqf Board

which has 9.4 lakh acres of land,

which is approximately 41 billion square feet of

land.

That is more than 3,800 square kilometers.

It's the size of a small country.

So the Muslim Waqf Board of India has

the third largest bank.

It is the body which has the third

largest bank of land.

And let me tell my non-Muslim brothers

and sisters of India that this Waqf Board

property is not a public property.

Unlike the property belonging to the government, etc.,

this is a private property.

Waqf in Arabic means an endowment.

So this is not a public property.

It is a private property donated by Muslims

in the past, many centuries ago or decades

ago or recently.

It is Waqf, means an endowment for the

use of the Muslims.

It's a religious act.

Waqf for the cause of Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala.

And this is not a public property.

So no non-Muslim can interfere in this

religious.

And the Indian constitution has safeguarded the Waqf

property.

It is so secured and so stable.

But unfortunately, this anti-Islamic, anti-Muslim government,

the NDA, the BJP government, which is run

by the Prime Minister Modi, it is trying

to usurp, eat the property of the Muslim.

So my request, that with this amendment, what

are they trying to do?

They are trying to say, okay, now we

will reassess that if anything is a Waqf

property, goes in dispute, we'll have a board

that will assess whether actually it is Waqf

or not.

What is this?

It's mean, it's secure.

No one can interfere with it.

And they're trying to control it and trying

to put non-Muslims on this board.

What we have to do is, when they

table this in the parliament, this time, unlike

the last 10 years, unlike the last two

elections, the BJP alone had won with a

majority.

But in the recent election, they have a

coalition government.

And the opposition is also quite strong.

Previously, no opposition even had 5% of

seats.

So to be a leader of the opposition,

you have to have minimum 5% seats

of the parliament.

The Indian parliament has 543 seats.

You have to have minimum, minimum 54, 55

seats.

And this time, of course, there's an opposition

which is strong.

And they took objection.

That is the reason it has been sent

to the joint parliamentary board.

And the joint parliamentary board has given a

time limit till 13th of September.

If any Muslim has objection, they can take

objection.

And if at least 5 million, the Indian

population, according to the PEW report of 2022

census, there are 211 million Muslims in India.

And that's approximately the status of the government

also.

14.6% of the Indian population, they

are Muslims.

And even if 5 million Muslims, even 2

.5% of the Muslims, if they send

the objection and they reject this Vox board

amendment bill, it will be stopped.

So now it is our duty that this

anti-Islamic, anti-Muslim coalition government, which is

trying to usurp, eat the property of the

Muslims.

You know, there are hundreds and thousands of

mosques in the Vox board.

Hundreds and thousands of madrasas, of graveyards.

The total bank is 9.4 lakh acres,

41 billion square feet, 3,800 square kilometer.

It may be worth billions and hundreds of

billions of dollars.

It is a big asset.

And they're trying to eat this property, trying

to put non-Muslims on the board.

If, imagine, just one mosque, Babri mosque, a

couple of decades earlier, when it was taken

away, there was a big human cry, there

was a big commotion, there was riots.

If this bill is passed, there'll be thousands

of mosques that can easily be taken away

from Muslim ummah.

Thousands of graveyards can be taken away.

Thousands of madrasas, thousands of property worth lakhs

of acres of land can be taken away.

It is your duty, it's my duty to

see to it that we object to it.

And we have to, what we have to

do only is that scan.

You can see it below on the link

or maybe you will see if you go

on my Facebook or go on my social

media, there will be a post which has

a QR code.

You can scan.

You have to scan it with your mobile

phone on the camera.

It will take you to the link and

only raise the objection that you reject this

Waqf Board Amendment Bill.

Even if 5 million, hardly 2.5%

of the Muslim of India object, this bill

will be stopped.

But we don't want that.

We want at least 10% of the

Muslim ummah to object it, to reject this

Amendment Bill.

And I hope that my dear Muslim brothers

and sisters of India, they will see to

it that they don't sleep this time.

We should be active.

Otherwise, our next generation would blame us that

this Waqf was given by our forefathers, most

of it, hundreds of years back, tens of

years back.

Majority is coming since down the ages.

And it is for the benefit of the

ummah.

And just let me tell you one fact

that the richest, the richest residence in the

full world belongs to an Indian that is

Mukesh Ambani.

And you know that Mukesh Ambani has his

own private residence in Altamont Road, which is

Antilla.

It is 27 storey tall and it's said

to be $2 billion.

Some say $1 billion, some say $1.5

billion.

Some estimates say it's $2 billion.

It is the richest private residence in the

world.

And do you know this residence of Mukesh

Ambani, which is supposed to be the richest

Indian, it is built on a Waqf property.

So much so that after it was completed,

there was a court case and finally he

won it.

It was built on a Waqf property.

Yet there are some of our Muslims who

are corrupted, who for small gain, they take

bribes, etc.

And they don't handle the property well.

This should be stopped.

We have no objection in somebody having to

take care of the Waqf board.

But interfering, putting a non-Muslim on the

board, trying to usurp the property.

Do you know there are thousands of acres

of Muslim Waqf property which is taken by

the government at a mere rental rate of

a small amount.

All this is happening in our country, which

we Muslims should stand up for.

It is our right.

It is our property.

It's a private property for the benefit of

the Muslim Ummah of India.

And I hope inshallah today and see to

it that the Imams of the Masjid in

the next coming Jumma Qutba, they see to

it that they raise the protest and they

tell the Jama'at that see to it

that we scan the code and we reject

the Muslim Waqf Amendment Bill.

And I hope that inshallah that most of

the Muslims, almost all listening to this message

of mine, will take action immediately and launch

the protest and reject the Muslim Waqf Amendment

Bill 2024, which has been tabled by the

NDA government, the BJP government, by Narendra Modi.

My dear Muslim brothers and sisters of India,

see to it that you scan the QR

code and you object and say that you

reject the Waqf Board Amendment Bill before the

13th of September 2024.

The court has given a date for the

Parliament, for the Judiciary Panel that the protest

should be launched or the protest should be

made by the Muslims rejected.

By the last date is 13th of September

2024.