March 2012 – The Pen Magazine

FAMILY HUMAN RELATIONS

A Small Paradise: Family Life-1

The Pen31/03/201203/05/2014

“A small world and a small paradise of every person is his home (family),” says Imam Nursi. It is only possible to start a paradise-like family life with the spiritual...

Youth

How to spend youth?

The Pen31/03/201209/04/2012

The fact that the summers turn into the winters and the days turn into the nights as divine routines show that all things are temporary and they will leave the...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF

Is there fanaticism in Islam?

A. Said GUL30/03/201221/11/2016

In a conversation, Professor Fuat Sezgin who is a researcher on the history of the Islamic Sciences said that “if Islam would not respect the science, scientific developments would be...

WORSHIP Youth

Looking at Haram (forbidden) things

The Pen30/03/201203/06/2014

The great spiritual people, that is, the muttaqin as an expression of the Qur’an, shun away from the forbidden, illicit things as they avoid from the snakes or scorpions. They...

Health&Halal ONLINE ARTICLES

Benefits of illness

Yunus Emre Pehlivan30/03/201221/11/2016

“[Those] Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return.” (Baqara, 2:156) Man easily gets sick. It is really unbearable. You have headache...

WORSHIP

TV, sins, and prayers

The Pen30/03/201223/03/2015

Question: What is the situation of the Muslims who perform the prayers, but they watch TV in their dialy life, too. Are their prayers accepted? Because there are many sins...

ISLAMIC WORLD OPINION

The Arab Spring and its repercussions on Turkey

The Pen27/03/201221/11/2016

H. Ümit DIKKER Relations between the Arab peoples of the Middle East and the people of Turkey have a long history. The historic and geographic association between us have led...

HUMAN RELATIONS

The rivalry between Muslims

The Pen26/03/201202/04/2012

And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided. (Al-Imran, 3:103) Europe has a history full of bloodshed because of the wars between religions,...

MISCELLANEOUS Prophets

The worms formed in Prophet Job’s wounds

The Pen26/03/201226/03/2012

Is it true that worms formed in Prophet Job’s wounds? Some Hodjas (scholar) claim that how Allah permits and puts His Messenger in such a miserable situation? Such a trouble...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF

Islam, Reform and Reformists

A. Said GUL23/03/201221/11/2016

In the last century, with the increase in the reformist and modernist trends in the Islamic world, imitating of the western world raised. The followers of these trends started increasingly...

THE PEN MAGAZINE

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As of 2014 it started to be published biannually. Every print issue of The Pen has covered and shed light into the topics which are of great importance for the believers such as the existence and oneness of Allah (swt), the proofs of the existence of Hereafter, the mission of prophethood, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his way of life (Sunnah), and the reasons behind the creation of man and the test of life.

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