Issue 12 – The Pen Magazine

EDUCATION Issue 12 SOCIETY

The World in Crisis: The Qur’anic Remedy

Ahmad Azam Abdulrahman19/12/201113/01/2012

Social problems are abound and have become the order of the day everywhere in the world, whether at the local, national, regional or international levels. Undesirable social conditions, cultural shocks,...

A Garden of Truths Issue 12

A Garden of Truths

The Pen19/12/201130/12/2011

Ashab Al Kahf Ashab Al Kahf (the People of the Cave) is the seven young men who were forced to worship a deity other than Allah and took refuge in...

Issue 12

Benchmarks

The Pen19/12/201124/12/2011

Four Explanations Showing that the Spirituality is Important The matter does not stand on its own. It depends on a meaning and that meaning is the life and spirit. The...

Issue 12 SCIENCE

Science and Islam-2

The Pen19/12/201113/01/2012

By Prof. Ibrahım PIRAHMEDOGLU and Assoc. Prof. Gokalp KAHRAMAN 4. HOW A GUESS TRANSFORMS TO THE STATUS OF LAW Award winning science writer Paul Davies wrote an op-ed New York...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 12

Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina

The Pen02/12/201121/11/2016

By Djermana SETA and Sehija DEDOVIC During the previous century, at the beginning of 90s, Bosnia and Herzegovina like several other countries of the Balkans came into a period of...

Issue 12 Scholars

Imam Rabbani: The Sun of the 10th Century

Feridun SAMIL25/11/201102/02/2015

Imam Rabbani was born in 1563 (h. 971) in Sirhind, India. He is called as “Mujaddid Alf Thani” for he is the Mujaddid of the second thousand-year. Imam-i Rabbani descends from...

HISTORY&CULTURE ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 12

The Great Master of Modern Science

The Pen25/11/201121/11/2016

Interview with Dr. Salah Eddin Al Djazairi Dr. Salah Eddin Al Djazairi has lectured and researched at the University of Constantine (Algeria) for more than ten years. He also tutored...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 12 SOCIETY

Family for Social and Economic Security in Morocco

The Pen25/11/201121/11/2016

Prof. Khadija Moufıd The Concept of the Family The definition of the family that we adhere to is the one of which the concept was unanimously adopted at the conference...

Allah Issue 12

Ar-Rahman

The Pen18/11/201131/08/2016

EXPLANA TIONS ON ITS MEANING According to Ibn Abbas (RA), “Rahman” comes from the root ‘rahmah.’ “Rahmanurrahim” have rahmah (compassion) on His beloveds by treating with softness, love and gentleness. He...

Issue 12

A Masterpiece on Al Andalus civilization

The Pen14/11/201124/06/2014

Excerpted from Foreword by Sala Khadra Jayyusi Salma Khadra Jayyusi, the academic on Arab literature and poetry, collected and edited the essays on various aspects of Al Andalus civilization which...

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The Pen is an educational and cultural periodical which covers 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.