**Tribute and Times of Sheikh Ahmed Deedat ( Must See )
**Ahmed Hoosen Deedat (July 1, 1918 - August 8, 2005), born in the Surat District of India, was a Sunni Islamic scholar, author and lecturer. His family migrated to South Africa in 1927. He established the first Islamic religious institution in South Africa to train preachers at the Assalaam Institute in Braemar. He was the president of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI), until he suffered from a stroke which left him paralyzed. He published over 20 books and distributed millions of copies of pamphlets for free, many of which had been translated into various languages. His first lecture was entitled “Muhammad (peace be upon him): Messenger of Peace,” and it was delivered in 1940, to 15 people at a cinema in his province.
Within a short space of time, the numbers grew and people crossed the racial divides which were then prevalent in apartheid South Africa, to listen to him, and to participate in the questions and answers sessions which followed his lectures.
Although some Christians and Muslims criticized him for his blunt style, several people did convert to Islam because of his books and lectures, and da`wah (teaching Islam) soon began to dominate his life, with the audiences at his lectures reaching forty thousand. In 1957, Sheikh Deedat, together with two of his friends, founded the Islamic Propagation Center which printed a variety of books and offered classes to new Muslims. In 1986, he visited Saudi Arabia for a conference, and in his first television interview, became notable in the Arab world with his dynamic personality and knowledge of comparative religion. He then visited the United Kingdom, Morocco, Kenya, Sweden, Australia and Denmark on lecture and debating tours. Deedat’s passionate, some say inflammatory, style of propagating the Islamic faith stirred confrontation not only with people of other faiths, but with nations as well – Singapore banned him from entering their country2, France and Nigeria refused him entry out of concern that he would stir up “civil unrest” and Australia threatened to deport him.2 In the United States, he became famous for a debate with the American Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, witnessed by 8,000 people on the topic Is the Bible the Word of God.
Sheikh Ahmed Deedat suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed from the neck down, and also meant that he could no longer speak or swallow. He was flown to a hospital in Riyadh, where he was taught to communicate through a series of eye-movements. He spent the last nine years of his life in a bed in his home in Verulam, South Africa, encouraging people to engage in da`wah. He continued to receive hundreds of letters of support from around the world. During these years, rumors spread throughout the Internet that he was already dead, and even some websites that contained his pamphlets mentioned as early as 2002 that he was dead. On August 8, 2005, Ahmed Deedat finally succumbed to his prolonged illness and died at his home in Trevennen Road, Verulam in the province of KwaZulu Natal.
Description:
How did Sheikh Ahmed live ? how he started the Dawah ? who were coming to his work place to practice ?! How did he find the book ? it sounds Arabic !
This Film talks about Sheikh Deedat’s Story the Great Muslim Scholar in Comparative religion in the 20th Century.
( there is Arabic Subtitle )
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