Yazid bin Muwiyah, the criminal of Karbala is the hero of Zakir Naik
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N. Truth Seeker:
As well known to the Muslim world, Dr. Zakir Naik, during a lecture in India, referred to Yazid bin Muwiyah who gave orders to behead the grandson of the Prophet (SAAW) in the Battle of Karbala, respectfully with the words "may Allah be pleased with him" affixed with Yazid's name. It shocked the entire Muslim world, not just the Shiias, but also the Sunnis.
Your comments would be appreciated.
Zainab_M:
Thanks brother pt, for bringing up this topic. Yes, it shocked me too and from that day I lost a great deal of my respect for Dr. Zakir Naik.
I'm a MUSLIM, neither a "sunni" nor a "shiia," Alhumdulilah. Thus, from a neutral standpoint, I'm baffled by Dr. ZN's strange fantasy on discreetly glorifying Yazid bin Muawiyah. Probably he has a fad, imagining that love of the victors of Karbala will make him look a better "sunni" attracting larger crowds to his future lectures.
Regardless of the continued shiia/sunni squabblings, studying the circumstances that led to the Battle of Karbala, the Battle itself and the events that followed, few would deny that the Ommayad style of power struggle was not what our beloved Prophet (SAAW) and the 4 righteous Caliphs upheld. Having been a student of Islamic History myself, it isn't hard to discern that the culture of dynasties, hereditary rules, monarchies and royal extravagance was started by the Ommayads, destroying the awesome foudation of humility along with the concept of a pan-Islamic state laid by the Prophet (SAAW) and his immediate successors, and instead, introducing the era of kings, princes, emirs, sheikhs and sultans with its autocracy, corruption and ambitions. Its repercussions are being felt uptil the present. It's reprehensible, to say the least! Apart from causing the martyrdom of the Prophet's beloved grandson who was a sincere, humble and gentle soul, the avoidable incident of Karbala was the core cause and the beginning of the breakdown of morals among Muslim rulers, having far-reaching effects on the entire Muslim community forever.
I'm ashamed on this, Dr. ZN's misguided expression, and I also disagree with his view of trying to condone the Battle of Karbala in his own way by calling it a "political war." Of course everyone knows it was a political war. Eventually the start of all wars have a political reason even if they get ignited on grounds of non-political occurences. But it's the immediate motive of every war and the way it's perpetrated by the stronger side that needs to be debated. Yazid's orders as the commander-in-chief on the throne perpetrated mass murder when that was needless, only for the sake of eliminating a popular personality whom he looked upon as a political threat. That was no reason to fight a war, political or not, much less to carry out the sort of murders which he did.
BTW ,, here's the video where Zakir Naik says "May Allah be pleased with him" for Yazid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xg18YtiML0
Ruhi_Rose:
O really! ? I didn't know Zakir Naik said such a thing. how disgraceful of him. You're right sister Zeynab. It's obviously got something to do with a misguided sense of fantasy about being a hardcore Salafi. Zakir Naik is knowledgeable about certain matters, but on various other issues is slips badly.
Heba E. Husseyn:
Yeah, Zakir Naik said that. It upset many Sunnis as well. The strongest opinion among the Sunnis is to remain silent on Yazid, to neither praise him nor deride him. The Sunni reason for this is not to revile the dead because it's pointless. From that point of view, since Zakir Naik did praise Yazid, many Sunnis don't agree with him.
Zainab_M:
Yes, right.
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