Metin Ucar – The Pen Magazine

Issue 34

Demanding the impossible

Metin Ucar08/01/202127/01/2021

How fragile and weak we have become, are we aware? We used to say that when you have faith, there is possibility. Now there are all sorts of possibilities, but...

Issue 33

Aynayn and worldliness

Metin Ucar21/09/202021/09/2020

It was Shawwal 7th 625. Fifty archers were placed on a hill on Jabal Aynayn. And they were ordered: "Don't ever leave your position under any circumstances!" However, the majority...

From the latest issue Issue 31

A Proposal of An Alternative Student Education Programme

Metin Ucar22/07/201918/09/2019

How should the instruction and education of the foundations and associations that have university students or high school students in their dormitories be like? Succeeding at school subjects, knowing one’s...

EDITOR Issue 26

“I cannot live without freedom!”

Metin Ucar19/11/201622/03/2017

“You are governed as you deserve” says the Prophet (pbuh). Since the night of July 15th 2016, 78 million people living in Turkey have declared all together once more that...

Allah DESTINY Issue 17 PILLARS OF FAITH

The Grace of Allah

Metin Ucar12/03/201327/05/2014

Sometimes man considers himself the real doer of his actions under the effect of his delusions about himself. By that means he becomes alienated from the grace and mercy of...

HISTORY&CULTURE ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 15

Consolidating the Consultation Culture and Civil Societies

Metin Ucar15/08/201221/11/2016

Consultation and counsel seem to offer possible solutions for certain monolithic and authoritarian leanings in the Islamic world. The initiatives to organize mechanisms to provide such consultation within ummah should...

Articles Issue 22

Husrev Efendi in Said Nursi’s perspective

Metin Ucar17/02/201214/10/2016

The portrayal of Ahmed Husrev Altinbasak in Said Nursi's treatises shows his significant place in the Risale-i Nur movement. Ahmed Husrev Efendi was born in AH 1315 / AD 1899...

DIVINE BOOKS Issue 8

The Qissas In The Qur’an and The Meaning Which They Give Into Life

Metin Ucar01/12/201012/04/2011

Al-qissa is the news about the historical figures and events in the Qur’an and it is the knowledge of all these news included in the Qur’an. In the dictionary it...

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 is published biannually. Every print issue of The Pen covers and sheds 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. The Pen 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.