Issue 20

  • The Horizon Of Hope: Spiritual Or Metaphysical Thought

    The modern Western world-view is said to be founded almost entirely on materialistic notions excluding, even denying, the spiritual or metaphysical dimension of existence. This is a controversial point but many so-called intellec

    Published October - December 1997 - M. Fethullah Gulen

    Education from Cradle to Grave

    Introduction The main duty and purpose of human life is to seek understanding. The effort of doing so, known as education, is a perfecting process though which we earn, in the spiritual, intellectual, and physical dimensio

    Published October - December 1997 - M. Fethullah Gulen

    Generating Electricity from the Sun

    Introduction In recent years, we have realized that the world's supplies of coal, gas and oil are limited. Nuclear power has been used as an alternative solution to fossil fuels. However, the use of nuclear power and fos

    Published October - December 1997 - Tankut Yalcinoz

    Causality & the Qur'anie world-view

    The universe has been made in the form of a book, intelligible, so as to make known its Author. The book addresses man. The aim is to make him read the book and its parts, and respond with worship and thanks to the will of the Aut

    Published October - December 1997 - Y. Mermer

    The sub-atomic World and Creation

    Out of the three famous papers that Albert Einstein published in 1905, On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light explicitly stated the quantum hypothesis for electromagnetic radiation, and

    Published October - December 1997 - Dr. Senol Ersin

    Homesickness

    For man this world is like a foreign land, a fearful ocean, where he flounders a whole lifetime among waves of anxiety. At every step and every station, he expects a dawn of hope to break; Morning begins with pains, evening com

    Published October - December 1997 - M. Fethullah Gulen

    Reflections On The Existence And Unity Of The Creator 601

    'In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of night and day; in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the benefit of mankind; in the water which God sends down from the sky and with which He re

    Published October - December 1997 - The Fountain

    The Governor With Four Faults

    The second Caliph after the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab has a world-wide reputation for justice and simple life-style despite ruling a very vast area stretching from Abyssinia to Caucas

    Published October - December 1997 - A. Sahin

    Genetic Engineering And Islamic Law

    Recombinant DNA technology has not developed quickly. Only after decades of basic research and the accumulation of extensive knowledge did the current technology become feasible and available to the many scientists who now use it

    Published October - December 1997 - Mu'az MU'ALLAH

    A Turkish Humorist And Sage: Nasr Al-Din Khodja

    Nasr al-Din Khodja is one of the most famous philosophers of humour in world history. His anecdotes, told over a vast area from Germany to Japan, contain lessons aiming to highlight a human defect or weak spot and thereby improve

    Published October - December 1997 - V. Ayhan

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