Famed S African Muslim scholar dies

jonny_k

Such a loss. Ahmad Deedat was a great man, and for all I know, had he known of us, he'd probably sympathize. Wasn't he Qur'an-only too?

Khi- Salam. I have many of his speeches on CD. One of that is Al-Quran, the Ultimate miracle, regarding code-19. However Ahmed Deedat was NOT a Quran Aloner. He believed in hadith and followed them as can be seen from his beard and hat. He also uttered the shaadah including Muhammad and he emphasized in one of his speeches that Muhammad was the greatest man ever and always used 'sallu 'ala' after mentioning his name. So he was definitely NOT a Quran Aloner. GOD Bless!

zenje

Peace,

He was associated with this organisation - International Islamic Propagation Center ( http//www.the-quran.org/ click on chairman ). I had an opportunity to discuss with one of the members on Paltalk sometime ago, and saw some of their videos, I noticed that they would debate against sunnis etc, and claim to follow quran only.

(IIPC) was started over seventeen years ago by Brother Mohammad Shaikh. The purpose of this center is the study and propagation of AL-QURAN throughout the world, without sectarian, political, historical, scholarly or any other bias and affiliation. The Study is done with the sole trust on the author of Al-Kitab (The Book), Allah and belief that only He can guide to the straight path.

For more on Ahmed Deedat and his organization (IPCI) click here - http//www.ahmed-deedat.co.za/frameset.asp

shamsul-arefin

I also saw few debates of him..and I was amazed and cheered when I was a sunni...but now I get another picture. Though he had so much of so called knowledge but he never returned to God alone. By definition he was a sectarian and a famous one. He was just eloquent with his words and went on proving other religions wrong. But whos gonna prove his religion wrong ? did he ever thought abt it after knowing RK's theory. Definitely he knew about God alone concept and knew the Quranic instructions on not to believe in any other hadith. But he did. What was the point ? Was he unable to break the shakle of tradition in the face of Fame and popularity ?

I donno..only God knows best....but personally I dont give him much credit. He just boosted the sectarian system....

Peace

mmkhan

Salaamun Alaikum,
dear brothers and sisters in Islam,

Me and my friend personally met him in Abu Dhabi. But when I was supposed to ask him about Quran-Alone thing (this was the only purpose we met him for, I was the beginner in Quran-Alone), some converted white skin people came to him and wanted to learn some suras from him.

Deedat asked us to question anything that we wanted to ask with his son. And he said that his son is capable to answer any of our questions. And he left with those people who wanted to learn suras from him.

We (me, my friend and Deedat's son) had a discussion for few minutes then I asked whether to follow Hadith or AlQuraan is enough. He put rinckles on his nose and said slowly, AlQuraan is more than enough and Allah has mentioned everything in details in AlQuraan. So, no use of following anything else except AlQuraan.

I was very happy to hear that because it was in my favor but my friend said, this fellow does not know anything. We will ask Deedat again. But we could not able to meet him again.

And not only this, Deedat's son was very happy to meet me and he said I could not resist myself by giving you this AlQuraan (Yousuf Ali's translation, that was the only copy that they have, which Deedat use always on his speeches) and he gifted me that copy of AlQuraan + a video tape as gift.

And I never found any hadith quoted by Deedat in any of his video tapes or books. This is also an enough proof to understand what he was.

But unfortunately, his diciples like Zaker Naik or Imran, etc... are not like him. I think Deedat just guide his diciples towards AlQuraan, but he never explain about Quran-Alone thing.

May Allah forgive Ahmed Deedat and may his soul rest in peace.

Regards,

MMKhan

shamsul-arefin