Dr Zakir Naik - Life Line

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (Urdu: ذاکر عبدالکریم نائیک; born 18 October 1965) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative Religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organisation that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai, UAE. He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist.
Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a doctor. He attended St. Peter's High School in Mumbai. Later he enrolled at Kishinchan Chellaram College, before studying medicine at Topiwla National Medical College & Nair Hospital and later the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelar of Medicine & Surgery (MBBS).
In 1991 he 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 is sometimes referred to as "Deedat plus", a label given to him by Deedat himself.). 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the educated Muslim youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel the religion is outdated."He considers it a duty of every Muslim to remove perceived misconceptions about Islam and to counter what he views as the Western media's anti-Islamic bias in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 the September 11,2001 (also known as 9/11) in the United States.
Naik has held many debates and lectures around the world,and still is on it.