Dear Brother, I respect ur feeling for barelwi and deobandi. What Zakir Naik is doing is not a fitna, ok if reading and understanding Quran and telling people what is Sunnah, if you call this as fitna, then its fine. You termed Zakir Naik as Gair mukallid? WHY? Did any of the imam said follow us...? Whome did they follow? A true salafi will never say wrong abt any imam, they were correct as per the information they have... As for deobandi, I would advice your to read books written by kasim nanotvi and ashraf ali thanvi, they have written some sentences which is enough for them to be termed as kafir, if they have not repented their sins, and we dont term these people as kafir, it is said in quran, we r just re-quoting. I would advice u to read quran with meaning and find in it what is SHIRK and BIDAH according to Quran and not any barelwi or deobandi alim.. be neutral and think..Find out in Quran why did Allah termed the people of Makkah as Kafir, even though they were believing in ONENESS OF ALLAH as we do today. I am not favouring Zakir Naik... but I want you to leave zakir naik apart and try to find the answers for my questions by research and not by asking any Ulema.. Prophet said: It is obligatory for all Muslims to have knowledge of Islam ( Shariah), he didnt say that only ulema should have knowledge.. Now people say they spent life in getting in quran and hadees, so what cant they be wrong, they r also human beings, shaitan can overpower them easily. For engineering and MBBS, we spent years reading many books for one answer, cant we read just one Quran and one simple authentic hadees book, to make our duniya and akhirat. W/salam.