Re: DR ZAKIR NAIK AT DUBAI AIRPORT EXPO ON 27 & 28th AUGUST
I’ve not seen the video in question where he supposedly “blasphemes” the Prophet
and his Family (Radhi Allaaho Anhum) so I don’t know exactly what he said…
…But if he said “R…” after the name of Yazeed then that’s wrong in my opnion, unless he’s talking about some other Yazeed (there were a Sahaabi or two also by this name).
Even though we have the same Quran, Sunnis and Shiahs have different Ahadith/Sunnah and history books and the account of exactly what happened during Karbala varies with both sides. I know it’s kind of hard to see where the other side is coming from if one has just been indoctrinated with one story all their lives and anything contradicting that is unpalatable so they label anyone who doesn’t agree with them a Nasibi or a Rafidi.
All Sunnis believe Imam Hussayn
was right and is in Jannah, but regarding Yazeed we Sunnis fall into 3 opnions:
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Some curse Yazeed and hold him responsible as the murderer of Imam Hussayn
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Others believe that Yazeed did not order the murder of Hussayn
and that his governor carried it out against his orders, the group who is of this view still believe that Imam Hussayn
was a righteous martyr but they simply don’t believe he was killed on the orders of Yazeed, they believe Yazeed actually cried when he heard of the martyrdom of Hussayn
, some but not all of this group believe Yazeed to be a Sahaabi, it is probably this group who would say
after his name.
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There is a third group who leave Yazeed to Allah’s judgement, they neither curse him nor praise him.
Personally I agree with the third group, I don’t know whether Yazeed killed our Imam Hussayn
or not, if he did Allaah will deal with him, there’s no need to praise him he wasn’t a Sahaabi, or did anything significant for the Muslims, he wasn’t of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, just one of the past leaders…
…It’s enough for me to know our Imam Hussayn
together with his brother is the Prince of Paradise as his Holy Mother the Lady Fatimah
is the Queen of Paradise, it’s enough for me to know that the Holy Family are in Paradise (may the Lord unite us with them) and Allah will punish their enemies whoever they maybe.
I believe in the Quran and the Sihah-Sittah only, the history books are not an authentic source of Islam, so I don’t know what in them is true and what is not, whether they were wrote by Sunnis, Shiahs, Shiah-influenced Sunnis, Kharjites or whatever I can’t rely on them.
In my opnion instead of brooding over historical events we should try and concentrate more on the message God’s Prophet
, His Family (R) and His Companions (R) upheld.
For us Sunnis Karbala is a matter of history, not of Aqeedah or Iman…
…Don’t get me wrong we believe Imam Hussayn
was righteous and that he is in Jannah but we also believe God is Just and will punish the murderers of His Saints (R) whether those muderer was Yazeed, Ubaidullah or both.
We don’t beat ourselves up over the incident or make it part of our Aqeedah or religious practices.