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Issue 30

Cooperation and division of labour

Zeyneabidin Yıldırım19/11/2018

Tashreek-i masa‘i means joint effort, cooperation, uniting in labour and working together. Taqseem-i a’mal means division of labour, distribution of work and the specialization of everyone by giving thought to...

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Our duty is to serve

Dr Muhammed Bostan19/11/201819/09/2020

According to the secret of “The master of a people is the one who serves them.” 1 the condition for being a master is to serve. Although the words ‘duty’...

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Four functions of Sunnah

Ali Cirit19/11/201803/05/2019

Sunnah is defined as follows: The way lived in and adopted, tradition, character, creation (disposition) temper, way formed of commands and prohibitions. 1 As a term Sunnah means ‘the entire...

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Answers to the claims of Deism

Mustafa Topöz19/11/201819/11/2018

The claims of the philosophy of deism can be summarized in following two articles: 1. Allah exists. He has created the universe. However, He set up a system which operates...

Issue 30

The Pen 30th issue

The Pen15/10/201818/09/2019

Editor's letter: The person who has lived the Qur’an in his life the most Yunus Emre PEHLİVAN Answers to the claims of Deism Mustafa TOPOZ Four functions of Sunnah Ali CIRIT Our duty is to...

EDITOR Issue 30

The person who has lived the Qur’an in his life the most

Yunus Emre Pehlivan15/10/201828/09/2021

Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah. The Sunnah of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him) - the entire words, actions and approval attributed to him - is the...

Featured Issue 29

On Ramadan al-Sharif

The Pen24/05/201801/06/2022

Verses from the Qur’an “It was the month of Ramadan in which the Quran was (first) sent down as guidance for all people, having (in it) clear proofs of (divine)...

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The most perfect fasting

The Pen24/05/201819/11/2018

The most excellent fasting is to make the human senses and organs, such as the eyes, ears, heart, and mind, fast together with the stomach. That is, to withdraw them...

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The art of paper and leather cutting: Qat‛ı

Mustafa Yılmaz24/05/2018

Qat or qat‛ı means “to cut” in the dictionary. Qat‛ı is the art of decoration which is done by gouging out a writing, motif or figure on a paper or...

Issue 29

Three advisements

Arif Emre Gündüz24/05/201819/11/2018

Good or bad, whatever a person does he does it for himself, He cannot despise anyone if he knows what he is himself. Despise nobody! One of the mistakes –...

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.

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