Zakir Naik is good dai in what he does, may Allah reward him with good, and he made some points that can have misundestanding when using words, but saying in general that i am just muslim and that Allah dosnt call us in Quran and sunah with other names, this is wrong and contradict all generations of scholars from the time of tabiine until now
Allah and Prophets inform us that there people Muslims and Mumin, Mumin is Muslim and Mumin, but a person can be a Muslim but not a Mumin, so its weak proof that there is no other name in Quran and sunnah, muslims are olso called fasik, etc in Quran and sunnah-if they are into thos actions, there are labels of Muslims according to their actions
we have scient of tafsir, fikh, ect with are used by brother Zakir Naik, does that mean he is using something wich is not mention in Quran !!??, thos things are not mention in Quran and not in sunnah
there is verse, the meaning, thos that dont follow words of Allah, the Prophet and " the path of believers", it means the path of sahaba, so this is clear proof that Allah has shown to us wich is the path to follow, and there are hadith that tells us to follow the sahaba-salaf's
people in many places are called according to their fathers name or according to their children names, like Ibn Fulan, or Abu fulan, or Bint Fulan, or Ummu Fulana, does that mean that the person is not the same person, does that mean that Zakir Naik is not Zakir naik, if he is called o Abu Fulan ?
Brother Zakir Naik is called Dr, why dr, why not the compled word but just the short term Dr, and why not to call him just Muslim zakir naik, why he need his name Zakir Naik, its enough to say he is Human, or man, or Human Muslim !!!
the names that are used by followers of the sahaba that came after them, the tabiine, the tabiine scholars didnt use thos words to divide muslims, becasue thos old clasical scholars that used words, ahlu sunah, ahlul hadith, athari, they informed us that dividing into sect in islam is not alowed-they known that in detail, its a clear verse, but thos words where used as a sign to inform about one issue, when sect start to show up the scholars explain to the people wich is corect path, so they said " follow the sunah of Prophet" or be from Ahlul-sunnah-followers of sunah, its just a word of explanation to direct people where is corect path, not to divide muslim, but to separate them from the wrong path and to put them away from sects
olso there is hadith that ummah with divide into 73 sect, others in hell, one in paradise, sahaba asked, wich one is the saved one, Prophet alayhi salam said " the one that follows my sunnah and my companions"
even Prophet alayhi salam used word's to label thos that are in corect path, so what zakir naik said its very wrong and contradict all the scholars before
if he means that there is a place when we use just the word muslim, then its ok, sometimes becasue of dawah we dont go into thos things, we explain basic of islam, but if there is a need to tell the people the corect way of understanding islam-then we tell them, becasue Quran and Hadith came to us up to today throught that way, and that way is " Sahabas and the other after them that followed them, until today ", so nothing wrong to say ahlu sunah or salafi