dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (born October 18 th , 1965) is an Indian public speaker and writer on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. Zakir Naik was born in Mumbai , Maharastra , India. He studied at St Peter's High School and Kishinchand Chellaram College. Later, he trained as a medical doctor at the Karnataka Lingayat Education Society's J. N. Medical College, Belgaum, Karnataka. In 1991 he stopped work as a medical medist and started working in the field of Dawah , and founded the IRF. Naik says he was inspired by Ahmed Deedat , an Islamic preacher, having met him in 1987. Naik says that his goal is to "concentrate on the educated Muslim youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel the religion is outdated". He considers it a duty of every Muslim to remove perceived misconceptions about Islam and to counter what he views as the Western media's anti-Islamic bias in the aftermath of th...