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everybody how are you you come to get
some food for the soul you've been
replete with everything El but it's not
satisfying the soul money can't buy that
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it alhamdulillah Alum peace be with you
greetings of peace to everybody all
around the globe that's tuning in to the
dean show my next guest my next guest
Shake Z in Dallas that's where we're at
we're guests here in Dallas and we're
bringing you our guest here on the dean
show s Zia when he comes back he's
silencing the critics because there's
many people opening their mouths they
know nothing about Islam and it
distorting the truth and you know what
he got a little bit upset and he didn't
take out his sword he took out the pen
and he wrote this book silencing the
critics and we're going to be right back
with shik Zia to discuss this wonderful
piece of work that he put together here
on the dean show
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the peace be with
youah shik Zia how are you alhamdulillah
great I was taking a class time is short
so I'm just get into it shik Omar suan
you know him good friends with them
absolutely had a class refuting the
misconceptions about Islam he was using
your book I'm aware of that I was using
your I was I was reading a book it was
part of the curriculum in the CL mishkat
University I said I got to meet this
brother I got to meet this sh so
wonderful book and alhamdulillah you
make Dua sincerely to look we're doing
the show now alhamdulillah I said every
Muslim has to have this book silence in
the critics what inspire you inspired
you what motivated you to write this
book well basically like you said U you
hear all of these people so-called
experts on Islam uh running their mouth
of on various talk shows on TV and uh
basically saying things about Islam
which were very very frustrating to me
and out of sheer frustration I just sat
down one day and decided I'm just going
to do it and within 6 months I had the
book ready and published was this like a
multiple choice either Car Bomb sword
machete or this or these weren't even
options it was you know what I'm saying
cuz most people think Muslims get angry
and they're blowing people up they're
blowing themselves up this is not what
Islam teaches absolutely not and you did
the right thing absolutely because the
pen sometimes it's mightier than the
sword mightier than the sword tell us a
little bit really before we dwell into
the book tell us a little bit about
yourself well I was actually born in aad
Kashmir which is on the Pakistani side
the Pakistani side of Kashmir uh at a
very young age I moved to England and I
was raised in England uh primarily I was
in in London the southern part of London
which is uh croon uh people who are
familiar with England are going to be
aware that the home office and a lot of
uh very prominent places are in croin uh
as I grew up my family actually moved to
the north of England uh in a place uh
called dubury which is close to leads
Bradford in a in in in uh an area which
is called Yorkshire West Yorkshire and
uh that's basically where I grew up
after that uh and uh where I did my
Islamic Studies I memorized the Quran I
did the Alim course which uh totaled
from beginning to end memorization of uh
Quran until the end of my studies
approximately 12 years uh after I
graduated I was an Imam in England
Manchester everybody knows Manchester
United I was there for a year or so as
an Imam uh and then after that I got the
opportunity to come to the states and
since 1995 or the end of 1995 I've been
in the United States you got your PhD
also yes I did my PhD at a place called
The Graduate theological Foundation
which is U an Institute specifically for
people who are involved in religious
theological um you know backgrounds uh
so you could be Christian Jewish Muslim
uh whatever religious background you're
from you can uh Advance your studies
through the uh gtf or graduate
theological foundation and that's where
I did my PhD so you wrote on a subject
that you're qualified to write on you
memorize the verbatim word of God the
Quran which is a living miracle for even
those critics of Islam if they come at
it with a sincere heart they'll see that
look you know they put it to the it is
indeed from the creator of the heavens
and earth and maybe they wouldn't be
writing such stuff and you have
dedicated your life to learning Islam is
that right absolutely do you how do you
feel when you see people such as you
know the people that you listed in your
book you've actually listed some of the
the opponents the critics of Islam how
do you feel when you when you hear them
aligning and vilifying this beautiful
way of life well it's frustrating to a
point that if you were to read uh any of
the things that they say on a website it
used to keep me awake at night that's
how frustrating it was so I made it a
point not to uh go to these websites
before going to sleep because it was
that frustrating and the only way that I
could vent my frustration was basically
to write this book and hopefully uh
people are benefiting from it and really
seeing through all of the uh uh B and
smoke that these people try to create in
uh blemishing it trying to blemish Islam
so tell us what give us an example of
some of the things that you heard and
got you frustrated and then you refuted
it through the correct knowledge well uh
something that probably all of us have
heard phrases like creeping Sharia or
stealth Jihad uh things that um you know
people are saying that the Muslims are
coming in into the country and they're
changing the system slowly slowly to and
and the objective of the Muslims is to
try to implement Shar in uh the whole of
the US and of course this is nonsense
because being a minority in this country
uh we're less than 2% of the whole
population and uh being such a minority
it's impossible to impose something that
98% of the population may not may not
want to uh Implement in their lives um
and logically I put into the book this
example that if anybody was to implement
any kind of religious um you know uh
religious uh religious U um what do you
call uh religious things into the the uh
government the Christian right would
have done that a long time ago uh
Christian Christian symbolism uh
Christian icons for example The Ten
Commandments even to this day uh the
Christians have a hard time trying to
get uh plaques of the Ten Commandment or
pictures of the Ten Commandments into
state or federal cour houses because
there is supposed to be a distinction
between uh church and state at the state
and federal level uh so therefore if the
Christians have not been able to
implement any anything religious being a
majority in this country how is it that
a minority of less than 2% are going to
implement Sharia into a country which is
largely against it so these are the
kinds of logical arguments that I put
into the book of course there are many
many other things things like honor
killings uh forced marriages uh FGM
which is uh you know female genital
mutilation uh all of these things are
attributed to Islam whereas they are
mostly cultural things which come from U
for example FGM comes from mainly
African countries uh honor killings that
they are not specifically uh linked to
Islam uh but other cultures also
Implement these kinds of things um so
all the myths that are associated with
Islam are basically uh tackled in this
book in this book silencing the critics
and where with Shake Zia PhD we're going
to be right back with more here on the
dean show come and see what everyone's
talking about
but the argument here is that God out of
his
love cuz in all honesty if you really
wanted to do something you're going to
find a way where there's a will there's
a way
absolutely there are a few problems here
why were people of generations and
generations and generations being told
to worship one God ask that God for
forgiveness ask him for for salvation
seek his mercy no one else's
so he picked up the Quran which is the
last and final Testament the last and
final
Revelation I was 16 years 8 years in
active reserves and 8 years active duty
but uh the bottom line is that I'm an
opthamologist I'm a specialist in
Cataract and refractive surgery I'm the
medical director of a major
is these are not God God is the one who
created everything in this universe
that's the one I'm going to worship and
prostrate to how can you go wrong doing
that you don't believe in him you're out
of Islam cannot be a Muslim top 10
reasons why Jesus cannot be god let's
get right to it cannot be God number 10
number
10 back here on the dean show with shik
z and tell us do you feel this is just
you know uh what I sometimes you know
perceive that you know some of these
things you follow the mode of money do
you feel there's big business in bashing
Islam absolutely um I can't remember the
exact statistics but I I've heard that
it's a multi-million dollar industry and
uh included in this are so-called
ex-muslims and which I mentioned
actually in the book a person may be
named W chuat who claims that he used to
be a terrorist then he converted to
Christianity uh and these people
actually they demand speaking fees of
$10,000 per
CNN just caught him out didn't he
absolutely I mean they've been caught
out many many times but still uh the
glibble people of America they basically
buy into the whole story of being an ex
terrorist and what they the trick that
they have is that hey we were on the
inside and we know what's going on on
the inside and so that adds more
credibility to their story that's why
the the masses they accept them and
these guys are making millions uh of the
cability in the naivity of the of the uh
American I I make an example I say hey
look over there and I take what's in
your pocket you see you know distracting
people from the bigger issues so let's
get them you know focus on this fake
boogeyman is coming to get you Sharia
and the Muslims and people are all
scared and then bigger events that you
know we should be talking about are lost
and actually I mean if you look at what
happened in France yeah people were so
concerned about the nikab and the bka uh
and they were trying to uh Implement
that into law and and behind their backs
a real terrorist got into a Jewish
school and murdered you know so many
people while this whole thing was going
on so instead of focusing on the more
important things of actually catching
terrorists you know people are you know
focusing on these minor issues like the
bka and uh and things which we deem to
be very very minor uh things that we
should not be focused on and like I said
people uh are sneaking in through the
back door and and and doing what they do
okay let's get into the book now tell us
you know give us some examples I'm going
to throw something at you and then you
can also tell me what what what is you
know prevalent today that one of the
misconceptions terrorism okay it's it's
something that you know happened it
started before that I feel that you know
Muslims weren't looked down upon as they
were after 911 you know do you cover
this in your book does Islam justify
does it condone or does it condemn such
acts as 9 I know we' we've I mean it's
sad that we got to keep revisiting these
things but people keep revisiting you
cover this this topic in your book
clearly you outline it what Islam says
you know what's Islam stance how do you
cover this in your book right one of the
very first chapters I actually talk
about is the title is uh and the book
actually it's uh the titles are in
quotation marks why don't Muslims
condemn terrorism that's the biggest
question that always comes up to all
Muslims at open open houses at events in
the media Etc uh so I tackle that by
saying all of the uh places and the
locations that people have condemned
terrorism all the organizations that
have condemned terrorism and uh I make
it a point to tell the people that you
know when people are condemning
terrorism or Muslims are condemning
terrorism it's not a big thing for the
media to cover because it's not
glamorous okay it's not dramatic so
therefore the media doesn't want to
cover this therefore you don't get that
whole um the same imagery that you might
get for example if somebody actually
committed the terrorist attack uh people
that condemn it because it's not so
dramatic it's not covered by the media
uh so I have a whole chapter dedicated
to all these organizations all the uh
quotations given by organizations that
have condemned terrorism and uh like I
said it's it's uh all outlined in the
book All In the book tell us now moving
along Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
we know that he came with the same
message as Jesus Moses Abraham and all
the messengers of God to worship the
Creator and not his creation submit to
God this is what Jesus came with he
didn't come with anything different but
now people who know very little about
him or they'll take his teachings and
twist it you know and try to scare the
people saying he was a warlord he didn't
bring peace he was this and that you
cover this in your book how do you
address this misconception well there
are a lot of of things that people have
written about the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam for example this issue
of what they say
is is uh you know lying to people and
making them think that you're telling
the truth and uh what these uh people
who are against Islam they say is that
the prophet Muhammad actually encouraged
people to do that uh which couldn't be
further from the truth and they quote
for example Hadith of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi was in which he said
that if I take an oath to do something
and then I find something better than
that I expiate my oath and then I
basically I exp my oath and I break the
oath and I do that thing which is better
so they quote this Hadith and they say
look here's the prophet he's teaching
people to lie whereas we know that this
is the situation for example if a person
he has said to his wife I'm never going
to talk to you in my life I swear by
Allah I'm never going to talk to you in
my life so this is a kind of oath o that
a person should not be implementing it's
a bad oath to have taken but
nevertheless it's an oath all the same
so to get out of this oath he has to pay
the experation which is to either feed
or clothe 10 poor people or to set a
slave free or to um uh fast for three
continuous days so if he expiates for
this oath then he can break the oath and
then he's not going to be held
accountable for actually breaking the
oath because he's you know given the
experation but what these islamophobes
say is they just quote the Hadith and
say that look here's Prophet Muhammad
encouraging his followers to actually
lie so again this is just a simple
example but there are countless examples
of where they quote Hadith or ayat of
the Quran which mean one thing but when
taken out of context they basically give
the impression that it has it has a
completely different meaning so we are
not people who have a green light to lie
absolutely not not and this is a major
sin in Islam isn't it yeah there's only
one situation for example as the Quran
says a person puts a gun to your head
and he tells you denounce Islam so in
that situation to save your life you're
allowed to say okay I denounce Islam as
long as the heart itself it
is it has IM in it and you'll know that
in your heart you still have IM and by
your tongue you are basically denouncing
Islam just to save your life it is
permissible to do that and that's really
the only situation How about if your
wife cook you some food and she was like
upset for you during the week and now
you know you uh may put some too much
spices in the food and okay you're allow
she says honey how how's it taste you're
allowed to lie there too okay because
that would be uh counted as a white lie
and that's okay because and even the
Hadith say that that to put somebody at
ease and and to make a person feel good
it is permissible for a person to lie
and uh and this would be a classic
example of that but now you know you're
conveying The Message of Islam and
twisting the truth I mean that's
counterproductive not his creation and
obey God that's it on his terms what's
there to lie about that absolutely we're
going to be right back with more here
with SH Z on The Dean show okay you've
got your dream home and you've got your
dream car but you're going to get old
and things are going to happen to you in
your life and then what have you got at
the end of the day it's an empty dream
that has no real Foundation we are going
to die and we're going to meet our Lord
and he is going to judge us it becomes
an obligation for each single human
being to find out what the Quran is
Islam is telling us to stay away from
from things which are bad for your
person and bad for the
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society prohibits killing of innocent
human beings human life is precious back
here on the dean show with the author of
silencing the critics you did it with
the pen not with the sword and thank you
for being with here on a Dean show to
discuss your book at the end you're
going to let our audience know how they
can get this book all right cuz I I feel
that it's very important that people
have this book They're going to be able
to feel more comfortable they're going
to feel more comfortable being able to a
answer some of these false
misconceptions misrepresentations of
Islam you know using logic and using you
know the wonderful arguments that you
you bring up so we don't have to be
reactionaries and just getting emotional
and we know there's lying so sometimes
people might react the wrong way but we
need to use our intelligence right
that's why you wrote the book absolutely
okay continuing on tell us you you go
over verse I I just actually finished I
read um about 80% of the book 90% of the
book I just finished it on the plane
over here actually the the last part of
the book you go from Ayah from Ayah in
the Quran from verse to verse and all
the verses that are talking about you
know combat you where the people will
misquote them you actually show okay
they take the verse they leave what's in
front and after they they they don't
include it they'll quote it out of
context you know talk to us about this
yeah basically the one whole section of
the book deals with all those quranic
verses basically what I went to is one
of those uh anti-islamic websites and I
took every single verse that that
website was talking about critical of
Islam and I took the verse and then I
took the surrounding verses before and
after it and then put the meaning in in
its correct context
and explain to the people that what the
anti-islamic website is portraying the
violence Etc it's not exactly what it's
what it's uh what they are saying okay
so uh put into its correct context you
will find that actually what Islam is
encouraging is not Warfare but it's
encouraging people uh to uh lean towards
peace to lean towards treaties to try to
avoid Warfare to try to avoid fighting
and wherever there is the mention of
fighting you will find that it is
usually in response to people who are
attacking you first so that's if you go
through this whole section I believe
it's like 30 or 40 verses uh you will
find that you know it's real uh good
ammunition for a person who's ever been
um attacked in this way by having verses
of the Quran thrown at him he can just
look them up and say look this is what
it actually means so the whole section
in this book deals with that you don't
have to go into it now cuz we're almost
out of time but just go over some some
some highlights of the book that people
will get excited about knowing that okay
this is like oh I've been wondering how
to answer this question that question
you know what are some of the things
that people can look forward to reading
in the book okay well it talks about
terrorism for example uh it talks about
why the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam had multiple wives uh this
thing about the prophet Sall Ali
wasallam this about him marrying a
young and the arguments against it
um the issue uh cultural issues which
people associate with Islam like honor
killings forced marriages uh the concept
of vitude you know this is a very uh
common word used by these non-muslims
they say that the Muslims want to turn
us into zies what is the concept of AI
and what rights did the thei have under
an Islamic government okay uh so what is
exactly the definition of a um
like I said the issues related with
terrorism uh the verses which were
quoted out of context Hadith which were
quoted out of context the accusations
against the reliability of the Quran
okay all of the things for example some
people they say that the prophet Sall
ali wasallam uh he copied the Quran from
Christians or Jews uh and how to deal
with that uh the issue of uh some people
uh accusing Muslims of worshiping a moon
God where did that come from who
actually fabricated this accusation and
the answer to that even from non-muslim
sources there are people who denounce
that belief that is propagated that
Muslims worship some kind of Moon God
all in the book it's all in the book
okay where can people get the book well
uh the book is available on either the
website silencing thee critics. comom
you can go and purchase it directly from
there or if you go to amazon.com it's
available it's also available on the
Kindle uh so all of these three sources
uh you can get it from inah very very
soon I'm coming out with a second
edition which has more information uh
and it's organized in a in a better
structured way uh so that second edition
will be coming out soon and hopefully
it's going to be across all uh forms of
electronic uh Electronic media for
example the Kindle the Nook uh I ey
books etc etc it should be on that also
so that second addition within the next
couple of months should be released if
any anybody wants to have multiple
orders uh contact me at the Islamic
Center of Irving and I can tell them how
to get them at a at a cheaper discount
insh if Fox News CNN one of these big
networks wants to bring you on and they
have some of these people that are
listed in your book the people that are
m in Islam are you are you um up for the
go sure why not okay great so 30 seconds
now 30 SEC we got to cut out you know
for the person that's confuse he said
you know what I like this belief in one
God that you only worship the Creator
not the creation and that you do good
establish your life around the commands
of God you don't follow your lust and
desires you work to please the Creator
before you meet him and all the
wonderful teachings of Islam but he's
confused you know what I means I heard
some of this nonsense this phony baloney
mumbo jumbo out there what advice do you
have for that person that's just a
little bit you know confused my advice
for that person would be to go to
somebody knowledgeable who knows about
Islam and can basically answer every
single question that he has one by one
and any kind of doubts that he has they
can be uh they can be be quashed by a
person who has the true knowledge so go
to somebody knowledgeable who can answer
your questions uh and I'm very very sure
that any kind of doubts that you have uh
they will be eliminated by this
knowledgeable person inshallah thank you
very much for being with us here on the
dean show May God Almighty the Creator
Allah reward you thank you so much yeah
and that was shik Z PhD who wrote the
book silencing the critics had them on
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we're going to worship something I
figured I might as well worship the
Creator instead of any of the
Creations now in upon investigating all
the religions I remember finding out the
meaning of what Islam is what a Muslim
is those who surrender theel to God is a
Muslim those who surrender submit to God
God's will that is it Islam was pure it
was just you just pray to God your
creator I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
a li by side I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
lies I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
a li I am not afraid of stand alone
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