In the last 28 years Dr Zakir Naik has delivered over 2,500 public talks
in the USA, Canada, UK, Italy, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Yemen, South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Algeria, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius,
Maldives and many other countries, in addition to numerous public talks in India. In April 2012, his public talk in Kishanganj, Bihar, in India was Alhamdulillaah attended by over one million people being one of the largest gathering in the world for any religious lecture by a single orator. His talks in Indonesia in 2017 and in Malaysia in 2019, Alhamdulillaah attracted more than 100,000 people.
Amongst the 1.2 billion plus population of India Alhamdulillaah Dr Zakir Naik was ranked No. 82
in the ‘100 Most Influential People in India’ list published by Indian Express in the year 2009 and ranked No. 89 in 2010. He was ranked No. 3 in the ‘Top 10 Spiritual Gurus of India’ in 2009 and topped this list in 2010. He is ranked amongst the top 70 in the book ‘The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World’ published by Georgetown University in the last 13 editions from 2011 to 2023. In the same book in the list of ‘The Top 100 Cumulative Influence over 10 years’ Dr Zakir was ranked No. 79.
