He has been making one controversial statement after another in the name of Islam much to the anger of the Pakistani population, specially the educated ones.
The 59-year-old Deobandi scholar, who is wanted on terror finance charges by the Indian government, fled to Malaysia and now he is on a month-long visit to Pakistan addressing large gatherings in Karachi and other cities.
His latest statement made at the Governor House in Karachi on October 3 that unmarried women are "prostitutes" and "public property" has evoked sharp reactions in the local media. He said every unmarried woman should get married as soon as possible and if she does not find an unmarried man she should wed a married man else she risks becoming "bazaari aurat" or public property. Influencers like Ali Abbas, Shafaat Ali, Absa Komal etc have slammed him for the highly insensitive remark about unmarried women.
What is making matters worse is that he has been projected as an Islamic scholar." Some of the commentators have called him nalayak" (incompetent) and said he was doing a huge disservice to Islam by issuing such statements. Some of them said after Dr Naik's statements life would become hell for single women in Pakistan.
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