Zakir Naik – The Tie is Not a Symbol of Christianity
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Here's the question
that tie is a symbol of a cross,
symbol of Christian, then why have I, being
a Muslim, wear the tie?
And I do know that many Muslims consider
the tie to be a symbol of a
cross.
But I'm a friend of comparative religion.
Nowhere
in any Christian scripture is it mentioned that
tie is a sign
of a cross.
And if it is, the hadith clearly says
that you cannot wear a hat which resembles
that of an unbeliever. If it's a specific
symbol of a non Muslim, you cannot wear
that label. It is haram.
Nowhere will you find a single statement
in any verse of the Bible where it
says that tie is a sign of a
cross.
I'm aware that many Muslims,
they are against the western culture, and I
don't blame them. What I say,
if you find something against,
if you observe something with the westerners are
doing wrong, you have to object to it.
But what things they do good,
there's no harm in agreeing with it. What
things are neutral,
there's no harm. Not that you have to
object to that also. Many Muslims are so
much against the Western culture that they object
on each and everything.
Is not at all the symbol of Christianity,
and this question is posed to me in
various parts of the world, and I challenge
and I tell the audience that if any
Muslim
can prove to me
anytime with authentic proof that tie is a
sign
of a cross of a Christian, I will
be the first person to remove it, and
I will tell all the people not to
wear it.
Tie is not a sign of Christianity at
all. It's not a sign of a cross
at all.
It's a cultural risk,
And research that have been done by scholars,
not from hearsay, from scholars, how did it
originate? Some scholars say in the cold countries,
people wore a tie to
tie their garments which were heavy. You know,
in the cold country, you know, woolen clothes,
etcetera.
It's a cultural dress.
It's not a dress of the Christian. You
go throughout the world, the Christian wear, he
wear the tie, know about it. The Muslim
wears it. The Hindu wears it. It is
not specifically a sign of Christianity.
It's a cultural dress. And a Muslim is
allowed to adopt any culture
as long as it doesn't go against the
Islamic Sharia.
If that culture goes against the Islamic Sharia,
like wearing shorts, it's the culture of the
westerners.
We Muslim can't adopt it because for a
man,
the hijab, the aura is from the navel
to the knee. He can't wear shorts. It's
not allowed.
Traveling in a car,
the car was maintained by the Christian. The
best of those. Can I say the Christian
invented it, therefore I can't sit in a
car?
I'm not driving an airplane. Can I say
that? No. Whatever is against the Sharia, you
should not do.
Thay is not a sign of Christianity at
all.
This tie, people say, it looks like a
cross.
You open
and you stretch the circle, it becomes a
cross.
I tell the kurta that you wear. You
put like that,
it resembles more like a cross.
So you can't
invent your own thinking. Oh, kurta looks like
a cross, therefore stop wearing kurta. Can I
tell that? Can I ever tell that?
See, the prophet said anything which is a
symbol of a particular religion, don't wear those
symbol. Thigh is not a symbol of Christianity,
it's a cultural dress. It's not a fault
you should wear a tie. I'm not saying
that.
If you don't wear, I'm
with you.
But when I go to the western country,
it helps
leading certain barriers. And if Islam doesn't object
to that,
I don't mind using it. If Islam objects
to that,
I should not use anything
which Islam prohibits, even if it benefits me.
But since this thing
is allowed in Islam,
there's no problem at all if a person
wears a tie. Hope the answer's question system.