Zakir Naik – The Tie is Not a Symbol of Christianity

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.