Issue 5 – Page 2 – The Pen Magazine

An Abortive Initiation: A Necessary Engagement

Salahaddin Özel11/03/201021/11/2016

After the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York city, the radical posture adopted by American administrators towards the Muslim world was the beginning of a too tiresome,...

Issue 5 RELIGION & BELIEF

Questions on Miraj

Cemaleddin Şener11/03/201031/03/2022

Question: When and how did Miraj happen? Answer: The miracle of Miraj happened on the 27th night of month of Rajab, half and a year before migration when RasulAllah (the...

Issue 5 OPINION

Searching New Substance of Islamic Movement of the First Post Islamic Rise

Muhammad Faisal Abdul Aziz, MALAYSIA11/03/201002/05/2011

In conscious or not, the fact of the Malays in Malaysia have been through a major transformation towards an era of 70’s which according to Dean of The Faculty of...

Issue 5 PORTRAITS

When a Sun Set Down on Earth

Salahaddin Özel11/03/201030/03/2011

In every catastrophic period in history of Ummah some remarkable figures come about and they heal the injuries and repair the damage. Umar bin Abdul Aziz is one of these...

Issue 5 Sunnah

The Moral (Akhlaq) of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

Yusuf Kara11/03/201010/02/2012

The finest and most impeccable example of Islam which is the biggest humanness is our beloved prophet (PBUH). The moral model which he revealed by living and practising himself gives...

INTERVIEW Issue 5

The Life of This World is only Play and Amusement

Hamza Berat11/03/201030/03/2011

Would you please introduce yourself briefly? Bismillah wal hamdolilah was-salatu was-salam 'ala rasool Allah. My name is Yusuf, I am 26, I embraced Islam over 8 years ago, when I...

Issue 5 SOCIETY

The Republic

The Pen11/03/201012/04/2011

They asked me at the court: “What do you think about the Republic?” I replied: “As my biography which you have in your hands proves, I was a religious republican...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 5

The American Muslims

Münir Salih11/03/201021/11/2016

In USA where after 9/11 500 thousand Muslims were interrogated by FBI, the Muslims offer thanks to Allah for being saved from the lunatic campaigns experienced under the Bush administration....

Issue 5 OPINION

How do we see ourselves?

Nader Medeiros Hasan Jaber, SUDAN11/03/201002/05/2011

Human beings are indeed unique creatures. It doesn’t matter someone’s background when he looks into the subject, whether it is scientific, philosophical or religious we will find almost every scholar...

Issue 5 News&Events

Message of Secretary General of UNIW for New Hegira Year

The Pen16/12/200906/04/2011

Secretary General of the Union of NGOs of the Islamic World (UNIW) has published a statement at the eve of Islamic New Year. In his statement Sadıkoğlu said: “Today, problems...

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.