Ramadan is a month that is longed for by Muslims around the world. As evidenced within its text, the revelation of the Qur’an began in this month. Due to this distinction, the month of Ramadan is called ‘the month of the Qur’an,’ the word of Allah. It is a month of care and calibration in which the values forgotten in the business of daily life are remembered and negative or bad habits are struggled to be e...
In the land of the Muslims, time is divided into two as “before the Hijrah” and “after the Hijrah”.
The extistance of a calendar as Hijri Calendar (which starts with the Hijrah) is by itself enough to show the importance of the migration of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) from Makkah to Madinah.
The twelve-day hijrah of Hazrat Muhammad which took place in the thirteenth year of Islam is indeed such an important mi...
When we look back over the noteworthy events of the 23 years during which the Qur’an was revealed, we find the resistance of the Mushriks (or polytheists) to be utterly senseless and meaningless. This is how it seems, for both the reality of the message of Tawheed that finds expression in ‘La ilaha illallah Muhammedun rasulullah’, (There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah) and the se...
If I were asked what the highest blessing after the belief was, my answer would be ‘offering something to someone’. My pleasure from making someone wear is bigger than that of wearing. For every person who does not have drowned his heart in the narrow streets of the meanness, the case should be the same.
It should be from that secret of offering, an expression addressed to a beloved one, in one of ...
While we were chatting with a friend of mine, a man, as an intruder of the conversation, interrupted our words suddenly and started to talk to us. “All of our personality is shaped till we reached seven years of age. Since then, our life, our character, is shaped by our experiences till that day.”
Then, he, subsequently, arrayed the sentences such as “for instance me… After these sentences to which we l...
Twenty-seven years ago, as a fifteen-year-old young, I spent my summer holiday reading the Risale-i Nur all through.
I was reading the Risale for the first time.
From my first reading, I received from this Risale the amount as fifteen year-old boy receives. My effort in the direction of receiving what I have not derived is still going on.
During this reading, among the long topics, I remember noting sho...
I believe that one of the plainest and the clearest judgment as regards to the modern times was done by an Anatolian brave who is from one point of view rebel and from other one a hero.
As far as I am concerned, Köroğlu’s remark “As the riffle was invented, manliness spoiled” in fact, interprets aptly the spirit of modern times and x-rays it.
In the modern times, vileness has replaced with b...
$Can you introduce yourself? Where were you born? Your education background?
My name is Jerod Evan Michel. I was born in Ventura, CA which is a kind of outside the LA area. I grew up in another place outside LA area. I finished elementary school there. I finished high school in Oregon. I got my undergraduate at Southern Oregon University. I got my masters at Oklahoma State University. I was a teacher in...
Social studies books mention concentric circles concerning someone’s relationships with his/her human environment. We begin, as educators, to teach self, family, neighbourhood, town, city, state, etc… We have a lot of relationships with all of these circles. Therefore, we have some obligations regarding to those circles. That is to say, we are responsible from ourselves, our family, our neighbourhood, ...
My son runs around the living room playing ball with his older sister. Full of joy, energy and life. The way a child should be. Not a care in the world. Feeling safe and secure in his knowledge that all he need do is ask or cry for his food, a nap or a comforting hug.
Suddenly I hear my neighbour’s son, Ahmad’s cries. Ahmad lives in Palestine. Ahmad is crying like I have never heard a child cry. But his ...
The value of what we found is proportional to our efforts. We usually understand the value of what we have in our hand when we are deprived of them. Firsts leave a nice memory on us because firsts contain the long lasting deprivation in them.
I met with Mustafa last year during a Ramadan dinner. Like many convert man to Islam, with his smiling face, with a beard that gives an impression of uncle hadji, Mus...
The truth that, what we carry within our bodies, our souls, our mind, our heart, along with thousands of emotions, was given to us in trust by our Creator, tells us that we don't have the right to use our body in any way we please. Because a body created by the Creator of the cosmos must be used in the way that He wants and demands.
Praise is the display of the attributes of perfection. A flower displays God’s Attributes by default. But in human beings, if our freewill interferes, we might cover them up. So we need to just submit and let the Attributes of perfections manifest on us. So in a sense, we have to choose to display what is already in us, like the flower. But we have been given an extra capacity to witness and confirm this display in other creatures as well.
If mankind can unveil the curtain of ordinariness, he will observe that there is no single thing in this world to be called ordinary. Everything in this world is unique and perfect in the sense that it performs task that entail extraordinary power, science, will, artistry and wisdom and cries out the name of All-Sovereign.
Objections to death arise from our assuming possession of our own lives. If we realize and accept that life has been given to us by The Creator and is a miracle, then we can accept that death is also given by Him and is also a miracle. Explaining death with life will allow the child to appreciate the value of his life more.
Particles with nano (a billionth of a meter) sizes are of great interest in today’s science. Everybody is now trying to nanotize their ultrahigh technological instruments to catch up with the ongoing nanofashion. At this point, seeing the word “particles” instead of “atoms” while reading about how The Law of Wisdom gives role to do important duties to inanimate and unconscious particles unravels the mystery of how nanosized particles are under the Highest Command.
Four questions that each panelist is asked to respond:
1. What is your definition of morality? What are your motivations?
2. How do we go about moral reasoning if we are faced with a dilemma?
3. How do you translate your understanding of morality into your daily life?
4. Is there a universal morality (is morality possible w/out religion/spirituality?)
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The desire for fame and fortune, the need to leave one's mark, lurked everywhere. TV shows, newspapers, radio programs, songs that have been sung, song lyrics that have been written, compositions, movies made in Hollywood and elsewhere...they could all be considered to be pictures of the longing for eternity. But longing for eternity was not enough to guarantee eternity. Our biggest mistake began here. We thought that longing for eternity was enough to render us immortal.
WE LIVE IN a world which is being constructed at the same time it is being destroyed. Symbols are made and symbols are destroyed. Houses are built and houses are destroyed. People are born, people are killed. Bonds are formed, bonds are destroyed. Peace is made, war destroys.
Humanity, having made so much progress in so many different aspects, has failed to show the same degree of success in building a...
Islam is the only surviving and vibrant “culture” over which empire has yet to achieve domination. This is strikingly different from a territorial argument. Empire is less interested in territorial control and more in non-territorial resources.
I met Edward Said two months before his death. That was my first and the last face-to-face encounter with him. We will miss his passionate voice and powerful presence but his intellectual legacy does continue to illuminate our paths and critical engagements with the world.
Each time I read and listen to the chapter Maryam in the Quran, I come across with a big ocean of surprise and admiration. The unique knitted verse by verse eloquence of the chapter produces a deep satisfactory feeling in my inner world.
The name of the chapter is Maryam (Mary), yet it starts with God’s mentioning His mercy on His servant Zachariah (peace be upon him)[1]. This is a matter of a...
Today, force, in physics, is defined as an influence that sets a stable body in motion or stops a moving one or changes its direction (1). Also, it has never been recorded so far to be a concept which exists on its own (2), meaning not independent. That is to say, the force itself is owned by someone, by all means, it has an owner (3). At the same time, it is obviously understood that force has been already...
I had been after enchanted romances all my life. I wanted to be lost in the magic of love, to melt in it, to disappear in it. I wanted to spend my time thinking about "the one" for hours on end, to transfer her into my world and keep her there, alive, to burn for her. To unite her existence with my own. And once was not enough. I don't know how many loves I lived in my mind, how many people I dreamed of lov...
YOU ARE READY FOR WEDDİNG. YOU ARE HAPPY because you are getting married. You are happy because you are ready to start spending every night of rest of your life with one you are in love with. You are happy because tonight is the first one of those nights, nuptial night actually, the happiest moment of your life.
You "set up a date" for wedding months ago. Not only does your happiness start from ...
