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Remembering the life of Sheikh Ahmed Deedat
Sheikh Deedat was a charismatic, self-taught Muslim scholar from South Africa, most famous for engaging Christian evangelists in public debate. In , he debated Jimmy Swaggart and even challenged the late Pope John Paul II to a debate in the Vatican Square.
His son, Yousuf Deedat, calls him a “lion of the stage”.
But while Sheikh Deedat was most famous for his sharp and impassioned debating style, he was also a prolific writer.
He published more than 20 books and wrote free literature and pamphlets, of which millions of copies were distributed across the globe.
Many of his publications were translated into other languages, and in Saudi Arabia awarded Deedat the King Faisal Award for his services to Islam.
This impressive body of work made Ahmed Deedat a celebrated figure in the Muslim world.
Yousuf Deedat recalls how former South African President Nelson Mandela called his father during a presidential visit to Saudi Arabia
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The life of Shaikh Ahmed Deedat
Deedat suffered a stroke in that left him paralysed and without the power of speech. Doctors said he would not live, but Deedat continued to work, finally passing away on 8 August from kidney failure. He was
As messages of support and sympathy poured into the offices of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI) – the centre he established – its director, Rafik Hassan, told : “Shaikh Ahmed Deedat’s legacy lives.
“He motivated and inspired millions of people around the globe and from different religions and backgrounds.”
One beundrare, Hani Abu Fuad, a Palestinian lärjunge in Jordan, said South Africa is famous for two remarkable personalities: Mandela and Deedat. “These are our heroes,” he told
Deedat sought to dispel “myths and lies about Islam and Christianity” through books such as Crucifixion or Cruci-Fiction? and What the Bible says about Muhammed, said former IPCI director and anställda friend Fuad Hendricks.
A stroke inom • Ahmed DeedatMuslim thinker, orator and missionary from South Africa (–) Ahmed Husein Deedat (Gujarati: અહમદ હુસેન દીદત; Urdu: احمد حسین دیدات; Arabic: أحمد حسين ديدات; 1 July – 8 August ), was a South African and Indian self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on Comparative Religion.[3][1] He was best known as a Muslimmissionary, who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible. Deedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several widely distributed booklets on Islam and Christianity.[4] He was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in for his fifty years of missionary work. He wrote and lectured in English.[5] Early years (–)[edit]Deedat was born to Gujarati Muslim parents in the town of Tadkeshwar, British India in [6] His father had emigrated to South Africa shortly afte |