WHO IS AHMAD DEEDAT?

Sheikh Ahmed Hoosen Deedat was Born on the 01 July 1918 in the Surat
district of India in 1918. His father emigrated to South Africa in
1927 with him. Ahmed Deedat was a very bright student and excelled in
school. Lack of finance interrupted his schooling and at an early age
of 16 he took on the first of many jobs in retailing and short
assistant.

After reading a book called Izharul Haq – The Truth revealed, a book
about a debate with Christian Missionaries in the then British India,
Sheikh Deedat was spurred on in the direction of Dawah – Islamic
Missionary Activity to halt the tide of the then Christian onslaught
against Islam.

Over the next four decades, he immersed himself into a host of
activities. Conducting Bible classes, lectures and debates the world
over. He established the first Islamic Seminary in Southern Africa to
train propagators at Assalaam educational Institute - Braemar.

He is the founder of the largest Islamic Dawah Organization in the
world, the Islamic Propagation Center International and became its
president.

He has published more than 20 books and distributed millions of
copies of FREE literature and pamphlets the world over. Many of
Sheikh Deedat's publications have been translated into the many
different languages of the world : Russian, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali,
Bangladeshi, French, Amharic, Chinese, Japanese, Mayalam,
Indonesian,, Zulu , Afrikaans, Dutch, Norwegian amongst others.

He delivered thousands of lectures all over the world, crossing all
the continents and successfully engaging some of the biggest names in
Christian evangelists in public debates. Sheikh Deedat's debates and
lectures are available all over the world in the various languages in
Video and DVD format.

His career in the field of Comparative Religion took him across all
five continents and dialogue with the heads of the Protestant world
in America and the late Pope John Paul.

So fearless was his stand in defending the truth that Sheikh Deedat
was refused entry into France and Nigeria on the pretext that ‘ he
would cause a civil unrest'.

Sheikh Deedat also received a personal phone call at the IPCI from
former President Nelson Mandela who was in Saudi Arabia at the time,
congratulating Deedat for his international icon status in the Muslim
World.

He was awarded the prestigious King Faisal Award in 1986 for his
sterling services to Islam in the field of Propagation.