Ahmed Deedat was a Muslim thinker, author, and orator on comparative religion from South Africa. He was born in India in 1918 and moved to South Africa in 1927.
He taught himself English and studied various religions, especially Christianity and Islam and became famous for his public debates with Christian missionaries and evangelists, as well as his books and lectures on Islam and the Bible.
He founded the Islamic Propagation Centre International in Durban, South Africa, to train Muslims in spreading the message of Islam.
Ahmed passed away in 2005 after suffering a stroke
“ There is no difficulty in our agreeing that in the languages of the world, every nation has given a distinctive name to God. Most of these names are attributive names, describing some aspect of God. But the proper name for God Almighty in the Semitic languages, i.e. in the mother-tongues of Moses, Jesus and Muhummed (Peace be upon them all) is ALLAH! This name is still extant in the Christian Bible in every language of the world. The Christians are boasting that they have translated their Bible into over fifteen hundred languages, more specially the translation of the New Testament. In every Gospel that I have scrutnised in the various languages I find the word "Allah" preserved - English or Afrikaanz, Zulu or Swahili. Why not check up in your own dialect to prove me wrong. I would love to hear from you. If what I claim is Gospel Truth, then how is it that the whole Christian world of over 1 200 000 000 people have not been aware of it. This is what effective programming or brain-washing can do. They have been trained NOT to see the obvious. Did not Jesus bewail: "Seeing, they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." (Matthew 13:13). “