Zakir Naik – Why do Muslims Kill Animals

Brother Prasanna has asked a very good question,

very relevant question to the topic.

When I said that you should not kill

any animals, they are creation of lust. Unless

you want for food, you cannot target practice.

So why do the Muslims

kill animals? You can lead a healthy life

according to him,

being an MBBS student. So why only kill

the animals for taste? Brother, point number 1.

A Muslim

can be a very good Muslim even by

being a pure vegetarian.

There's no verse in the Quran or hadith

which says you should compulsory

have non veg or have flesh. You can

be a very good Muslim by being a

pure vegetarian. But

Allah says in the Quran in Surah Maidah

chapter number 5 verse number 1. You can

have

all the animals which are lawful for you.

All 4 footed animal which are lawful for

you with the exception named. Allah says in

Surah and * chapter number 16 verse number

5 that almighty God has created animal for

you so that you can eat the meat.

Allah says in chapter number 23 verse number

21 that

verily in the cattle is a sign for

you. From among the body, you get a

milk for you to drink and from it

you derive warmth and of the meat you

can eat. So when our creator almighty God

gives us permission to have these meat, why

should we not have it? Now coming to

your argument

that

in this

meat,

you being an MBBS student,

and I'm a medical doctor. I passed my

MBBS

student, you might have read I don't know

which you are on first also, you might

have read that that there are certain amino

acids which are not synthesized in the body,

which are known as essential amino acids. There

are 8 amino acids.

Now these essential amino acids have to be

given in external diet.

If you don't take an external diet, it

can cause loss to your body. No vegetable

on the face of the earth gives you

all the 8 essential amino acids. No vegetable.

The only food which gives you all the

8 essential amino acids is the meat,

fish, the flesh foods.

Flesh food is rich

in

protein,

rich in vitamins,

rich in iron, it is healthy. But yet

I do know if you want, you can

remain healthy even by abstaining from non veg

food, you can.

By having a proper diet and checking up

and etcetera, you can. I'm not saying you

cannot remain healthy. But when the food is

healthy, why abstaining from it? The reason people

give

is that you're hurting animals, which we'll come

to it later. Now if you analyze a

set of teeth

of the herbivorous animals, the cow, the goat,

the sheep, they have flat set of teeth.

They only have vegetables.

They will never touch flesh, never.

If you analyze the set of teeth of

the carnivorous animals, tiger,

leopard, lion, they have canine set of teeth.

They have pointed teeth. They only have flesh.

They never touch grass.

If you analyze the human being's teeth, if

you go and look in the mirror, if

I go and look in the mirror, we

find that almighty God has given us flat

teeth as well as pointed teeth. If almighty

God

if almighty God wanted us to have only

vegetables, why did he give us the canine

teeth?

Now you are a medical student. The is

for flesh food.

So this proves that almighty God gave us

5 non fish food. Furthermore, the digestive system

of the herbivorous animals, cow, goat, sheep, they

cannot digest flesh. They can only digest vegetables.

The digestive system of the carnivorous animals, tiger,

leopard, lion, can only digest flesh. They cannot

digest vegetables.

But the digestive system of the human being,

you being a medical student, know We can

digest non veg or sun veg also, vegetables

also, flesh food also, even flesh food. If

almighty God wanted us to have only vegetables,

why did he give us a dietit system

that can digest both? But naturally, we have

it. Now coming to your question

that there is a misconception

amongst

the Hindus that the Hindu scripture does not

permit them to have non veg. I quoted

the Quran. If you read the Hindu scripture,

brother, if you read Manu Smriti, chapter number

5,

Manu Smriti, chapter number 5, verse number 3031.

It says that if you eat the flesh

of the animals which are meant to be

eaten, you're not doing a sin. Because almighty

God has created some animal to eat and

some to be eaten.

Monroe Smriti chapter number 5 verse 31, that

if you sacrifice the animal, the sacrifice of

animal, you're not doing a sin.

Monroe Smriti chapter number 5 verse number 39

to 40 says that almighty God has created

certain animals to be sacrificed. So if you

kill the animal to be sacrificed, you're not

killing.

Chapter

number 5 verse number 4142 says that a

Brahmin

who has knowledge,

who knowingly sacrifice an animal,

even the animal goes to heaven and even

the Brahmin goes to heaven.

Furthermore in Rigved,

book number 10, hymn number 27.

Verse number 2, a person says that I'm

gonna go for war. When I come back,

prepare for me a great bull.

Furthermore, Rigved, book number 10, hymn number 28,

verse number 4. It say that Indra, he

say that prepare for me bulls tweet.

Buffalo bulls tweet. And if you read the

Mahabharata,

Anushasan,

chapter number 88,

if you read that, this this is also

mentioned, Manu Smithi, chapter number 3, verse number

2667.

Yudhishthir,

he asked Bhishma, what should we give in

the yagna, in the puja, in sacrifice,

so that our ancestors will be satisfied?

So Bhishma replies that if you give herbs

and shrubs, vegetables,

our ancestors will be satisfied for 1 month.

If you give fish, they will be satisfied

for 2 months. If you give meat, they

will be satisfied for 3 months. If you

give hair, rabbit, they'll be satisfied for 4

months. If you give goat meat, they'll be

satisfied for 5 months. If you give bacon,

for 6 months. If you give deer, for

7 months. If you give birds, for 8

months. And the menu continues.

This is a scripture of Hindus. It further

says that if you give a buffalo for

11 months, and if you give cow for

12 months, and dinosaurs,

inexhaustibly.

So even according to Hindu scriptures

even according to Hindu scriptures, it gives you

permission to have

non veg including beef. I'm not saying this.

All the references are there. You can check

it up. It's absolutely correct. Now coming to

the logical point of it, that why

do the human beings have to harm

the animals

when we can live without

eating non veg?

The reason people give that killing an animal

is a great sin

and killing a plant is a lesson because

plant don't have life. This was the logic.

Previously, Hindu sages and tantra, they had done

veg, they had beef also, but they were

influenced by the gents of the philosophy

who believed that plants have got no life,

therefore eating a plant and the lesser sin

has complained to eating an animal. But today,

you know and even I know that plants

have got life.

So now the logic has changed. They say,

okay, brothers, we agree plant have got life

but plant can't feel pain.

Therefore, killing a plant is a lesser sin

than killing an animal.

Today, science has further advanced and you have

come through that even the plants can feel

pain.

The plants have a nervous system.

They can feel pain. They can even cry.

They can even feel happy.

They even feel sad. But the cry of

the plant cannot be heard by the human

beings because the human beings can only hear

between a frequency of 20 cycles per second

to 20,000 cycles per second. Anything below and

above they can't hear, you may be aware

of a silent dog whistle. The dog can

hear up to 40,000 cycles per second. So

the whistle has a frequency above the human

frequency, more than 20000 cycles per second, but

below 40,000 cycles per second.

The master blows the whistle, human being can't

hear, the dog hears and comes. So even

the

plants cry but we can't hear. Just because

we can't hear, that doesn't mean that we

can torture them if you say it's torturing.

No one person argued with me and told

me, I agree with you. Plants have got

life. Plants can feel pain but the plants

have got only 2 or 3 senses. Animals

have got 5 senses. Therefore, killing a plant

is a lesser sin as compared to killing

animal. I told him, okay, brother, for sake

of argument, I agree with you. Plants have

got 2 or 3 senses, animal have got

5 senses. But suppose

you have a brother,

he's born

deaf and dumb, 2 senses less. Can't speak,

can't hear. When he grows up, somebody comes

and kills him. So will you go and

tell the judge, owe me Lord, give the

murderer less punishment because my brother are 2

senses less.

You.

You will tell him, give him a bigger

punishment. You are the masoom, you are sinless.

How did he kill my brother? So Islamic

logic doesn't work like that 2¢ less or

2¢ less. Allah says in the Quran in

Suri Baqarah chapter 2 verse number 168. Eat

of the good things we have provided you.

What is good you can have?

What is not good you cannot have? If

you analyze

that if you don't kill these cattle, life

cycle of the cattle is very short. They

reproduce very fast.

If you don't kill the cattle for food,

you'll have a problem of all population of

the cattle.

The cow and the goat, they reproduce very

fast.

And if an Indian

does not want to have non veg, I've

got no problem. If you don't want to

have non veg, brother, no problem at all.

Personally, I'm happy because if all the Indian

and the Hindu start having non veg, then

the price of meat will go high.