• The Trustworthy (1)

    by Hamza BERAT Shall we remember him? Shall we recall our primary knowledge about him? Shall we remind ourselves of his good manners and etiquettes? What do we know about him? Where shall we start? In order to remember his life again and learn our lessons from his blessed life, let’s start with the...

  • Does the Qur’an Contain Everything?

    It is said that “the Qur’an contains everything.” Could you explain this sentence? “There is not a grain in the darkness of the earth nor anything fresh or dry that is not in a clearest Book (the Qur’an)!” (An‘am: 59) As understood from the verse, the Qur’an contains everything....

  • The Principles of Invitation to Islam

    The activity of invitation to Islam has been described in a tafseer1 based upon the principles expressed in the verses of the Qur’an and hadiths. Reading those, we can highlight some principles. For me, the following are the most important ones of these principles: 1. To start with faith as it is...

By Feride KARAHAN Why are we here? Why are we in this world? Is it just to pass the time? Just to take the pleasure of the world? Do we have a certain duty here in this world? Why are we sent here? Or are we sent here just for ourselves without the sense of brotherhood/sisterhood? We have always been crying out the problems but less we talk about...

Yusuf KARA Qur’an is the Pre-Eternal and Post Eternal word of the Creator of the Universe. As for the universe itself, it is composed of the created verses of Allah (SWT). In other words, it is the concrete manifestation and reflection of the names and attributes of Almighty Allah. So, we see that Allah has basically manifested himself in these...

Hamza BERAT Let us remember the famous scholar Imam Al-Nursi’s famous quotation from Mathnawi al-Nuriya: “I have learnt only four words and four phrases in forty years of my life and thirty years of my education”. We mentioned the four words, which are point of view, intention, significative meaning and nominal meaning in the previous article....

Emre KARAHAN 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 definition supposed to have a positive meaning. Indeed it has. But what kind of a civilization is that? A civilization where people doesn’t...

Selahattin Özel Before Qur’an’s great transformation, the life in the Arab peninsula was harsh and hard in terms of not only geographical or physical but also moral and spiritual conditions. The religion of prophet Ibrahim, once was illuminating and guiding, had been distorted and there were a few people who are following it. Paganism was widespread...

Philosophy and Quran by EMRE KARAHAN The training which philosophy, science and the Quranic wisdom give to social life is totally different from each other. “Philosophy accepts ‘force’ as its point of support in social life. It considers its aim to be ‘the benefits’. The principle of its life recognized to be ‘conflict’....

İbrahim DİLFİRUZ 1-   The Eloquence of  the Holy Quran Eloquence is primarily the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Undoubtedly, The Quran has this feature and even more than that which is I’jaz (إعجاز), an Arabic term for the act of rendering incapable...

Selahattin ÖZEL “If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support. (Isra, 88) Qur’an, the sacred word of Allah (SWT), illuminated the Arab peninsula which is in a dark and deep ignorance in the...