However, due to financial circumstances, he had to quit school and start working by the time he was at the age of 16. Arriving in South Africa, Deedat applied himself with diligence to his studies, overcoming the language barrier and excelling in school, even getting promoted until he completed standard 6. His mother died only a few months after his departure. At the age of 9, Deedat left India to join his father in what is now known as Kwazulu-Natal. His father had emigrated to South Africa shortly after his birth. Early years (1918–1942) ĭeedat was born in the town of Tadkeshwar, Surat, Bombay Presidency, British India in 1918. He was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in 1986 for his fifty years of missionary work. He was best known as a Muslim missionary, who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible.ĭeedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organisation, and wrote several widely distributed booklets on Islam and Christianity. Ahmed Husein Deedat ( Gujarati: અહમદ હુસેન દીદત Urdu: احمد حسین دیدات Arabic: احمد حسين ديدات), also known as Ahmed Deedat (1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005), was a self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on Comparative Religion from South Africa.
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