Cemal Ersen – The Pen Magazine

ISSUE 24 Psychology

The illness of intellectual arrogance

Cemal Ersen24/10/201508/11/2016

Intellectual arrogance disease may lead people who are more or less educated to oppose to the great scholars of Islam, and may lead them to refuse their ideas. What common...

ISSUE 23

Repentance from secret sins of the heart

Cemal Ersen17/08/201508/11/2016

We must recognize the sins of our hearts -which are, in fact, the cause for many other sins- and repent to our Lord in sincerity. When repentance and asking for...

Issue 22 LEAD ARTICLE

The work that destroys the cornerstone of irreligion

Cemal Ersen17/05/201308/11/2016

As a work on the philosophy of naturalism’s pitfalls and fallacies, the Treatise on Nature of Imam Nursi is very effective in revealing the inner workings of this intellectually poisonous...

Articles Issue 15 Issue 22

Imam Said Nursi’s Service to Faith

Cemal Ersen14/09/201214/10/2016

Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi gave tremendous service to the people of Turkey by protecting their faith under the harsh conditions of the former autocratic nationalist secular Republic of Turkey, handing...

Allah Hereafter

A story and what it refers to

Cemal Ersen24/02/201214/10/2014

One method we use to convince people in daily life is to present examples. Starting a sentence “Let me give you an example,” we see that a good example can...

Issue 11 PROPHET MUHAMMAD

Blessed Journey from Earth to Heavens: Miraj

Cemal Ersen15/08/201131/03/2022

The miracle of Miraj happened on the 27th night of the month of Rajab, a year and a half before hijrah (migration) when RasulAllah (the Apostle of Allah) was in...

Issue 10 PROPHET MUHAMMAD

References to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) from today’s Bible

Cemal Ersen15/06/201109/11/2016

The arrival of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was an important event which was reported and referred in all holy books centuries ago and this is very natural, because; since these holy...

Allah DESTINY Issue 9

Why does Allah (SWT) create the evils?

Cemal Ersen15/05/201117/10/2011

Evil means “not good, bad and harmful thing”. As understood from the verse “Allah is the Creator of all things (An’am 102),” the One who creates the evil and good...

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Issue 6 PROPHET MUHAMMAD Prophets

The Greatest Person in World History

Cemal Ersen29/08/201015/04/2015

We will share the findings of a western non-Muslim scientist, Michael Hart, about our Prophet (PBUH) in this article. Ustad Bediuzzaman says; “Virtue is what even his enemies confirm” Now,...

Hereafter Issue 5

The Eternal Fruits of The Love for The Sake Of Allah

Cemal Ersen11/03/201008/03/2012

Human beings love many things such as first his self and relatives in the world. The most important duty of man is to love the world and creatures in 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.

As of 2022 The Pen started to publish online-only contents.

The Pen Magazine is inspired by the Risale-i Nur Corpus written by Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi who is one of the most effective scholars of the modern age, and who addresses the minds, the hearts, and the souls of people in a convincing manner in his books.