2011 – Page 4 – The Pen Magazine

Hajj WORSHIP

What is Hajj?

The Pen02/11/201119/05/2021

Hajj literally means “head for, visit, constantly go and visit an important and honorable place.” As an Islamic term hajj means the worship done in the Dhul-Hijjah (month) of pilgrimage...

News&Events

Prayers and Fatiha for Turkey Earthquake Victims

The Pen30/10/201120/11/2011

ISLAMABAD - Khubaib Foundation, the local philanthropic organization and Pakistan based country partner of the Turkish Insani Haq-o-Hurriyat (IHH) on Tuesday arranged for Quran recitation and congregational prayers in its...

ONLINE ARTICLES

The Earth rests on a bull and a fish?

Yunus Emre Pehlivan24/10/201101/11/2011

Upon the fall of Ottoman State and the scientific developments in the west, some western scholars started criticizing Islam. They worked hard and found the so called untrue or illogical...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF

An Attempt of Reinterpretation of Islam for Modern Age

Salahaddin Özel19/10/201112/03/2021

When the Cold War ended, a problem that the Western Bloc needed to handle with left behind: Fighting Muslim groups that were established and used against soviets as proxies during...

EDITOR

Writing from right to left

A.Cihangir İşbilir19/10/201114/10/2014

Italian author Umberto Eco who was born in 1932 says in his book The Confessions of a Young Novelist that he had answered the question “How did you write your...

News&Events

Conference on Halal and Healthy Products

The Pen17/10/201119/10/2011

The 4th International Conference on Halal and Healthy Products was held on October 13-14th 2011, in Istanbul. The organizer of the conference, GIMDES (Association for the Inspection and Certification of Food...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Patience in Three Ways…

Emre Karahan10/10/201124/10/2011

There are times when we feel ourselves weak, helpless and desperate. It happens for a reason. Sometimes our loved ones pass away, sometimes we lose our health. In one way...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Two Sides of Ego… [Ana]

Feride Karahan09/10/201124/10/2011

Egoism literally means excessive concern for oneself with or without exaggerated feelings of self-importance or the doctrine that individual self-interest is actual motive of all conscious action.[1] I don’t know...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Ottoman Turkish

Yunus Emre Pehlivan09/10/201103/06/2014

Many people, including the Turkish, think that Ottoman Turkish is different from today’s Turkish language. The reason behind this is that Ottoman Turkish is written with Arabic letters, which I...

ONLINE ARTICLES

The Life and Belief

Salahaddin Özel03/10/201127/04/2014

Am I suggesting that the life of a nonbeliever must be one of dreary desperation without cause for hope or happiness? Not indeed. I think not only life of nonbelievers...

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