A PROPHET OF MERCY AND HIS WARS Lesley Stahl hosted Madeleine Albright, then-the Secretary of State of USA, in a news programme. They talked on the US sanctions against Iraq after first Gulf war in which many children lost their lives due to lack of nutrition and medicine. When Lesley asked her guest “We have heard that a half million children...
A Savior the World was/is Waiting For: Who else Besides Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)? DR. HASAN KARATAŞ – NEW YORK Recently a controversy among the American Christian missionaries sparked over reaching out to Muslims all around the world. It is about an evangelizing a strategy called the Camel Method, which uses verses from the Quran to convince Muslims...
Muhlis AYDIN Sending Greetings to our Prophet Muhammad m.aydin@thepenmagazine.net Narrated by Jabir (RA): ‘’Do not get me such as a water container, which a rider of an animal hangs behind of the animal. Because, the rider of the animal fills up his water container, loads his goods to the animal, then fastens the water container behind the saddle....
Dr. Ali CERRAHOGLU When the apostle of Allah (PBUH) announced his prophethood, this announcement was a defiance not only to a tribe, a group of politicians, or a religion but to all sultans, kings and religions. However, at the beginning, it was a visible fact that he (PBUH) would suffer challenging difficulty in his cause while his tribe, kinsfolk...
Mustafa YANKIN m.yankin@thepenmagazine.net “Our beloved Prophet (PBUH) is the seed of the universe, the universe was created out of his nur (noor) and he is the last and the most enlightened fruit of the universe.” Understanding this statement will help us to better understand the Prophet (PBUH). If you observe the universe with wisdom you can...
WHAT DID THEY SAY about the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)? Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (may Allah be pleased with him) says in his Tafsir al-Kabir: “His fame (PBUH) spreads to heaven and encompasses the earth, and his name is written on arsh a’la; and uttered with the name of Allah in Kalimat-ul Shahadah. Every muazzin recites his name in Adhan, every preacher...
Dr. Yusuf Bahadır DEREN Expressions we utilize for people involve serious clues divulging our emotions. The more we know people in our lives and give place to them in our lives, the more our expressions become very decent, pleasant and careful when we remember them. The expressions we chose divulge where we put people in our lives and what they mean...
CEMAL ERŞEN We will share the findings of a western non-Muslim scientist, Michael Hart, about our Prophet (PBUH) in this article. Ustad Bediuzzaman says; “Virtue is what even his enemies confirm” Now, although that man is a non-Muslim, since he searched with fairness he saw the clear virtues of our Prophet (PBUH) and showed these facts in his book...
