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u/ohamid345 · 26 pointsr/islam

Consider reading:

The Divine Reality

Islam and the Destiny of Man

Being Muslim: A Practical Guide is useful for being a practicing Muslim.

Here is a website to check out, Yaqeen Institute which is useful regarding doubts.

As it pertains to the existence of God, the Divine Reality devotes many pages to it and the following might also be of use:

Arguing God from Being (Video)

How to Rationally Find God? (Video)

The Rationality of Believing in God Part 1

The Rationality of Believing in God Part 2

The Case for Allah’s Existence in the Quran and Sunnah

u/AndTheEgyptianSmiled · 10 pointsr/islam

He completed a book tour for this highly reviewed book he authored: https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Reality-Islam-Mirage-Atheism/dp/0996545387/

You can find more here: https://www.facebook.com/HamzaAndreasTzortzis/

u/Elliot_Loudermilk · 9 pointsr/islam

> Hamza starts from the personal story of his own journey to Islam. He delves the history of atheism and new atheism at first and discusses the incompleteness and irrationality of atheistic worldview. The most fascinating is that the book deals with a lot of argument for the existence of God and irrationality of atheism from natural theology but maintains an Islamic flavor from authentic sources and highlights the notable works of classical Islamic scholars and theologians related to these arguments . The book reflects not only an intellectual defence but a spiritual one. Hamza develops a structured case for the reliability of Quran as a Divine book based on epistemic testimony and inference to the best explanation of linguistic inimitability of Quran. He presents a cumulative and persuasive case for Islam in both intellectual and spiritual perspective.
> I think the effort will be a millstone in contemporary Islamic philosophy and apologetics.
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u/LIGHTNlNG · 6 pointsr/islam

According to /u/andtheegyptiansmiled:

> He completed a book tour for this highly reviewed book he authored: https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Reality-Islam-Mirage-Atheism/dp/0996545387/
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> You can find more here: https://www.facebook.com/HamzaAndreasTzortzis/

He also seems to be active with iERA right now.

u/Comrox · 5 pointsr/islam

> What I'm asking is more for people who have genuine philosophical doubts about the very roots of Islam and religion in general.

Get your friend or have them get God, Islam & the Skeptic Mind: A Study on Faith, Science, Religious Diversity, Ethics and Evil. It's available on Amazon.

I also came across The Divine Reality: God, Islam & The Mirage Of Atheism on Amazon but haven't read it myself (just saw it pop up on recommended).

u/Byzantium · 5 pointsr/exmuslim

>Muslims have been debunking atheist arguments for over a millennium. I would recommend reading Hamza Tzortzis's "The Divine Reality: God, Islam & The Mirage Of Atheism". The first chapter is available for free on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Reality-Islam-Mirage-Atheism/dp/0996545387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491918002&sr=8-1&keywords=hamza+tzortzis

>There is also plenty of material that is available online for free as well by Muslim authors, they use the standard arguments (i.e. Teleological, Kalam, Contingency). https://asadullahali.com/2015/08/16/the-rationality-of-believing-in-god-without-evidence-part-1/

>Tzortzis's book takes you from atheism to Islam, succinctly.

u/ohamid234 · 3 pointsr/exmuslim

You sound like a Deist, know that from Deism to Islam is not that far off. I would recommend reading Hamza Tzortzis's book: The Divine Reality: God, Islam & The Mirage Of Atheism. It takes you from atheism to Islam, succintly.

u/humzak03 · 2 pointsr/exmuslim

For your case I recommend a great book. It’s called “the divine reality” by Hamza Tzortis. It selves into the philosophy of existence, purpose, and god, not only from an Islamic POV but from an atheist POV as well. It’s a very good read as well. Highly recommend reading it.
https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Reality-Islam-Mirage-Atheism/dp/0996545387

u/Yosaerys · 2 pointsr/DebateReligion

>Of course. I try to keep an open mind and I appreciate all recommendations.

I can't stress this enough, read this book if you're able to and I hope it will benefit you the same way it did for me [The Divine Reality] (https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Reality-Islam-Mirage-Atheism/dp/0996545387)

>The descriptions of Heaven and Hell

What's weird about this? Lots of religions have this concept?

>the special privilages of Muhammad

This special privileges are not as big a reward as you think, he also suffered far more than any Muslim. When the Prophet first began preaching the Meccan chiefs promised him gold, rule, women and whatsoever he so desires in return for him dropping Islam, he rejected their proposal.

The Prophet was soo poor that often times there was no food to eat in his house even though he was the leader of the Islamic community and could've made himself very rich had he willed. They aren't that much of a privilege really.

>the focus on how the disbelievers are dumb

You should try to understand the context, God is saying if one sees signs all around him and is blessed with mental faculties of reasoning yet still rejects the truth then such a person is spiritually dumb and blind.

>Abrogation also doesn't make much sense when you consider an omniscient deity - especially when the recitiation is abrogated, but the law is not.

I'm not sure you understand how abrogation works. The reports of abrogation via hadiths from companions of the Prophet and not the Prophet himself are not a good evidence, if you want to be taken seriously then focus on the Quran not the hadith, God promised to protect the Quran not the Hadith. I think you were referencing the hadith about ayat rajm by Umar (r.a)

>I also find it hard to believe that an all-powerful God would give the generally stronger gender the right to physically retailate against the generally weaker gender for "fearing disobedience".

It's not a physical retaliation, just discipline and its very unlikely to happen, if you read the verse you will see that God says to try doing 2 or 3 things before resorting to beating, and any harmful beating is forbidden in Islam.

I think this entire debate is nullified by the fact that the Prophet never beat any of his wives, Muslims are required to follow his example in everything so if any Muslims wants to be like the Prophet they will never beat their wives.

>But, I must also admit I find the ahadith the worse of the two

Don't even begin with the ahadith, they're not transmitted by God and I can't defend them all, they were reported by humans who can and do make mistakes, I can only defend the Quran which I belive to be the entirely preserved word of God with zero alteration or human input.

u/spoiledfatty- · 2 pointsr/Muslim

I respect what you’re doing despite being an atheist. There’s a saying of the Prophet Muhammad peace be him which says

“None of you will believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself." So honestly the greatest thing we possess as Muslims is this religion of ours. Therefore we want to invite others to it. There’s a lot of great contemporary speakers out there who focus on atheism like :

Mohammed Hijab - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHDFNoOk8WOXtHo8DIc8efQ

Abdullah Andalusi

Hamza Tzortzis

Hamza in particular has a book called “ Divine Reality” I would really recommend you give it a read .

The Divine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996545387/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_gU5sDb0ZR486R

If you want, you can dm me and I’ll buy the book for you.