Al-Qalam 
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear two famous defenders of Islam, Mohammed Hijab and Hamza Tzortzis, who have made their mark on the Muslim world, writes an Al-Qalam Reporter.
Two renowned dawah figures from the UK – Mohammed Hijab and Hamza Tzortzis – will be in Durban tomorrow (Saturday) for a public lecture to address some of the burning issues that threaten the Islamic way of life today namely “Liberalism, Feminism and LGBTQ+”.
Commenting on the invitation of the scholars to South Africa, Mohammed Khan of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI) told Al-Qalam: “These two scholars, in my view, defend Islam on an academic platform and their skill sets is unique in the world to take on Liberalism, to take on LGBT… to give the Islamic standpoint to it and to take on secularism. You just have to watch Mohammed Hijab’s debate (on YouTube) with the Islamophobe David Wood, to appreciate the quality of his discourse with him.”
The free public event will be held at the Al Ansaar Hall from 6pm to 8.30pm. There will be an interactive question and answer session. The two young and dynamic intellectuals are from the Sapience Institute, and they are guests of Markaz Manār Al-Fikr whose Ameer is Moulana Uwais Dockrat of Pretoria.
Both men are fierce public debaters and defenders of Islam with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media platforms. Mohammed Hijab is a Philosopher of Religion and the co-founder of Sapience Institute. His debates and discussions representing the Islamic viewpoint philosophically, politically, and theologically are some of the most viewed and engaged in the world today. His formal qualifications include the following subjects, Quran; Hadith; Fiqh; Usul and Aqaida.
Hamza Tzortzis is regarded as a notable international public speaker, writer, and researcher on Islam, philosophy, and politics, co-founder, and CEO of the Sapience Institute, He is the author of “The Divine Reality: God, Islam, and the Mirage of Atheism.”
Hamza has studied Islamic thought and theology under qualified scholars. He has delivered workshops, courses and an accredited diploma course on topics related to Islamic thought and philosophy.
Moulana Ismail Moosa, the Comparative Religion Training Facilitator at the IPCI said the Durban community was fortunate to have two famous Muslim personalities visiting our shores. They are notable ulama, duats, academics, public debaters and defenders of Islam.
“To put things into perspective, in the first decade of the 21st century, the world was watching as – what is known as the new age atheism – was spreading and taking over country after country and Christianity had basically succumbed to it and many scholars at the time felt that Islam was going to suffer the same fate and Allah (Subhana wat’aala), had chosen many scholars from around the world to stand up to respond to the atheistic objections, and two of these Ulama, Mohammed Hijab and Hamza Tzortzis, were from among those great Islamic scholars who basically changed the whole tide of the discourse in the sense that after the impact of their writing, their debating, they equipping young scholars in how to defend Islam, the landscape has changed to an extent where now the Islamic worldview is seen objectively in the world to be the strongest worldview.
“And this is down to a lot of the contributions they made in that they took on the leading atheists of the time, for example the famous and historic debate that Hamza Tzortzis had with one of the leading scientists of the world, Lawrence Krauss, who rationally proved that no matter what science does it can never undermine truth of Islam – that was a truly historic debate.
“And Mohammed Hijab defended Islam and Nabi (SAW) honour in an extremely famous debate with David Wood who used to curse and revile the Prophet (SAW) and that video has about 4-million views on Y-Tube, so these are extremely prolific and extremely famous people but at the same time they are on the ground, they are with the people, he is not your typical scholar who is into his books the whole day.”
