Regarding Dr. Zakir Naik, he is following the same vein of strong Islamic debate as Sheikh Ahmad Deedat, who was his teacher. He has described Dr. Naik was Deedat 2.0 due to his strong ability to give proofs for Islam and the Quran, and ability to refute religious claims of other religions using their own scripture.
Well, he is falling short compared to Deedat. But every one is a different person, I don't blame him for that. I do blame him for the misinformation he spreads, youtube is full of claims counter-claims and more claims. Also you heard his views about Pakistan and India.
The amount of service he has done to spread Islam and strengthen Muslims' faith cannot be emulated by you or I. We should be in gratitude for his relentless defense of Islam.
I am not denying it, but there are many da'ees on this land, the un-named/un-known da'ees. He is not the only one and he shouldn't be treated/presented/thought to be the only one. Knowledge is not bound by any one person, one should take it from any one. And if the same person is talking sh-t about some thing then he should be told that what he is talking is pure shiat. And that is the case of him talking about Pakistan.
Ummah is an Islamic concept and the legacy of Sayyidina Muhammad SAWS. It is not the sole property of KSA or Iran.
Ummah is a transcendent concept which should lead to unity, but unfortunately in today's cut-throat, backstabbing Muslim world, it is just used to make fools out of more devout, conservative nations like ours.
This is not the fault of Islam, but the fault of Muslims today. I like how Malcolm X summed up this concept quite succinctly.
Don't have any problem this, but taking all of it into consideration in a realistic perspective, it is not possible in at-least the foreseeable future. I wrote in my Iran thread that instead of "hoha" Iran should focus on its diplomatic relations with muslim countries. Who in the muslim world doesn't want to see a united muslim states? But we are nowhere reaching there any time soon and that is a reality. So why live in delusions, which we have been doing for past 70 years. Becoming a
pitho of one country in the name of Ummah and then becoming a
pitho of another country in the name of Ummah.
Our Pakistani population is just naive and uneducated, they don't know the reality of the world around them and assume that every Muslim is their friend, which is not the case.
This is the crux for my argument too.
We should not be critical of such distinguished scholars who have had such a strong imprint on our nation and people.
Well not a fan of him, he became more of a political figure than a religious figure. Had he stayed away from politics, I would have been fine. And this had repercussion, today you see TLP, whose leader says "
Dangar Padri diya Putra", we had Fazlul Rehman, and we have the now soon to be forgotten JI.