Zakir Naik – The Purpose of Dr s Announcing of Charity and Showing Luxury

			The next question asked on the WhatsApp is, we want to know, what was your purpose of posting your
photos, flying in a private jet plane? And traveling in a bullet proof camera, with so many security
on the social media during your lecture tour to Nigeria in November 203?
		

			Is this not showing off an extravagance? We love you for your Dawa? Not for luxury and extravagance?
		

			This is a very important question in referring to my lecture tour, which for for two weeks, Nigeria
from 29th of October to the 10th of November, it was for about two weeks. And that lecture was very
successful. And I remember that a posted
		

			on the social media drive
		

			that I flew on a private jet plane from Sokoto to LOD in once, and second time from a low rain to
Abuja. And when I posted this, on my social media, on the Facebook, on Instagram, etc, there were
1000s of comments. And most of them saying mashallah melasma, that award, you are doing a great word
may Allah bless you, man, like if ammonia more than 99% of the comments for all positive? There was
a small few comments, maybe point 00 1% of the 1000s of comments that came in number very few who
did say that value posting that are flying in a private jet plane isn't an extravagance? Or what is
the purpose? And that is the reason I chose this question when it made was asked that Allah says in
		

			the Quran in surah Baqarah Chapter number two was number 271. That when you give charity and you
announce about the charity you have given, it is good.
		

			But when you let your charity reach to the poor people in secrecy, it is better. So Allah says when
you give charity, you can keep it silent. Like the Hadith says, When your right hand gives the left
hand should not No, it's good. But that doesn't mean announcing is not allowed.
		

			Depending on your purpose, if your purpose is to show off, then announcing is not good. But if your
purpose is to encourage others, when you give charity. And when you announce and you encourage
others, it's good. Because your main media is so that other people also join in charity, other
people get hung up. So if your reason for announcing your charity is to show up that okay, I've
given charity, it's not good, better if to keep quiet. But if you're announcing so more people join,
so it is better to announce than to keep silent. And that the reason you may be aware that just two
weeks earlier, I won the case against one of the politician, the former Deputy Chief Minister two of
		

			Penang, I want to hear against him many defame myriad article articles against me, and the court of
Malaysia awarded me 1.5 2 million ringgit as damages. That fee will do 320,000 US Dollars equal to
2.7 Crore Indian rupees. But I did and you all gave me the money on the seventh of November. And I
donated the complete amount for the punishment costs.
		

			The reason I announced is so that it encourages the others also, to take part that I've done another
before it wasn't to show off. Similarly, now when you analyze that I did post twice, on two
occasions that I traveled in a private jet plane. If you know, my talks, I always talk about
simplicity, they should not be forever games, they should not be unnecessary luxury. If you talk
about extra values, let me tell you, I did not pay a single penny for this private jet plane.
		

			The host was flying in the private jet plane, the already 13 seats. So me and my family joined them.
If we wouldn't have joined them, maybe we would have to pay for the flight ticket by going by a
conventional or a commercial plane. So to say that I spent extra is totally wrong. I did not spend
extra I save money. So it's not extravagant at all. But why did I post it?
		

			If you see that always say and tell the people that secret that life should be simple. Even though
we can afford a business class parent economic class and I do that. By Allah's grace, I can afford
to travel in first class. But what I tell the people you travel in economic class, a business class
normally is four to six times more expensive than economic class. If you turn economic class with
little bit discomfort, it's not very bad.
		

			You can give that amount in charity and that's what I do in my full life.
		

			If only on one occasion, when there was an emergency, I had to be to that city. And there was no
tickets available in an economy I traveled only once in my full life. In the last two years of my
travel, have I paid for a business class? That's a different thing that when I'm called as a guest
of the government, and they give me a ticket in business class, and first class, I've traveled a
lot. I've been in private jet plane many times and I'm been number of times, not that I asked for
it.
		

			The reason is, because today, the world has become a global village.
		

			And you find that there's a trend that you see in the social media, whether it be Facebook, whether
it be Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, that people try and look for role models. And we find that
unfortunately, most of the people that people follow their that those who are not on the straight
path, whether they be rock singers, with the the actors, whether they may be dancers, whether pop
singers or maybe sports men etc. So what we find that this trend is there. So the reason I did is
that Alhamdulillah by the Grace of Allah subhanaw taala and the posted Hamdulillah, masha Allah,
that is the grace of Allah subhanho When you find that normally the things happen with those
		

			celebrities, you know, which people look up to. So you heard my reason mean was posting it to see
that Allah subhanho wa Taala gives the Yama even to his servants. So the main reason was not to show
off. The main reason was to tell to the world that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala when you work in the path
of Allah subhanaw taala when you strive in the path of Allah subhanaw taala when you go to spirit
message, Allah not only gives you blessing in Accra, Allah gives you in this world, as Allah says in
the Quran, that if you stay for this dunya Allah says in surah Baqarah Chapter number two was number
200. They refuse to die for the dunya Allah will give you the dunya but it will not give you a
		

			camera. And Allah says that if you strive for Kira, Allah gives dunya so I'm just telling the world
that I'm a day I sacrificed my life Allah subhanaw taala and being Farah, but feed the goodness of
Allah subhanho wa Taala see the name of Allah subhana wa Taala that inshallah inshallah Allah will
give me gem to fit those inshallah we pray for that we don't know, but we pray for that. But Allah
even giving me this dunya how many people in the world have told in the jetplane? Maybe point 00 1%
Out of the 8 billion people that are there, the percentage that may have traveled in the jet plane
is surely point 00 1% So imagine Allah, you're not doing for this. I've never ever paid only once
		

			for business, I've never paid for first Tada, we can afford it. I love given a Dyneema. So the
reason is to show that Allah subhanho wa Taala even blesses those people who are starving the way,
what we have today is that we look up to role models, and the best role model for the Muslim in
Homosassa. Our Beloved Prophet Muhammad, Allah Salam is the best role model. And after that, the
other appears the second category of role model as a whole financially, they are the second after
them, Yes, Mama salasar, no one, then the other ambience, then we have the whole financially, they
are the second best, then we have the Sabbath, these role models of the past, then we have role
		

			models of the recent past, then we have the role model which are living. So when we look up the
reason that we see today is that it happened in the past. Okay, we know regarding the earlier
answer, that we know that Allah gave victory to the people who are weak in the past. What about
today's that happened maybe 1400 years ago, 1000 years ago, maybe 3000 years ago, talking about
David and Goliath talking our battle about that. But Allah has given example, even we know about the
Taliban for more than 20 years, the most richest country, the most powerful country in the world,
they tried to destroy them, they spend more than a trillion dollars, but yet the Taliban were one of
		

			the weakest in the world. They were victorious. Here you see that it is an example that people
strive in the way of Allah subhanho wa taala. We don't go for luxury. We don't but unlike.
		

			So the purpose of mine was just to show the new Yama that Allah has given to a person who's walking
in spot. And the reason I said that we traveled in a bulletproof car. With security, we could see
that there were umpteen number of security in Nigeria, not that somebody will attack me
Alhamdulillah people in Nigeria love me. But this is a protocol that not only do do they give this
protocols to the head of states, etc, but even to die. I remember
		

			When I went to Gambia, the amount of respect that the president of Gambia gave me, his main chief
protocol officer said that no one, the protocol that you got, even the heads of tails don't get. I
went to Indonesia. And I could see that when I landed, when I reached my hotel, after every 50
meter, there was a policeman. So from the time, my destination where I landed to my destination,
that is the hotel, there were hundreds or 1000s of policemen on the street. I was shocked. Never
ever have I been in such a protocol, that there are policemen every 2550 meters throughout for so
many kilometres. I was shocked. So this is the love. So this is an Yama for Allah subhanaw taala
		

			hasn't been translated, to show to the world, that you strive in the way of Allah subhanaw taala
Allah gives you honor.
		

			We have the celebrities, you know, these pop stars, the singers, the 1 million followers, 5 million
followers, 10 million followers, 20 million followers. So Allah subhanho wa Taala also can give a
die.
		

			millions of followers, whether it be on the Facebook, whether it be on the YouTube, so when we hear
hamdulillah has I mean first there are that on my Facebook there are 23 point 7 million followers.
There is no English speaker, religious speaker in the world, whether it be Hindu or a Christian or a
Muslim, that Allah has given more than 23 million followers and hamdulillah it's a blessing from
Allah subhanaw taala it did not to show off is to show that you strive in the way of Allah subhana
wa Tala, Allah opens a pantry. So when I posted me flying a private jet plane, which a small
percentage point 00 1% of the people in the world have done it, or having a bulletproof car with so
		

			much security. It's an honor, it's a protocol. So the reason was to show to the world that the honor
that Allah gives you in this world and so it is to give an indication to the Muslims that you're
striving the path of Allah subhanho wa Taala you strive for Allah will give Accra and just dunya
also. So that was the only purpose that is the reason more than 99% of the comments at Masha Allah
may Allah Quran Dubeau they understood the reason they may be point zero 1% of the people like the
question what was the what was the purpose? They don't understand hikma of Allah subhanaw taala
because I always tell and I tell that you know a person should have a low profile. And that tells
		

			that Allah subhanaw taala has blessed me. Allah has blessed me even in this dunya but in spite of
that, we are on a low profile. And I've told that many times in my lecture that I own a Toyota
Innova car. That is the Maximizer I cannot buy a more expensive car than this. Why? Because I feel
above this will not be good. It's not haram. Allah has blessed me when I'm earning millions of
ringgit and millions of rial every year. So easily I can afford a Mercedes or I can even afford a
Rolls Royce. The amount that Allah has blessed me, but I own a Toyota Innova. That's the maximum I
think above this will not be good. It's not right. But we know that we started business in Qatar
		

			during the World Cup. That is last year in 2022. And we started a luxury car company in Qatar for
the World Cup, and it happened to be the largest luxury rental car.
		

			And By Allah's grace, we own 134 luxury cars. From the top models from Rolls Royce, Lamborghini
Bentley, Bentley Flying Spur bendiga may back Mercedes 450. We had the Porsche Alhamdulillah that
the folk business imagine the cheapest car that I had
		

			in my piece rent a car. That was the the cheapest car was three times more expensive than the car I
own for my private use in our Toyota three times more expensive. So my so that when I went to meet
my daughter together, I took the worst car that is Mercedes E Class, e 200. The cheapest car in my
fleet, because hiring outside had to pay money, it was over a bit so to the cheapest car I saw to it
that I travel in the lowest car. If I'm using my car, I could have traveled in the best of cars. And
now I have purchased a much cheaper car so that if I travel it should be a cheaper car. But when the
day comes and emitted a point that now since the World Cup is over the business is not nearly very
		

			lucrative, but if maintained it so that there's no profit, no loss but at the same time any day that
comes to Qatar, whether it be an Arabic day or an English day, if he is a Islamic worker. These
cards are complimentary.
		

			And many times many they have come from different parts of the world. We give them the best of cards
not luxury car super luxury car. They sit in the made by the certain a Bentley imagine hiring
		

			In a Bentley or a May bag or Rolls Royce, for a day, it is 9000 rial that is two and a half $1,000.
Of course, for a normal person this rough, it's extravagant, but there is this this, we are catering
to the multimillionaires or the billionaire. So that's a niche market. But when a day comes, I give
him free. For me, it's costing only a cost of the petrol. Because the car is the driver. If they if
no one comes, get the car is that no cost. So for me, the cost is only for petrol, which may be 63
hours, maybe $15. So I give the best car to the day, depending upon the day. And they have noticed
that most of the day they need high end luxury cars, so I want to honor them. It did not feel like
		

			you too extravagant. It's because you're a die, I give you free. Of course, you cannot afford to
enter $1,000 a day, it's too expensive. Your aid ticket economic task will be cheaper than that from
whichever part of the world to come to Qatar, it will surely be less than two and a half $1,000 for
one day,
		

			and weather for one week we give the full so one of the reason that we have maintained this rental
car in Qatar is to give fifth homage to the day. Of course traveling or using the super luxury cars,
like Rolls Royce or Lamborghini Bentley, very few people have the thing but I personally don't sit
in discuss the we own it.
		

			It's the numbering in the name of my son. It's not in my name. But I'm just giving an example we
want to honor the dice. So similarly, when people who own the jet planes I remember when a person
had sent a Jeep in South Africa to collect method that instead of that cost of that became huge
donation, if they no no I give to celebrities, what better show up can I give them to give a dialect
you in the world. So your Allah is giving his Yama. So when we have these postings besides the
hundreds of other posting, this is just twice a couple of questions each time to show to the world
that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala is blessing a person who works in this path. If an example for the
		

			people that this is in Yama, Allah gives you in Accra, as well as the dunya. So this dish to show to
the world, that Allah subhanaw taala takes care of you. You see to it, that you don't be extravagant
yourself in your life, but Allah will yet give you luxury. So it's a blessing that my children we
have traveled in various countries in the world. They have been in the best of hotels, five to six
to seven times out there. They've been there at the same time that they've been to the law hotels,
we have trained them that they should be really ever die, to be prepared to lead a life a simple
life. That's the reason I've said many times that me personally for me and my wife, our monthly
		

			expenditures only $500 only $500. So that we keep our lifestyle but on for the cause of Allah
subhanaw taala when we travel we feed to it that we spent in the way of Allah Samantha and Allah is
giving us in Yama. So all this is has been firstly Arabic. This is because of the gift for last man
or Tara. So the main purpose of putting the post whether it be the private jet planes, or the
security or the bulletproof calf, is to show that Allah is blessing. His sowings hasn't been fun.
And we thank Allah subhanaw taala we are doing it for the akhira but Allah gives you Accra and
vinyasa. Hope this answer the question