The Divine Reality Quotes

“God created the heavens and the Earth for a true purpose: to reward each soul according to its deeds. They will not be wronged.”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam & the Mirage of Atheism

“Therefore, the search for truth was a means of trying to be more sincere with my own existence, as I would be seeking to establish the truth of this life and my place within it. For me, holding on to the sceptical view of the truth, which argues that there is no truth, was self-defeating. This is because the concept that there is no truth is actually a claim itself, so how could I claim that scepticism is true but everything else is not? This is the inconsistency of the sceptical view; a sceptic would claim the truth of scepticism but would deny all other truths. Consequently, no matter what position I held, I still had to accept a truth.”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam & the Mirage of Atheism

“This one prostration which you deem too exacting liberates you from a thousand prostrations.”[593]”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism

“The key reason the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was able to directly influence such tolerant and compassionate societies was because affirming the Oneness of God, pleasing and worshipping Him, was the spiritual and moral basis of his life and the lives of those who loved and followed him. This provided timeless, objective moral grounding to achieve what the 18th century economist Adam Smith claimed was the first nation: “…under which the world enjoyed that degree of tranquillity which the cultivation of the sciences requires….”[549]”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism

“Be mindful of God, you will find Him before you. Get to know God in prosperity and He will know you in adversity. Know that what has passed you by was not going to befall you; and that what has befallen you was not going to pass you by. And know that victory comes with patience, relief with affliction, and ease with hardship.”[”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism

“As evolutionary biologist Scott C. Todd said, “the scientist, as an individual, is free to embrace a reality that transcends naturalism”[”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism

“Philosophical naturalism cannot adequately explain the hard problem of consciousness (see Chapter 7), the finitude and dependency of the universe (see Chapters 5 and 6), the fine-tuning of the laws and the order in the universe (see Chapter 8), the existence of objective morals (see Chapter 9) and much more.”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism

“The popularisation of atheist publications and social media, coupled with aggressive and fervent activism, has created an environment of intellectual challenge and peer pressure. A Muslim on campus who is not equipped with the adequate spiritual, intellectual and theological tools to address these challenges can be misguided onto the irrational path of denying the Divine.”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism

“Science is the human endeavour to understand how the physical world works.”
― Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism