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Allah

A counsellor and a guide that never deceives

Yunus Emre Pehlivan18/09/202028/09/2021

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah. Illness is a counsellor that never deceives, and a guide and admonisher. The period of affliction and tribulation is very long. Days might feel like weeks;...

Hereafter Issue 32 Recommended

How to secure eternal happiness?

Yunus Emre Pehlivan14/07/202025/01/2021

We must secure happiness in the afterlife because it is where we are going to spend the rest of our life. Death, which is the end of this transient life,...

Allah Issue 32

What He has done? What He will do?

Muhammed Nuri14/07/202025/01/2021

Allah, the Creator of the worlds, has made Himself known to humans through harmoniously ordered works of art. He has endeared Himself to them by way of the ornamented fruits...

Hereafter Issue 32

Benefits of belief in akhirah

Hamza Berat14/07/202025/01/2021

Let us all think about a feeble child who has lost his brother or sister, or whose grannies have passed away recently. That child is in great distress and sadness....

Issue 32 Prophets

Messengers necessarily required

The Pen14/07/202025/01/2021

Divinity cannot be known unless messengers are sent. The sun necessarily entails its light; for the sun cannot be known unless it spreads lights. Similarly, Allah necessarily requires messengers. A...

Allah Issue 32

A painting cannot be without a painter

Dr Mirza İnak14/07/202025/01/2021

We have a painting in our hand. It is a beautiful oil painting of butterflies fluttering. It is for sure that this painting has been made by a painter. This...

Allah Epistles Issue 28 Suggested Reading

Obedience to Divine Law and obedience to egoistic caprice

The Pen25/12/201719/09/2020

The happiness of this world lies in worship and in becoming a soldier of Allāh, as does the happiness of the Hereafter. “The Third Word” from the Risale-i Nur Corpus...

Allah Issue 28

A window of reflection opened to the knowledge of Allah

Muhammed Said Arpacı25/12/201724/05/2018

“The seven heavens and the earth and whatever is in them exalt Him.” (Isra, 17:44) A work lets you know its artist Although you have not seen the architect Sinan...

Hereafter

Life after death

The Pen22/12/201625/12/2017

Will your consciousness survive your own bodily death? Will there still be a “you” after you die – which is to say, will you continue to have conscious experiences in...

Allah

The existence of God

The Pen22/12/201603/10/2017

Islam teaches belief in one god, and that this God is not some arbitrarily chosen god amongst other gods, but the beginninglessly eternal reality, the Only God, Who did not...

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.