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Issue 26 PILLARS OF FAITH

Understanding Islam

The Pen19/11/201605/03/2021

“ISIS”, “Al-Qaida”, suicide bombing, “Muslim” intolerance and all the rest of it: anyone with an even elementary knowledge of Islamic learning and culture will know how strange and alien, indeed...

Allah Issue 26

Head to head with a Darwinian

Muhammed Zakir Çetin19/11/201619/11/2018

We were in a program in Sav madrasa in Isparta. One evening an elder brother, Hafiz Bekir, called me and said, “I have an atheist nephew. He is a teacher,...

DIVINE BOOKS Issue 25

Why should I learn the Qur’an?

The Pen04/08/201604/08/2016

Our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) says in his hadith; “The best amongst you is he who learns the Qur’an and teaches it.” (Bukhari, Fadhail ul Qur’an, 21) In another hadith; “A believer,...

Allah Issue 25

Evidences for the existence of Allah

İdris Tüzün04/08/201621/11/2016

İdris Tüzün Islam, with its whole truths, is based on the principles of faith; the principles of faith are based on “faith in Allah” which is the very first and...

Allah Epistles Issue 25

The spiritual secrets of “la ilaha illallah”

The Pen21/04/201601/03/2018

In this miserable world amongst these miserable, lost people and in a fruitless life, what is powerless, destitute man worth without an owner and protector, even were he to become...

Hereafter ISSUE 24

A world that is enduring, stable, and perpetual

The Pen24/11/201508/11/2016

It is by no means possible that our Creator should possess this world resembling a temporary guest house, but not possess another, perpetual world that is stable, and that is...

Allah ISSUE 24

A rewarding transaction and an honourable rank

The Pen24/10/201508/11/2016

The sale of one’s self to Allah is the most rewarding of transactions. “The Sixth Word” from the Risale-i Nur Collection In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate...

DIVINE BOOKS HISTORY&CULTURE ISSUE 23

Qur’an Copies from Revelation to Ottoman Era

Mustafa Yılmaz18/06/201519/09/2019

The writing of the Qur’an took its finest form in the 19th and 20th centuries with “Ayat Barkanar” and “Tawafuq” styles. As it’s known, our Holy Qur’an began to be...

DIVINE BOOKS WORSHIP

Ramadan and the Quran

Yusuf Taşaltın18/06/201506/06/2016

Quran was sent to us in the month of Ramadan, in the month of fasting, through Prophet Muhammed (saw) in Makkah. It was one of the odd nights during the...

Hereafter ONLINE ARTICLES

Benefits of Belief in Hereafter to Four Group of People

Yunus Emre Genç29/05/201505/11/2015

Belief in hereafter has been discussed a lot in the last century. But this article is not about to make readers believe in the resurrection after death and the existence...

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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.

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