Hamza Tzortzis proves with rationale and intellect that Allah exists! Hamza Tzortzis,a British citizen and revert coming from Greek origin, has really found an Undefeatable Argument proving Allah’s existence while debating champions of atheism like Professor Laurence Krauss, Den Barker, Professor Parvez Hoodbhoy of Pakistan in academic debates at different universities and centres across the globe. He says never in his debating career atheists have responded with an undercutting argument to defeat with rationale and logic his argument constructed to prove Allah’s existence. He takes support of simple philosophies and basic knowledge of cosmology to explain his arguments.
In his opening argument, he says the Qur’ān itself questions human beings–“Do they not reflect?” in versesinviting them to ponder and think about the creation and things visible to them. In his first step, he says the universe had a beginning. We don’t have an infinite history of past events in the universe. There was an instance where the universe began to exist.
Infinite is a mathematical idea; it doesn’t exist in the real world. Hence everything in the real world is finite. As such the past history of events in the universe is not infinite. It is finite and it had a beginning and hence it will also have an end. We also know today scientists believe the universe got created by Big Bang – a theory in which Time, Space, Energy and Matter were created. There must be a cause to such an effect.
Nothing in this universe comes out of nothing. Every effect has a cause. To reject Stephen Hawking’s claim that something can come out of nothing and self-creation is possible, in his book Stephen talks about the universe coming from nothing – a quantum vacuum. But again vacuum isn’t either nothing. We know quantum vacuum is not nothing; it consists of waves of fluctuating energy and it is something. Step one:the universe didn’t come out of nothing; it had a cause.
In step two Tzortzis proves what is this cause and how exactly it is based on conceptual analysis. We discussed above that time, space, matter and energy were created during the creation of the universe. The cause that created time must not be bound by time. It must be atemporal, meaning it is not bound by the laws of time which exist in this universe as it created time. Hence the cause must neither be having any beginning nor any end. Hence the cause must be uncaused, it must not have come into existence with any cause. So, the cause is uncreated. If we keep giving causes to the cause of the universe, it will bring us to infinity regress and we will never reach a point where we would be able to say that so and so is the cause of the universe.
For example, Mother universe created this baby universe in which we are but then again who created that mother universe. This is called infinite regress. Also, infinity doesn’t exist. We know for an effect to happen there must not be infinite regress because then the effect would have never happened but we see the universe is an effect and a reality. Hence, we proved that the cause is uncaused and uncreated or eternal.
The cause created time, space and matter hence the cause must not be bound by time, space and matter. Hence it must be outside of this universe and must be immaterial and incomparable. It created laws in the universe. So, the cause is the law giver and the law giving indicates that cause is intelligent. It must be very powerful as it created such a massive universe. To conclude the cause is uncaused or uncreated, it doesn’t have an end, it’s immaterial, incomparable and unique. It’s intelligent and very powerful. This is the step two.
In step three, we will prove the cause is one and has a personality or some characteristics. For this we will use Occam Razor principle. Occam Razor principle in philosophy is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. “The simplest explanation is usually the best one” and “Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.” In this case, while conceptually analysing the number of causes, we assume the cause to be fewest and to be one as two, three or ten will multiply entities beyond necessity and will create more questions than answers. For instance, how can two uncreated causes or gods can co-eternally exist together for eternity?Won’t they disagree and fight with each other at some point? As we see the universe runs on natural laws and everything is designed and there is no contradiction in its order. Also, if two or three causes or gods are uncreated, the statement will become illogical and will have a contradiction in itself. Hence by using Occam Razor principle, we conclude that cause is one.
Also,the universe began to exist which means cause chose it to come into existence at a particular time. It means the cause chose to bring it into existence. Choice indicates a will and a will indicates a personality. Hence the one cause is having a personality or some characteristics. This also indicates it has a relationship with the universe and us who are inside it. Let’s keep this all in step three.
In the above three steps, we conclude that the cause is one, uncreated, eternal, very powerful, intelligent and having characteristics or personality. It is unique or incomparable and immaterial.
Now we look into the 112th chapter of the Qur’ān named Surah Ikhlas. It says:“Say, He is Allah the one and only. The everlasting and eternal. He begets not, nor was he begotten. And there is no one like unto him, He is unique and incomparable.”
So, God, we proved above with rationale and intellect and through observing realities of the universe, is completely aligned with the Qur’ānic God “Allah”. Mr Tzortzis says we didn’t force or impose our beliefs of Qur’ānic God to prove Allah’s existence. Neither we jumped to conclusions creating gaps in between. We used our intellect to prove attributes of Allah based on conceptual analysis with proper logic and rationality which we understand by observing the realities and concepts of the universe.
Now, what about the scripture which got aligned itself to Allah’s attributes above? Is it from outside of the universe and is divine or it just co-incidentally got aligned. The Qur’ān to be from outside of the universe must have a signpost which makes it sure that it has come from outside of the universe and is not from within the universe. In the universe, everything is following a natural order or everything is following natural laws or phenomena and no laws have contradicted ever.
In other words, impossibilities have never happened. Does the Qur’ān break this natural order? Has impossible happened? Yes! The Qur’ān itself challenges:“And if you are in doubt as to which We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like it, and call on your helper, besides Allah, if you are truthful.”(Surah 2:23). This is called inimitability of the Qur’ān; both Muslim and Non-Muslim Orientalists have witnessed to it. If we exhaust all the letters of the Arabic language, we cannot create a verse like it. So, theQur’ān is really from Devine and outside of this universe. Hence, we proved Allah exists.
Do we need to be a cosmologist or a philosopher to prove it to our atheist friend. No! Says Hamza Tzortzis, any layman or educated Muslim, on studying his above arguments, can prove this. He says he never came across an atheist that gave an undercutting defeat to his argument and believes never could.
The following YouTube links of Hamza Tzortzis may be of interest on the subject:
https://youtu.be/uSwJuOPG4FI (Hamza Tzortzis vs Professor Lawrenss Krauss)
https://youtu.be/1rOn4vYwa0w (Hamza Tzortzis Vs Dan Barker)
[The writer, based in Mumbai, is B.E in Mechanical Engineering and writes for Islamic magazines.]