Psychology – The Pen Magazine

ISSUE 24 Psychology

The illness of intellectual arrogance

Cemal Ersen24/10/201508/11/2016

Intellectual arrogance disease may lead people who are more or less educated to oppose to the great scholars of Islam, and may lead them to refuse their ideas. What common...

EDUCATION HUMAN RELATIONS Issue 16 Psychology

Clashes in Human Relations and Solutions

İdris Ferid09/11/201221/11/2016

A healthy and stable society is comprised of psychologically healthy individuals. For such a society to flourish, the relations and communication between individuals should be solid and vivid, and the...

EDUCATION HUMAN RELATIONS Issue 16 Psychology

Criticism in Human Relations and The Damage It Can Cause

Mahmut Babur09/11/201230/04/2014

Within the framework of enjoining what is good and preventing what is evil, taking an effective approach towards people’s mistakes is important. If we do not evaluate the balances and...

Issue 15 PILLARS OF FAITH Psychology

The Wisdom Behind Calamities

Muhammed Zakir Çetin25/07/201214/10/2014

Disasters are facts of life and they are not meaningless. If we try to read the messages that they convey to us, we may receive the wisdom behind them. وَاتَّقُواْ...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 9 Psychology

Fear Of Islam: Genuine Or Made-up?

Salahaddin Özel01/02/201121/11/2016

Since 9/11 the term Islamophobia has been one of the most discussed issues all around the world. ‘Phobia’ is a psychological term and mostly caused by traumas particularly experienced in...

EDUCATION Issue 9 Psychology

The Struggle Between Will and Soul; Mind and Emotion

Yunus Erdem01/02/201124/05/2014

The front part of human brain is named as “frontal lobe”, and it is the centre of will, reasoning and intellect. Hypothalamus- the middle part of brain- is the centre...

ONLINE ARTICLES Psychology RELIGION & BELIEF

Man, Narcissism and The Creator

Salahaddin Özel12/01/201107/04/2011

Narcissism, a psychological term derived from Greek mythology, is defined in the dictionary as “the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness.” When you read the characteristics of...

ONLINE ARTICLES Psychology SOCIETY

Why You Should Forgive…

Feride Karahan03/11/201003/05/2014

“Keep to forgiveness, and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant.” (Surah Al-Araf; 199) “The guerdon of an ill-deed is an ill the like thereof. But whosoever pardoneth and...

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