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Dr. Zakir responds to vegetarians about "all life is sacred"

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Let us analyze the 'Humane reason', the 'Ethical reasons' - And the pure Vegetarians, they say that... 'All life is sacred - and no living creature should be killed'. They fail to realize that today, it is a universal fact, that even plants have got life - So the main argument on killing living creature, does not hold good today. Previously may be... a couple of centuries ago, it may have held some weight, but today it carries no weight. Then they further argue today, and they say... 'Yes we know that plants have got life, but they cannot feel pain... therefore killing a plant, is a lesser crime and lesser sin, as compared to killing an animal'. Today, science has further advanced, and we have come to know that even the plants can feel pain, they can even cry - But the cry of the plant cannot be heard by the human ear, because the audible frequency range of the human ear, is from 20 cycles per second, to 20,000 cycles per second - Anything below and above this, the human ear cannot hear.
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But the cry of the animal can be heard by the human being - but the cry of the plant cannot be heard by the human being - Just because you cannot hear the cry of the plant, that does not justify you to inflict pain or kill the plant. There was an ideological Vegetarian, who had a discussion with me, and he told me that... 'Brother Zakir, I know the plants have life, they feel pain... but you know plants... they have got about two senses less, as compared to the animals'. I said... 'For the sake of argument I agree with you'. But then I asked him a simple question, that... 'Suppose your brother is born deaf and dumb - cannot hear, cannot speak - two senses less - and when he grows up, and when someone comes and murders him - will you go and tell the Judge...' O my Lord give the murderer a less punishment, because my brother had two senses less'. In fact he will say... 'Usne to Masoom ko mara hai'... 'He has killed an innocent person - give him a bigger punishment'. And further if you analyze that in Islam, as far as living creatures are concerned - they are two types... broadly classified in two types - 'Human beings who are living creatures'- and Non-human being living creatures. As far as killing the human beings are concerned, Qur'an says in Surah Maidah, Ch. No. 5, Verse No. 32 that... 'If any person - if any one kills any human being, unless if be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land, it is as though he has killed the whole of humanity and if any saves an human being, it is as though he has saved the whole nation'. If any person kills any human being... Muslim or Non-Muslim, unless if it be for murder or for creating mischief, Qur'an says... 'He has killed whole of humanity - if you save any human being, you have saved the whole of humanity'. As far as non-human being living creatures are concerned, no human being should harm them unnecessarily... should not kill them unnecessarily... for sports, or for fun, or for target practice - but if it is for you security and for your safety, you can stop them, you can even kill them - or if you want for lawful food, but not just for fun and frolic, or for hunting. Even if I agree that the plants are a lesser species, as compared to the human beings - if you take the life of one animal... an average animal, it can feed about hundred human beings. For this same hundred human beings, you may have to kill more than hundred plants. So is it preferable to take the life of one living animal, or the life of 100 living plants?... Which is a bigger sin? ...Is it a bigger sin to kill human beings who are handicapped, or kill one healthy human being... which is a bigger sin? - You decide for yourself. There is a Vegetarian Society by the name of 'World Foundation on Reverence for all Life'... Most of the quotations which he gave, is from here and from these three books... most of them ... all most all. The name of the foundation is 'World Foundation as Reverence for all Life'- they forgot to mention... (except plant life) in bracket. And it says... 'All creation is one family... All life is sacred'. What kind of an ideology is this, that you permit the killing of one family member, but do not permit the killing of the another family member? - It is illogical and unscientific. You know in America, there are Vegetarian societies who take students to slaughter houses, and they make them see the blood shed and convert them to Vegetarianism. It is like a doctor taking the young girls to observe and watch a difficult childbirth, and then say that... 'Is the reason you should not marry, and you should not have children'. These are unethical forms of mind control - unethical...unethical. In fact we should teach our children that... 'When vegetables can be grown for food, why cannot animals be raised for food?' All life is sacred... I agree... Unnecessarily killing them is wrong - But for your requirement, lawful food is permitted.

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  • So according to him, it's alright to eat something with a face complete with eyes and a mouth that screams, with red blood like ours, that has feet to run, in short- something that nature has equipped to escape danger- like us. Those are major differences between an animal and a fruit or a vegetable. The next time he feels like having steak why not just jump on a halal slaughtered steer and start knawing away with those flat herbivorian teeth and see what happens. Why cook - it's natural right?

  • This is the highest level of ignorance ever in order to justify the evil deeds of man that comes from his deep ego,greed and lust and can't let go or giveup his filthy physical"needs"for some other higher spiritual purpose and deeper understanding of the universe.fuits are the gift of nature,when you pick a beautiful fruit from a tree-there's no pain cause the tree is the source.the tree keeps making new fruits cause it's a gift.when you cut an animal's leg to eat meat will he grow another one?

  • wow this video is very negative and just plain wrong!

  • WELL THEN FOR HIS ARGUMENT FRUITARIANS ARE THEY WAY TO LIVE!!!! SO IF HE IS TRYING TO JUSTIFY HIS ARGUMENT THAT KILLING ANIMALS IS ACCEPTABLE THEN HE IS STILL WRONG!!!!!!

  • for your info nobody cuts down trees to eat them. your argument is very severely flawed. lions and tigers are designed to hunt and kill for survival and not for taste. give a baby an apple and piece of meat. and see for your self.

  • yeh chutia hai

  • who is this ignorant person?

  • noob

  • This guy has a screw loose!

  • stupid speech ,he thnk hes the GOD. all the stupid and brainless people agree wt his speech bcz he the head of stupid . I never talk bad about ISLAM or ALLAH. Im telling ths stupid fool dnt knw who give birth of ths syaitan Zakir Naik really make violence among people n wnt people fight each other. Very soon he will get punishment frm his own GOD. He realy Syaitan

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