Fugitive puritanical Islamic preacher Zakir Naik has categorically said that he believes drinking camel urine is beneficial because prophet Muhammad said so.
Zakir Naik who now lives in Malaysia and through one of his online sermons said,“Camel urine is pure, can be used to treat diseases, but cannot say the same about cow urine,”.
Zakir Naik who has nearly 5 lakh subscribers in his YouTube channel gave a detailed explanation of the health benefits of camel urine. He regularly uses the ‘gaumutra’ (cow urine) jibe to insult Hindus and believes camel urine is more beneficial to health.
The fugitive cleric was answering questions posed by three believers who wanted to know about the health benefits of camel urine and milk in accordance with Quran. Naik claimed, “There are various researches which confirm that there are various benefits for the human being in drinking camel’s urine.”
To give credence to his claim Naik gave the reference of a Persian physician named Ibn Sina and said, “Amongst all urines, the most beneficial is the urine of the Bedouin camels. Today, after doing laboratory tests, we have come to know that the camel’s urine contains potassium and albuminous proteins. We know it also contains traces of uric acid, sodium as well as creatin.”
He also said camel urine has properties to treat cancer and asked his followers to never question the Quran or Hadiths and said, “You can always do research later. Science is not the criteria to determine whether you should believe in the Hadith or not. If Hadith is authentic, we believe in it irrespective of whether science belives in it or not,”.
Towards the end of his video, Zakir Naik quoted verse 5686 of the Hadith of Sahih-al-Bukhari. It goes as, “The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy. Then they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. When the news reached the Prophet e [sic] sent some people in their pursuit. When they were brought, he cut their hands and feet and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron”.
He also said that the foundation for Islam is for perpetual war against non-Muslims and make holy war polytheists, As per Islam Naik said if they refuse to accept Islam, demand Jizya which is a form of tax on non-Muslims (Sahih Muslim 4294).
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