Metin Said Serdengeçti – The Pen Magazine

Sailing The Ships To The Peace

01/02/201116/04/2014 Metin Said Serdengeçti

BLUE WORLD Since the beginning of the humankind, the good and evil have been in a persistent conflict. Sometimes ‘the good’ gets ahead and sometimes ‘the evil’ does. People subscribe to one of these values according to their character, temper and choices, and a social structure is formed based on the majority. With the inception of the last time of the world, the irreligiousness emerged and spread all around the world from the north, and it incited the racism after the French revolution. The materialistic mindset developed with the industrial…

The Stone and the Child

18/08/201030/03/2011 Metin Said Serdengeçti

The adventure of the stone had started when Cain took up it and hit Abel. Then, it has had a place among our musts in life. Sometimes it has built up the foundations of our houses, sometimes it has become the most patient guardant of our graves. At times, we have grinned and borne anything thanks to it, and at times we have fastened it onto our abdomens to suppress our feel of hunger. Until it becomes an object of protest in innocent small hands of children… In the past,…

The Inconsistency of Expression and Action Between Tradition and Belief

30/12/200930/03/2011 Metin Said Serdengeçti

Thank Allah for being a citizen of a Muslim country where 99 per cent of people are Muslim according to statistical data. This is worth being grateful for and a pleasing state. But a far important consideration is the percentage of the Islam that I put into practice. I have always been happy to be a Muslim. I have always been proud of being an individual in a Muslim society. As a matter of fact I have always suffered from not being a real Muslim. I haven’t been able to…