"I have sometimes orthodox Christians coming along. There was one young man who was a Roman Catholic. I said, look, I’d like to present you with this Qur’an. He jerked back as if I was offering some fire [for him] to hold on to. He said no, he can’t have that. I said, look, read it man, and see. It took me a long time to persuade him to take the book and after reading it he was a changed man. He didn’t expect what he was seeing. Another elderly gentleman, we presented him with a Qur’an, this Holy Book, and after some time I phoned him up, “how is your progress?” He said, “no, I haven’t read it yet.” Again, another time, he says, “I haven’t had time to go to it yet.” Three or four times I phoned the man, then he says, “Look man, I’ve been reading it all along, you know, I can’t help agreeing with the book and I’m too old to change now.” This is the problem, “I’m too old to change,” but he’s reading it all along and he can’t help agreeing with every principle that is there. If you, without prejudiced minds, open the book, you see what it does to you, it must create a change."
- Ahmed Deedat