Issue 4 – The Pen Magazine

FAMILY Issue 4

Women and Family in Risala-i Nur

Mehlika Yağmur15/08/201123/03/2012

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi established a spiritual university in Anatolia and in order to enroll at this university he demanded four essences which are impotence (ajz), poorness (faqr), compassion (shafqah), and...

EDITOR Issue 4

Editor: Islamic World Turns to Discover Themselves

A.Cihangir İşbilir30/12/200923/09/2011

In the twentieth century the Islamic world witnessed great changes and transformations as well as shocking tension. The Islamic world, composed of the Ottoman Empire as well as the countries...

INTERVIEW Issue 4 News&Events

We are one nation!

Feride Karahan30/12/200905/11/2015

Interviews from Youth Gathering When the calendar shows 10th August 2009, the story starts with enormous excitement. The excitement of embracing each other from all over the world, the excitement...

INTERVIEW Issue 4 PROPHET MUHAMMAD Prophets

Our Prophet (PBUH) is the “Best Example”

Ömer Erem30/12/200930/11/2015

Interviews How should we interpret the importance that our Prophet (PBUH) gave to knowledge? The beauty, perfection, wisdom and thoroughness of everything relies on its relation to knowledge. The futility...

Articles EDUCATION Issue 4

An Islamic University Project: Madrassat-uz Zahra

İdris Tüzün30/12/200914/10/2016

A piece of news that Ustad Bediuzzaman read in a newspaper in 1898, when he was a guest in the house the Governor of Province Van, was a milestone in...

INTERVIEW Issue 4

Nursi’s Theological and Spiritual Worldview

Dr. Farid Shahran30/12/200930/03/2011

QURAN AS THE ABSOLUTE SOURCE OF RELIGION One of the fundamental reasons which urged Nursi to expound his ideas in Risale-i Nur is his the sudden realization of the greatness...

Issue 4

The Art of Disciplining the Evil Commanding Soul

Said Yavuz30/12/200901/04/2011

An individual bears the responsibility of faith and good deeds in this worldly life. But then, there is the evil-commanding soul, which will prevent him from fulfilling his obligations and...

Issue 4 OPINION

Islam’s transition to the future

Ahmad Azam Abdulrahman30/12/200902/05/2011

After the passing away of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), the seed of Islam was already flourishing in most of the Arab world through the untiring and divinely-inspired efforts of the...

Issue 4

Then Well-Off But Now Poor Muslim

Muhlis Körpe30/12/200930/03/2011

Muslims founded many great states even empires during history and ruled over continents. They reached an economically high level. They have receded and become poor for the past few centuries....

Issue 4

The Inconsistency of Expression and Action Between Tradition and Belief

Metin Said Serdengeçti30/12/200930/03/2011

Thank Allah for being a citizen of a Muslim country where 99 per cent of people are Muslim according to statistical data. This is worth being grateful for and a...

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.