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Articles Issue 18 LEAD ARTICLE

The Positive Attitude

The Pen26/04/201314/10/2016

In the face of regime’s oppression Risale-i Nur movement has adopted the positive attitude as a way of existence and performing service to faith. The positive attitude in Risale-i Nur movement...

Articles Issue 16 Issue 22 LEAD ARTICLE

A Short History of Risale-i Nur Service

Mustafa Topöz16/12/201214/10/2016

Imam Nursi, after living a life full of struggle to save the faith of the people and to defeat the materialist ideology, left behind a service which is now illuminating...

Articles Issue 15 Issue 22

Imam Said Nursi’s Service to Faith

Cemal Ersen14/09/201214/10/2016

Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi gave tremendous service to the people of Turkey by protecting their faith under the harsh conditions of the former autocratic nationalist secular Republic of Turkey, handing...

Articles Issue 22

When were Risale-i Nur treatises written?

The Pen05/04/201214/10/2016

Primary Treatises of Risale-i Nur Collection were written after Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi arrived in Isparta in 1926: The Words: 1926 – 1929 The Letters: 1929 - 1932 The Flashes:...

Articles RELIGION & BELIEF

How Turkey saved from Communism?

The Pen03/04/201214/10/2016

Many people wonder how the communism could not spread in Turkey, although many Muslim and non-Muslim countries, Turkish countries in Central Asia, European countries, and even the southern neighbours of...

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...

Articles Issue 10 WORSHIP

Maxims about Salah

The Pen15/06/201108/11/2016

The prayers and supplications for rain are a form of worship. Drought is the time for such worship. Worship and supplications of this sort are not in order to bring...

Articles Issue 7 OPINION

A Reflection on Uslub Al-Da’wah of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Ab. Halim İsmail, MALAYSIA21/09/201014/10/2016

TWENTIETH LETTER: This is an attempt to give a brief review in term of styles and approaches of da’wah of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, based on the Twentieth Letter, contained in...

Articles ONLINE ARTICLES

The Great Islamic Scholar

Yusuf Kara17/09/201014/10/2016

The Great Islamic Scholar: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1) From this week on for several weeks, we will embark on a new series of writing about the life of an outstanding...

Articles Issue 5 OPINION

The Impact of Da‘wah

Prof Dr Hj. Fadhlullah Jamil, MALAYSIA11/03/201014/10/2016

Introduction: Each time the Muslim ummah faced with a setback or a socio-religious down turn, Allah the Almighty with all His blessings and grace sent the mujaddid (reformer) or mujaddidun...

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.