Your Views and Dr. Zakir Naik!

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Re: Your Views and Dr. Zakir Naik!

@Das_Reich

Firstly Quran is full of historical anecdotes too and secondly Tabari’s history does not in anyway exonerate yazid of his crimes.There are narrations ( could very well be true) of yazid treating hussains family very kindly in syria, this is very much possible given the kinship between hashimites and ummayyads.It does not in anyway mean that yazid would not approve of his political opponent hussains killing.There are numerous examples of different clans of quraish treating each other’s families kindly after cutting the throats of their relatives.

I don’t have issue with historical events mentioned in Quran. My point is criticising and devaluing a person’s knowledge on religion just because he doesn’t follow a particular version of 1400 year history is not justified. Quran got authenticity for me and its part of my belief but authenticity of historical material written a century after the incident of Karbala is not that guaranteed and neither one is required to make that part of his / her faith.

The issue is just not limited to Yazid, but also to other 3 caliphs and Ameer Muawiya too and wives of the Prophet and I would rather opt to be neutral on commenting personality of those, who are otherwise portrayed as evil as per one version of history. Our issue is we always hilight negative aspects of people and forget the positive contributions they made.