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Risale-i Nur: The concept and how to benefit from it

İdris Tüzün18/09/201308/11/2016

It is hard to define and categorize Risale-i Nur as a collection of Islamic books. Is it a kind of tafsir or a book of irshad? How shall we define...

Issue 19 OPINION SOCIETY Sunnah

The Need for Prophetic Morality in the Modern Islamic World

Prof Dr Hj. Fadhlullah Jamil, MALAYSIA09/09/201301/12/2016

The more we research the problems in the Muslim world, the more we realize that we have them because we have been alienated from the good attitude and moral standing...

Issue 19 OPINION SOCIETY

Employer and Employee Relations in Islam

Abdulkadir Salih31/08/201324/11/2014

The relations between “haves” and “have-nots” have been problematic since ancient times, and remain so today. The greed of man has always led him to turn his fellows into slaves...

Issue 19 OPINION SOCIETY Sunnah

Appreciation: A Way to Make Abilities Flourish

İdris Ferid31/08/201308/11/2016

Showing appreciation and respect for scholars, artists and virtuous people is important, just as it is for ordinary people. This is one of the ways of bringing out the beauty...

OPINION

Qardhul Hassan instead of Microcredit

The Pen22/06/201314/10/2014

By Abdulkadir Salih Under the hard conditions of the modern economic system, the Muslims should seek the legal ways out for their economic transactions and qardhul hassan seems to be...

EDUCATION OPINION

Revitalizing Higher Education in The Muslim World

The Pen22/06/201314/10/2014

All aspects of backwardness in the Ummah's history are the results of distortions in the Ummah's cognitive and psychological makeup, which can be treated only when their true nature is...

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...

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.