The Islamic Center for Islamic Preaching in Durban, South Africa, was awarded the King Faisal Prize for his efforts in the service of Islam in 1986.
He was born in South Africa in 1927 to join his father. His father worked in agriculture and his mother worked for nine years. His father then moved to South Africa and lived in Durban and changed his father's direction of agricultural work. And the work of Tresia and grew up Deedat on the approach of Ahl al-Sunnah and Jama'a since the age of nails, has joined the Islamic Center in Durban to learn the Koran and its sciences and the provisions of Islamic law. He began his studies at the age of ten, and in 1934 completed Deedat sixth stage primary,
And then decided to work to help his father worked in a shop selling salt and moved to work in a furniture factory and spent twelve years and escalated the ladder of the job in this factory of a driver and then a vendor and then a manager of the factory and during that the Sheikh joined the Royal College as it was called at that time, Mathematics and business administration, he married Ahmed Deedat and had two sons and a daughter
