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Issue 11

Wisdom in the Specified Times of the Five Daily Prayers

The Pen16/08/201124/08/2011

Performing Salat five times a day has been designated by the Quran and Sunnah. Salah is one of the five pillars of Islam. As the fact that Salah is fardh...

Issue 11 WORSHIP

Mystery and Necessity of Salah

Salahaddin Özel16/08/201131/03/2022

WE PERFORM SALAT, SALAT MAKES US HUMAN The reason for the creation of the universe, namely humans is worship, which is stated in the versicle of the Quran as “I...

Issue 11 WORSHIP

Meaning and Necessity of Worship

The Pen16/08/201107/05/2014

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اعْبُدُواْ رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ People, worship your Lord who created you and those who lived before you, so that you may become...

Issue 11

Tawhid and the Statement of Shahadah

The Pen16/08/201124/08/2011

Tawhid is to profess the oneness of Allah, to know him The One only, that is the unification of the existence of Allah. It is to believe that He is...

ISLAMIC WORLD ONLINE ARTICLES OPINION

Somalia and Syria: ‘On the edge of humanity’

A.Cihangir İşbilir16/08/201121/11/2016

“This is the shame of the age” said the young diplomat sitting on my table. “Which one?” I said, “The starvation in Somalia or the massacres in Syria?” After the...

Issue 11 WORSHIP

Medical Interpretation of Fasting

The Pen15/08/201114/08/2014

Fasting Against Obesity, the Disease of the Era First, I will inform you about obesity, and then I will compare numerous but generally ineffective current treatments with Islamic approaches. The...

Issue 11 WORSHIP

King’s Open Treasury Day

Hamza Berat15/08/201114/08/2014

In a far distant country was an old man. During his lifespan, had he loads of opportunities to collect some money for his old age but he failed to do...

Issue 11 WORSHIP

Zakat in Islamic Civilization

The Pen15/08/201127/04/2014

Zakat means purification, refinement and abundance. Extracting the due share of the poor from one’s belongings given by Allah as rizq (sustenance) nd giving them zakat purifies man from spiritual...

FAMILY Issue 4

Women and Family in Risala-i Nur

Mehlika Yağmur15/08/201123/03/2012

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi established a spiritual university in Anatolia and in order to enroll at this university he demanded four essences which are impotence (ajz), poorness (faqr), compassion (shafqah), and...

Issue 11 SCIENCE

Science and Islam

The Pen15/08/201130/04/2014

1. Introduction Most learned people regard science as a reliable way of obtaining knowledge about the world and life because science requires healthy questioning and testing of ideas. Yet many...

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.