Zakir Naik – Why do Muslims Kill Animals
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The speaker discusses the misconception that Muslims should kill animals for taste, but humans can eat their own meat and vegetables. They also discuss the belief that humans cannot eat their own animals and that animals are supposed to be eaten to death. The speaker emphasizes that killing animals is a lesser sin than killing plants, and that animals can have a nervous system and reduce pain, making them carriers of bad behavior. He warns that killing animals is a lesson and that killing them is a lesser sin than killing an animal.
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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.