08/04/2013 – The Pen Magazine

“I give help in their hard times to those who say salawat on me”

The Pen08/04/201303/05/2013

While Sufyan al Thawri was performing tawaf (the ceremony of going around the Kaaba during the pilgrimage at Mecca) around the House of Allah he saw a man who was...

A Garden of Truths Issue 17

“Unless the words are spoken properly…”

The Pen08/04/201307/04/2015

Two thousand five hundred years ago, the disciples of Confucius asked him how he would start work and what he would do first if the authority and power was given...

EDUCATION INTERVIEW Issue 17

A Risale-i Nur course in Sudan

The Pen08/04/201308/04/2013

The Sudan Turkish Students Association organized a course under the title of “A Personal Development Course with the perspective of Risale-i Nur” in Khartoum University between June 9, 2012 and...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 17

The Outcry of Rohingya!

The Pen08/04/201331/08/2016

Until 1784, the Rohingya Islamic Sultanate, which was founded just 23 years after the conquest of Istanbul (1476), was ruled by 26 kings. It was then occupied by Burma between...

A Garden of Truths Issue 17

“Give up superiority, greed and showing-off”

The Pen08/04/201307/04/2015

Three friends, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim, set out on a journey together. When a heavy snowstorm started, they took shelter in a rest-house and waited for the...

A Garden of Truths

“Could this state ever collapse?”

The Pen08/04/201314/10/2014

One day, Sultan Selim the Grim said to his Grand Vizier Piri Muhammad Pasha: “Wherever we have gone so far, we have returned with victory by the grace of Allah....

Health&Halal Issue 17

Islamic Food Habits

Mohammad Mazhar Hussaini08/04/201314/10/2014

Although there are some indigenous characteristics in the patterns of consuming food in different Muslim cultures, Islam has laid down some specific and useful codes of conduct for eating which...

DIVINE BOOKS Issue 17 RELIGION & BELIEF

Why has Allah (SWT) sent down more than One Divine Religion?

The Pen08/04/201315/04/2015

Does humankind need more than one religion? Wouldn't one religion be enough? Basically, all divine religions have a consensus on tenets of faith, such as believing in God and the...

THE PEN MAGAZINE

Published since 2007 The Pen is an educational and cultural periodical covering the Islamic faith, worship, the issues of the Islamic world, and the struggle towards the unity of Muslims.

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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