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Man: the honoured guest

The Pen18/01/201203/05/2014

Man, 1- is the final and most comprehensive fruit of the tree of the universe 2- in respect of the Muhammadan (Peace and blessings be upon him) Reality is its...

Angels RELIGION & BELIEF

Are we alone in this universe?

Cemil Ruşeni18/05/201124/06/2014

In the second point of the first chapter of his treatise on belief, Bediuzzaman recounts a dream, where Bediuzzaman sees himself on a high bridge between two lofty mountains. It...

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

The Precious Gift…

Feride Karahan09/11/201003/06/2014

Gift... Precious... Valuable... Life... Life is a gift... Actually life is a precious gift... Who does give such a precious gift to us? Who does provide the maintenance of our...

ONLINE ARTICLES SOCIETY

Fallacious Mentality of Human Beings

Emre Karahan25/10/201016/04/2014

We call ourselves human beings. We know that we are different than the other creatures in this universe. We have so many qualifications differ other creatures from us such as...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF

The Existence of Human Being: Chance or Purposeful?

Salahaddin Özel07/10/201001/04/2011

Let us begin with a question. What is the value of human being? Every field of knowledge has its answer to this question. However the real question is whether all...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF

Death: Never on our Agenda

Yunus Emre Pehlivan07/10/201001/04/2011

We lost two brothers of us last week in an accident. It was a real shock for us. Two men passed away in their thirties at a time nobody expected....

HUMAN RELATIONS ONLINE ARTICLES

Respect for Humanity (2)

Emre Karahan13/07/201001/04/2011

Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it, that is shortly kindness and compassion, corner stones of civilization and humanity. Civilization, this term and...

Issue 5 OPINION

How do we see ourselves?

Nader Medeiros Hasan Jaber, SUDAN11/03/201002/05/2011

Human beings are indeed unique creatures. It doesn’t matter someone’s background when he looks into the subject, whether it is scientific, philosophical or religious we will find almost every scholar...

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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 is published biannually. Every print issue of The Pen covers and sheds 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. The Pen 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.