Zakir Naik – Reject Waqf Amendment Bill
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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.