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Articles Issue 21 Issue 22 LEAD ARTICLE

Risale-i Nur is a Commentary of the Holy Quran

The Pen30/09/201414/10/2016

Risale-i Nur is such a strong tafseer, which expresses, explains, and proves the truths of faith of the Qur’an with strong evidence and proof, that it silences the most obstinate...

Issue 18 LEAD ARTICLE PILLARS OF FAITH SCIENCE

Mi’raj (Ascension) and the New Physics

The Pen15/06/201321/11/2016

The Dial Watch Issue in the Treatise of Mi’raj (Ascension): The Physics of Time and Space Though modern science keeps metaphysical phenomena out of its domain of research and indeed...

Issue 22 LEAD ARTICLE

The work that destroys the cornerstone of irreligion

Cemal Ersen17/05/201308/11/2016

As a work on the philosophy of naturalism’s pitfalls and fallacies, the Treatise on Nature of Imam Nursi is very effective in revealing the inner workings of this intellectually poisonous...

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...

Issue 17 LEAD ARTICLE PHILOSOPHY

Are we really able to see?

Mehmed Kurt12/03/201307/05/2014

Basirat (insight) used in Islamic sources has a different connotation than when it is used as a term in secular contexts. By that word, a kind of spiritual faculty is...

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...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 14 LEAD ARTICLE OPINION

The Problems of Balkan Muslims

The Pen06/04/201221/11/2016

The Problems of Balkan Muslims: A General Evaluation By Adnan İsmailî, Skopje Introduction The Balkan peninsula is a frontier zone extending between Europe and Asia which faces North Africa from...

Issue 9 LEAD ARTICLE RELIGION & BELIEF

The Criticism Of Atheism

İdris Tüzün17/05/201131/05/2014

The emergence and running of the universe: cause and effect or a divine power? “Warm air near the Earth's surface tends to absorb moisture in the form of invisible water...

Allah Issue 7 LEAD ARTICLE

Proving the Existence of Allah (SWT)

İdris Ferid04/09/201012/04/2011

Islamic theology (Kalaam) tried to prove God's existence only emphasizing on mind, and did not dwell on marifatullah (knowing Allah),. Mysticism (Tasawwuf) by contrast, did not focus on proving the...

Issue 5 LEAD ARTICLE

The Principles of Invitation to Islam

Muhammed Zakir Çetin11/03/201012/04/2011

The activity of invitation to Islam has been described in a tafseer1 based upon the principles expressed in the verses of the Qur’an and hadiths. Reading those, we can highlight...

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.