The Legacy of Deedat (Cont.) |
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the closeness of the missionary school made him a first audience for the young missionary student who used to come to his store to challenge him and pose questions and doubts that he had no clue how to answer; he searched for answers, and found many in the famous book “Izharul-Haqq, by “ a book that rebuts allegations made by non-Muslims.
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In 1940, Sheikh Deedat gave his first major public speech in the Durabn Avalon Cinema, it was titled “Muhammad (peace be upon Him) a Messenger of Peace”, the success he had brought more audience to his talks which were moved to a the Durban City Hall to accommodate the 2000 plus audience that faithfully attended his talks.
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Hallmark: Sheikh Deedat studied the Bible extensively and developed a very profound understanding of it, he wrote more than twenty books and gave thousands of talks that mostly focused on understanding the Bible; understanding life and mission of Prophet Jesus (peace be upon Him), Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him) in the Bible, comparing the Quran and the Bible. CONTINUED ON BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE... |
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1985 with a missionary prof. Floyd Clark; yet his most famous debate, called “the Great Debate” was held in the U.S. with Rev. Jimmy Swaggart. 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. In 1973 he established the IPCI “Islamic Propagation Center International” |
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Many of his books have been translated into the many different languages: Russian, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Bangladeshi, French, Amharic, Chinese, Japanese, Mayalam, Indonesian,, Zulu , Afrikaans, Dutch, Norwegian amongst others. Sheikh Deedat delivered thousands of lectures, which took him to most of the continents of the world, he had also debated with a number of Christian leaders, the first major debate was held in Royal Hall in London in |
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www.ipci.com, he hoped that IPCI will carry on his work in dawa and train what he called “more better Deedats” In 1996, Sheikh Deedat suffered a storke “lock in syndrome” that left him bed-ridden until his departude from this world to the on Monday August 8, 2005. May Allah, the Merciful, the Merci-giving shower Sheikh Deedat with his immense Mercy, and may Allah reward him generously for his deeds, ameen. |
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when a party will be in Paradise and a party in the blazing Fire (Hell) . |
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And thus We have revealed to you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم) ) the Qur’ân in Arabic that you may warn the Mother of the Towns (Makkah) and all around it, and warn (them) of the Day of Assembling of which there is no doubt: |
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