 Save 10% with my code BOBBY10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. Alright guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today we're going to react again to Zakhar Naik. This time with his video, why do Muslims have non-vegetarian food? Can a person be a vegetarian and yet be a Muslim? If you don't know, this channel used to be an exclusive anti-vegan channel because I myself made the mistake to be a vegan, not only a vegetarian, but a vegan and exclude all the animal foods for four straight years. The result of that was, of course, suffering. God didn't intend us to eat only vegetarian or let alone vegan food. This is why my health suffered, digestive-wise, depression and teeth as well. Veganism is called the doctrine of the devils within Christianity. Once I quit veganism, I found God and I returned back to Christian orthodoxy. Now I'm very curious to find out what the viewpoint of vegetarianism veganism is within Islam. Of course, I know about 8 and 8 is the slaughter fast, so I can already assume what the Islamic position on eating meat is. All right, but with no further ado, let's have a look. Hello, Dr. Zakhar Naik. My name is Mein Kumar and I am by qualification MBA and work for Thomas Cook at Ford. My question is regarding non-vegetarian foods. It is allowed in- He looks like a vegetarian. Islam. Animals are living beings. So don't you think that it... That is always the claim of vegetarians. Animals are living beings. So what if they're living beings? We're all living beings and we're all dying beings. If you look into nature, everything eats each other. So living beings eat other living beings. Why then would you as a human have to exclude yourself completely out of that food chain which has been created by God, obviously, and you know that as well. Otherwise, you wouldn't be asking Dr. Zakhar Naik. Here you would be asking a nutritionist. Why do you want to exclude yourself of the food chain? It's violence. And my second question is that is it compulsory in Islam to have non-veg food and can a pure vegetarian person can follow Islam? But the Mahesh Kumar has asked a very good question. He said that... I don't know if it's a good question, but he asked a question. Yes. In Islam, you'll have non-veg food. You'll kill animals. Why does Islam give permission to kill living creatures? And can a Muslim be a pure vegetarian? Brother, before I answer the question, I'd like to tell you a Muslim can be a very good Muslim even by being a pure vegetarian. It is not compulsory in Islam that you should have non-veg food. It's not compulsory. Of course, he knows more about Islam than me. He is the scholar here and I believe him when he says that it's not compulsory. However, we're talking about the submission to the will of God. And I would claim that if you do not follow the natural laws and you are essentially part of nature, you as a human being are made a certain way by your Creator and your Creator didn't create you as a vegetarian. He created you as an omnivore slash carnivore. You rely on meat. Meat comes with multiple nutrients that you cannot find within plants, which means if you decide to stay a vegetarian, you're directly going against God's will, against God's design and therefore obviously not submitting yourself to the will of God. Since Allah says in the Quran and gives permission for a person to have non-veg food, in Surah Maida chapter number five verse number one, it says that eat of the four-footed animals which have been made lawful for you. Yes. It's mentioned in Surah Nahel chapter 16 verse number five that you can eat the meat of the cattle. It's mentioned in Surah Maumun chapter 23 verse number 21 that in the cattle we give you a drink which is good for the humankind and of the meat you can eat. So when Almighty God gives you permission to eat the meat of the lawful animals, then why should we not have? Now come into the logical reason why Islam permits you to have non-veg food. The logical reason yet again is because it is our species-specific diet. God created cows. Cows have different guts. They have high in guts and therefore they're perfectly suited to eat grass. You go out and try eating grass. You will puke. You're not designed to eat grass. You're designed to eat meat. This is why steak tastes delicious to you. It's rich in protein. The human body, it requires 23 amino acids out of which eight are not made in the human body. It should be given by external diet which are known as essential amino acids. Now these all eight essential amino acids are present in no kind of vegetable food together. No. It's only present in flesh food. That's correct. So the non-veg flesh. This is why the vegetarians slash vegans believe that you have to combine foods so you can get all the amino acids. But still it's not only the amino acids. You will like vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin K2. You will like cholesterol, creatin, carnicin and so much more. So the amino acids, this is a great point. However, there are so many micronutrients that you simply cannot find in plants. Let alone all the anti-nutrients that are found in plants which then in turn destroy your gut. Food is more nutritious as compared to vegetables. Way more. Furthermore, if you analyze, if you see the set of teeth of the herbivorous animals, the cow, the goat, the sheep, they have got flat set of teeth. Yes. They only have vegetables. They don't have flesh food. If we analyze the set of teeth of the carnivorous animals, the tiger, the leopard, the lion, they have got pointed set of teeth. They have canine set of teeth. They only have flesh. They don't touch vegetables. On top of that, the herbivorous animals have their eyes on the side. The predatory animals, on the other hand, have them up front. If you analyze the set of teeth of the human beings, if you go in the mirror and see we human beings, we have got flat teeth as well as pointed teeth. If Almighty God wanted us to have only vegetables, why did he give us this canine teeth? Why did he give us this pointed teeth? For what? Because it is your species specific diet. It is that simple. What does it mean? Again, if you look at the cow, the cow eats grass, but the cow isn't simply eating grass. For the sake of eating grass, no, the cow enjoys the grass. To the cow, grass tastes delicious. Meat, on the other hand, tastes delicious to you, because you are a carnivorous being. That's simple. God created you that way. But natural to have non-veg food, to have the flesh food. Furthermore, if we analyze the digestive system of the human being, if you compare it to the herbivorous animals, cow, goat, sheep, they can only digest vegetables. The digestive system of the carnivorous animals, tiger, leopard, lion, they can only digest flesh food. They cannot digest vegetables. The digestive system of the human beings can digest both. To an extent, of course, we cannot digest the same herbivorous matter as cows or as goats, etc., etc., you name it, because they ferment those plants within their guts. And then the bacteria starts producing the nutrients that they need. We, on the other hand, cannot do that at all. And big intestine. It can digest vegetables as well as flesh food. It can digest both. So, if Almighty God wanted us to have only vegetables, why did He give us the digestive system? It can digest both. Exactly. As far as you analyze, many of the Hindus think that Hinduism prohibits the eating of flesh food. In fact, if you read, it's mentioned Manu Smithi, chapter number five, verse number 30, Almighty God has created some animals to eat and some to be eaten. If you eat the animals that have been created to be eaten, then it's not a sin. No. Manu Smithi chapter number five, verse number 31. On top of that, if you look into the Indian religions, you will see that it is a class system and coincidentally, the higher class, of course, eats flesh. Why is that so? Almighty God created some animals for sacrifice. Killing them is not a sin. No. Manu Smithi chapter five, verse number 40 says that killing sacrificial animals for sacrifice is permitted. It is the law of the God. So, in Hindu scriptures, it's permitted to have non-veg food. Depends who you are. If you read the Vedas and the other scriptures, sages and sons, they eat non-veg food, they even eat beef. Yes. If you read Mahabharata, Anushasan Parva, chapter number 88, when the Pandavas together, Yudhishthir, who is the eldest brother of the Pandavas, he asks Bhishma that what food should we give in yagna, in puja, in sacrifice so that our ancestors will be satisfied? So, Bhishma replies that if you give herbs and shrubs and vegetables, our ancestors will be satisfied. It's actually very, very simple. And this Indian caste system is essentially exactly what is happening throughout the world and what has been happening throughout the world. It is a caste system and the peasants always ate the grains. The kings, on the other hand, ate the nutritionally dense animal foods. It is always the same thing. With their religion, on the other hand, the peasantry class gets tricked spiritually into eating those weak foods. If you give them fish for two months, if you give them meat for three months, if you give them hair for four months, if you give them goat for five months, if you give them bacon for six months, if you give them birds for seven months, if you give them deer for eight months, and the menu continues, big menus there. It says if you give buffalo for eleven months, if you give the flesh of cow, our ancestors will be satisfied for one full year. And if you give red meat of goat or meat of rhinoceros, they'll be satisfied inexhaustibly. So according to Hindu... See, this is exactly what I have a problem with, because we can clearly see that those foods are meant for human beings, but they are exclusive to certain people. And if you give it to your ancestors in this case, you give them only certain bits and pieces. Or you ate a cow, now you're good for a year, come back next year. And this is exactly what we see in this day and age. Or eat plant-based or eat the bugs even better. And then here and there on a holiday, maybe you're going to get lucky and get a little piece of meat. Or thank you very much. Scriptures, eating non-veg is not a sin. It is because many of the Hindus were being influenced by the Ahimsa philosophy of not killing any living creatures, they started accepting it. Yes, exactly. But even the philosophy of Ahimsa, as you said, that killing living creatures is a sin. Brother, do you know that even plants have got life? Sure. Do you know that, brother? So if you say killing living creatures is a sin, killing a plant is also a sin. So why do you have plants? The vegans will say, but plants don't have a nervous system. Agreed. Agreed. Very good. Furthermore, there are some people who say, okay, okay, brother Zakir, I agree that plants have got life, but the plants can't feel pain. Therefore killing a plant... Zakir Naik knows, man. I'm really impressed. The point to be noted is that today science has advanced and we have come to know even the plants can feel pain. Sure. But the cry of the plant cannot be heard by the human being because human... It's a different type of pain and therefore it is of course very arbitrary. The vegans will simply claim that you need a nervous system and a brain to experience a certain type of pain. And the plants do not have that and therefore they do not experience pain like cows. Being here, the frequency that they hear is from 20 cycles per second to 20,000 cycles per second. Anything below and above this range you cannot hear. So there's a farmer in America who converted the calf, the plant into the human frequency and you could come to know when the plants were crying, when they wanted water. There's another person who came and argued with me and told me, brother Zakir, I agree with you that plants have got life, plants can feel pain, but the plants have got about two senses less as compared to the animals. Therefore killing a plant is a lesser sin as compared to killing an animal. That's all I see. I am asking you the question, brother. Suppose your brother, your elder brother, he is born deaf and dumb. After he grows up and someone comes and kills him. So will you go and tell the judge, me Lord, give the murderer less punishment because my brother had two senses less. He could not hear, he could not speak. Of course. Will you say that? In fact, you will say, give the murderer double punishment. He could not hear, he could not speak. My brother was masoom, he was innocent. So in Islam it does not work like that. Two senses or three senses. The Quran says in Surah Baqarah chapter number two, verse number one. On top of that yet again, we simply do not know how they experience pain. So to simply limit it to our five senses and therefore justify one and not the other is irrational. 68, eat of the good thing they've provided to you. As long as the food is halal, it's tajab for you, you can have it. And furthermore, I personally have got no problem. If the non-Muslims don't have non-veg, I've got no problem. Only if they tell me eating non-veg is a sin, it's a crime, that's the time I give the reply. Otherwise if the non-Muslims in India, they don't have non-veg, it's beneficial for me. If all the non-Muslims in India start having non-veg, then the prices of mutton and beef will rise. It'll be more expensive for me to have it. Exactly. So personally, I've got no problem. Hope that satisfies your question, brother. Very well, very well, bro. So now, if you want, you can need to be a good vegetarian. If you want, you can eat non-veg also. Eating non-veg will keep you more healthy. That's right. You can have, but even if you want to be a pure vegetarian, it's not a sin. Hope that answers the question, brother. Nice. All right, that's it for today's video. Yet again, I'm very impressed with Dr. Zakhar Naik. I really like this guy. And on top of that, I have to repeat, based, very, very based indeed. This man knows about vegetarianism, veganism, and the pitfalls thereof. He hasn't been brainwashed into believing that vegetarian or vegan diets are healthier than eating meat. Of course, it is not. We've been eating meat forever, as he described, God created us that way. If you're an atheist, evolution created us that way. You can simply compare the digestive tract of herbivores and carnivores, and you will see what's up. All right, guys, but this is it for today. If you liked the video, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support me through Patreon, all the links are in the description box below. 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