Renowned religious scholar and expert in comparative analysis of religions Dr. Zakir Naik have arrived on an official visit to Pakistan and held meetings in various cities here programs I will attend.
Dr. Zakir Naik in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore on different days from October 5 to October 20 Meetings All the preparations have been completed and Dr. Zakir Naik’s son Sheikh Faruk Naik will also address these gatherings.
Dr. Zakir Naik has visited Pakistan before but the 1991 visit to Pakistan proved to be a turning point in his life.
Based on his life story Video In the series (ZAKIR NAIK BIOGRAPHY: MY LIFE AND MY STORY – from a Stammerer to an Islamic Orator & Hijrah), Dr. Zakir Naik said that in 1991, he came to Pakistan and met religious scholar Dr. Israr Ahmed in Lahore.
According to Dr. Zakir Naik, ‘Dr. Israr Ahmed is at the highest position among the Urdu-speaking religious preachers of the world.’
Dr. Zakir Naik says that I asked Dr. Israr Ahmed that my MBBS has been completed and now I will practice and also do dawat work.
According to Dr. Zakir Naik, Dr. Israr Ahmed told me, ‘You have to choose between being a medical practitioner and a Da’i because you cannot do both at the same time. Dr. Israr himself was also a medical doctor.
“On my return to India, I started thinking and took my father’s advice that I was thinking of a two-hour dawa and the rest of the time for medical practice, which my father did not object to.”
Dr. Zakir Naik requested his father to take five thousand Indian rupees per month and a small room and thus in this room he founded the Islamic Research Foundation.
After that, Dr. Zakir Naik told father that now I will give 50% medical and remaining hours to dawat, and father did not object to this, after some time he told father that now I should give full time to dawat. Ga and Dad happily agreed.
Thus, on the advice of Dr. Israr Ahmed, Dr. Zakir Naik left the medical line and focused on the work of dawat and after that continued to give religious lectures in various countries including India.
Language Stuttering and Poverty
Dr. Zakir Naik was born in 1965 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Regarding his stuttering, Dr. Zakir Naik says that when he was in school, there was a subject of public speaking in his syllabus. According to Dr. Zakir Naik in this article, ‘Teachers took pity on me and gave me grades and passed me because I had a stutter and could not speak properly.’
“However, later this became my experience in public speaking and the strange thing was that when I used to give a lecture in a gathering of non-Muslims, I used to speak fluently, but when I came home to speak, I would have the same stuttering problem.”
Dr. Zakir Naik did his primary education from St. Peter’s High School, Mumbai, completed his college and enrolled in medicine at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College.
After studying for two years, he migrated to National Topiwala Medical College and completed his MBBS degree from there and started his internship.
Dr. Zakir Naik tells about his early financial situation that his father was so poor that he used to distribute milk and newspapers to different houses to meet his medical fees.
“I am proud that I am the son of a Gawale who has brought us to this point through his hard work. My father himself had reached the point of becoming the first Muslim president of the Psychiatric Association of India.’
He had a stuttering problem, but growing up, he speaks fluently in such a way that no one even realizes that he had a stuttering problem in his childhood.
He has told in the video series based on his life story that his father Dr. Abdul Kareem Naik was a famous psychologist of India, in 1987 when the famous religious scholar of South Africa Sheikh Ahmed Deedat visited Mumbai, Dr. Zakir Naik’s father visited him. met and later introduced Dr. Zakir, thus Zakir was impressed by him in the first meeting.
After that Ahmed Deedat was again requested to visit India and again in 1988 Sheikh Ahmed Deedat came to Mumbai, he stayed here for 10 days, Dr. Zakir Naik’s father organized meetings for him and during that time Dr. Zakir began to be influenced by his teachings.
After that, Dr. Zakir Naik kept listening to various lectures of Sheikh Deedat and kept collecting their cassettes in his library.
Some time later, Dr. Zakir went to South Africa, where as a young man he addressed and lectured in a mosque for the first time internationally.
According to Dr. Zakir Naik, Ahmed Deedat also played an important role in changing his life.
Leaving India and settling in Malaysia
Dr. Zakir Naik has worked hard since setting up his foundation till 2007 and addressed various forums and gatherings as a religious scholar and researcher in different countries.
Participated in popular religious ceremonies and debates around the world, however, after 2007, Dr. Zakir Naik started facing some political problems.
He has written in his autobiography that for the first time in 2010 one of my videos was criticized and some political parties in India also started raising objections to my speeches.
There was an earlier blast in Bangladesh in 2008, and some Indian newspapers reported that one of the attackers was inspired by Dr. Zakir Naik.
However, according to Dr. Naik, some newspapers in Bangladesh corrected the news, but Indian newspapers did not, saying that he might be a fan, but the element of influence was not in it.
Dr. Zakir Naik subsequently became known as a ‘controversial’ religious figure in India, and also faced charges of money laundering and sedition in India.
According to Dr. Zakir Naik, about 20 countries of the world requested him to reside, but due to the beauty of Malaysia and the nurturing of Islam here, he chose Malaysia and shifted here in 2016.
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After that, the Indian government also requested the arrest of Dr. Zakir Naik through Interpol, but according to Dr. Zakir Naik, Interpol has rejected India’s request several times without any evidence.
According to Dr. Zakir Naik, in 2010 in the government of Theresa May, he was told to give lectures to the Muslims there, but the British government expelled him from his country.
What can be gained from Dr. Zakir Naik’s visit to Pakistan?
Director of Institute of Education and Research of Peshawar University Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Inamullah has said that the people of Pakistan can get a lot of benefit from Dr. Zakir Naik’s visit to Pakistan.
He said that Pakistan is suffering from crises at the moment and maybe his speeches will create patience and tolerance in people and they will know that worldly affairs can be improved by practicing religion.
He is being criticized by some users on social media, but Dr. Inam says that criticism is not a bad thing if it is in the moral realm.
He further said that Dr. Zakir Naik is an expert in comparative analysis of religions and his criticism can be of great benefit to him and his critics.
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2024-10-02 16:54:09
