Mon 01 June 2020:
Zaira star of the Bollywood movie Dangal, had caused a stir last year, when she announced that she was ending her career in Bollywood as it threatened her “relationship” with Islam.
Zaira Wasim, was in the news last weekend for a post on social media. Amid heavy trolling, Zaira briefly deactivated her Twitter and Instagram handles. “So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood: Signs openly self-explained: but they were steeped in arrogance—a people given to sin -Qur’an 7:133 (sic),” Zaira had said in the now deleted post.
On Sunday, Zakir Naik, who has been based in Malaysia since 2016 and is wanted in India, uploaded a video on Zaira Wasim on his Facebook handle on Sunday.
The video is titled We Support Zaira Wasim’s Decision to Quit Bollywood and Spread the Message of Islam on Social Media—Dr Zakir Naik. Naik talks about Zaira Wasim in response to a question from a viewer.
Naik states he “congratulates” Zaira Wasim for taking the decision to leave Bollywood. Naik argues that “most of the part of Bollywood is not appropriate for a practising Muslim” and adds “It takes a lot of courage and sacrifice for a person famous in Bollywood to quit Bollywood.” Referring to Islamic teachings, Naik claims Allah will reward Zaira multiple times more than “the sin she was doing”.
Referring to Zaira Wasim’s post on locusts, Zakir Naik alleged the “rightwing” media, which mainly supports the “present unjust government, the BJP and RSS” had taken a quote and added their own information. Naik claimed that the media had insinuated Zaira Wasim was talking about India, but declared her tweet did not mention the country.
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