Issue 35 – The Pen Magazine

Issue 35

Fountains predestined for goodness

Mustafa Yılmaz30/06/202112/07/2021

“Water is life.” Following the advice of the Prophet (asw) “The best charity is to give water to drink”, Muslims have made great efforts to deliver water to people and...

Issue 35

Strengthening communication with children

Hilal Ramazan29/06/202128/04/2021

Understanding children and explaining oneself to them can often be a challenging issue for parents. Sometimes parents wish there is someone to be able to explain what the children want...

Issue 35

The secret of communication in the family

Ali Husrev YAGIZ28/06/202128/04/2021

Every person wants to have a happy family in this life. This happiness is directly related to the effect that the faith in Allah has on the family. Because faith...

Issue 35

Reasonable answer to great curiosity

Ali Semerci23/06/202130/09/2021

Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi draws attention to the subject of "curiosity" In the Tenth Droplet of his work “The Miracles of Muḥammad (pbuh)”. He emphasizes that this feeling, which raises...

Issue 35

Civilization of compassion

H.Halid Atlı21/06/202130/09/2021

Compassion, which is the reflection of Allah's Names Rahman and Rahim (Merciful and Compassionate) in the universe, constitutes the source of all kinds of goodness in the world. Compassion is...

Issue 35

Luminous Points from the Book of Light

Mustafa Topöz18/06/202128/04/2021

THE 4 SOURCES OF THE ISLAMIC SHARIA (1) Sharia, which means "Islamic decrees", has emerged from the following 4 features of the Quranic verses. 1- Nusūs; that is, definite decrees....

How does Allah manage the whole universe?

The Pen17/06/202101/06/2022

Many people ask: How can Allah easily create and manage all beings at the same time, even though He is One? How can the mind of man understand such a...

Issue 35

Time for self-illumination

Zafer Zengin14/06/202128/04/2021

When we look at the history of Islam, from the Age of Bliss (Asr al-Saadah) to the present time, religious education has been systematically given to the people by means...

Issue 35

Becoming the people of godfearingness

The Pen10/06/202128/04/2021

Imam Ghazali (ra), in his book named Mukāshafātu'l-Qulūb, relates the following about “taqwa” (godfearingness; that is,avoiding sins with the fear of Allah), narrating from Abu al-Layth as-Samarkandi, the great moral...

Issue 35

Prisoner education

Yunus Emre Pehlivan02/06/202106/11/2021

Prisons are the places of punishment. You can mostly find criminals there, but let’s not forget that there are also who are not real criminals or even innocent in prisons....

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.