Muhammed Zakir Çetin – The Pen Magazine

Issue 33

The straight path – As-Siraatu’l-Mustaqeem

Muhammed Zakir Çetin21/09/202021/09/2020

The evidences and proofs for the prophethood of our Prophet (asw) are countless. Explaining all of them is neither within our limits nor an issue to be explained in this...

Issue 29

How to protect women’s rights?

Muhammed Zakir Çetin24/05/2018

“Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one [men] over the other [women] and what they [men] spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So...

Issue 28

You cannot achieve your goal by wrong means

Muhammed Zakir Çetin25/12/201724/05/2018

Islam will last for eternity, for it comes from the Qur’an which is called the eternal word. It is only possible to free ourselves as nation from the ugly oppression...

Issue 27

Intention

Muhammed Zakir Çetin16/06/201719/11/2018

Our Prophet said, “The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions.” 1 Imam Bediuzzaman explained the matter of intention as follows: “This matter of intention is the result of my...

Allah Issue 26

Head to head with a Darwinian

Muhammed Zakir Çetin19/11/201619/11/2018

We were in a program in Sav madrasa in Isparta. One evening an elder brother, Hafiz Bekir, called me and said, “I have an atheist nephew. He is a teacher,...

FAMILY ISSUE 23

Rights of the Wife over Husband

Muhammed Zakir Çetin29/05/201530/11/2015

Husband must be friendly, kind, generous and nice to his wife. First of all, I believe we must know that the law of the family is for ensuring the happiness...

HISTORY&CULTURE ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 18

Nationalism In the light of Risale-i Nur

Muhammed Zakir Çetin03/05/201308/11/2016

Nationalism and ethnic conflicts is one of the most grieving agonies that the Islamic world is experiencing. The position of Islam on the issue needs to be highlighted and stressed...

Issue 17 RELIGION & BELIEF Sunnah

The Truth about Mediation in Islam

Muhammed Zakir Çetin25/03/201308/11/2016

By Zakir Cetin Mediation and mentioning the names of blessed people, things and places while praying to Allah (SWT) has been dealt with in many verses and hadiths. We will...

Issue 15 PILLARS OF FAITH Psychology

The Wisdom Behind Calamities

Muhammed Zakir Çetin25/07/201214/10/2014

Disasters are facts of life and they are not meaningless. If we try to read the messages that they convey to us, we may receive the wisdom behind them. وَاتَّقُواْ...

Issue 14 SOCIETY WORSHIP

The Spiritual Jihad

Muhammed Zakir Çetin04/05/201223/03/2015

While in the past, under certain conditions, Muslims were ordered to engage in jihad against their enemies as a defence, in today’s world of chaos, uncertainty and lack of final...

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.