1993

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

M. Fethullah Gulen

8531

Compassion

Compassion is the beginning of being, without it everything is chaos. Everything has come into existence through compassion and by compassion it continues to exist in harmony. The earth was put in ord... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Peter J. Alister

5627

Water for life

There are about 1,360 million cubic kilometres of water on the earth. If all the water, on the planet; from oceans, lakes, rivers, the atmosphere, underground aquifers and what is locked up in glacier... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

K. Aydin

25201

Western presentation of the Ottoman Turks

The Turks have never been detached, in Western imagination, from other Islamic nations of the Middle East even though they are of a completely different geographical, cultural and, above all, linguist... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

M. F. Sahin

7283

God, His Essence And Attributes

God is absolutely other than His creation. The Creator cannot by any means be the same kind of being as that which He created. Although this is self-evident to sense and reason, some people still ask ... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Dr. R. Ileri

5071

Our common environment

Environment is whatever outside an organism surrounds it and in which it lives. It may be a geographical region, a certain climatic condition, the pollutants or the noise around the organism. The nat... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

M.h Kayani

8016

Islamic Perpective on Knowledge and Learning

Progress in knowledge and technology may be likened to the widening ripples caused by a pebble thrown in a pool of water. All civilizations have benefited from the knowledge of their predecessors and ... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Dr. S. E. Konuk

4751

Come-back for a traditional remedy?

The evening primrose, oenothera spp., is not in fact a primrose but is related to the garden flowers clarkia and gotedia and also to the rose bay willow-herb. It has a two year growth cycle; during th... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

The Fountain

4885

In His Way

Those who have found The Truth found Him in their souls; Those who have been detained half-way have been hindered by conjectures. Who truly seeks will truly find Him, while the indolent can do neith... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

5776

The Necessity of Religion

To understand the world and the spirit of man in it; to understand the nature and the worth of religion to man; to understand how, if there is no religion, the world becomes the darkest dungeon and th... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Dr. I. Yilmaz

4981

If I hadn't met them

In common with many children, I took a great interest in living organisms and in matters related to them. Later, this interest was to play a very important part in my life. At primary school, when ou... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Dr. H. Nurbaki

10375

Wudu: a prescription for good health

O believers, when you stand for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe your heads, and wash your feet up to the ankles. If you are unclean, bathe and purify your bodies f read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

S. Trim

25024

Sinan, the Architect

Sinan is one of the most internationally renowned and admired architects, and certainly the best architect of the period which European history designates the High Renaissance. Sinan lived a tremendou... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Hikmet Isik

5834

Regrets About Science and Technology

Today, we are as exposed to great calamities and dangers as we have open to us great possibilities and hopes. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been two of the most productive and richest ce... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Trish Madigan

2360

The Relationship Between

What are the ways of internalizing good ethical conduct and high virtues so as to make them a part of our nature? Virtues such as sincerity (ikhlas1), loyalty, refraining from backbiting or suspicion... read more..

01-01-1993

Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

The Fountain

5795

Editorial

The Fountain, as a voice of faith and consciousness of duty, of hope and resolution, is appearing on the publishing scene at a time when all kinds of calamities-famine, war, flood, earthquake-have dar... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

M. Fethullah Gulen

6407

Hope

We are on the threshold of great and far-reaching changes. The community is writhing in the birth-pangs of the new time that is approaching. It is no wonder that the people are fearful, anxious, somet... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

M. A. Sayar

5840

Is technology a common heritage of all mankind?

INTRODUCTION Technology can be referred to as the systematic knowledge for manufacture of a product, for the application of a process or for the interpretation of a service and the capacity to use su... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

M. Sabih

7006

Individualism and Solitude

Many of the fundamental doctrines and attributes of Western civilization are a mixture of Greek-Roman values and a distorted Christianity. They are ultimately derived from ancient, pagan myths, one of... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

Dr. R. Ileri

7696

Water and Vitality

Water is a common liquid which forms rain, river, sea etc. and which constitutes a large part of the mass of all organic bodies. Water is essential to plant and animal life. Since the human body consi... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

I. Bal

6660

The end of Russian genocide

Relations between Turks and Russians can be understood in three stages: Turkic-Muslim hegemony, the period of Russian hegemony and the present.Slavs and Turks first met on the plains of Eastern Europe... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

Dr. I. Yilmaz

5099

Biology and Religion

Today, as the prestige of materialism and atheism declines, more and more scientists believe that religion is so essential it cannot be abandoned. Mankind will not be able to achieve happiness without... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

Peter J. Alister

5396

Birds and aeroplanes

Flying techniques depend on the principles of aerodynamics. Reducing air pressure and friction against body and wings requires perfect aerodynamic structure. Many years ago scientists found that rain ... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

Muhammed Cetin

4840

Profound compassion

To consider the good, the welfare and happiness of others and to prefer them above one’s own, to feel compassion for their misfortunes as if they were one’s own, to take on the responsibility for the ... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

O. Ergi

4880

From the Blue to the Red Planet

A question that must at some time cross the mind of every intelligent human being, does this tiny planet (earth) in the solar system - which is a dot in the galaxy itself - contain the only life form ... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

Fethullah Gülen

5175

Rise Up, O Valiant One

Rise up, valiant one, stop sleeping! Rise up, because my heart is lamenting… During the days having passed without you, I went back over the yesterdays, Grieving all the while, and saddened Since... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

7956

Containing five comments with respect to man's happiness and misery

Man is created on the best pattern of creation and has been given a comprehensive disposition. Therefore he has been sent to an arena of trial where he will either ascend or descend to a station which... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

K. Aydin

7250

Travel writers and their oriental women

After the period of the Crusades, a more direct and close encounter took place in the 19th century when, for political, economic and cultural reasons, the West invaded the East. In the 19th century, p... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

K. Baslar

5641

The stewardship ethic: A feasible solution for ecological crises

The reason that new and modified legislation to protect the environment fails to deal with the increasing number of global environmental crises is that legislation alone cannot address the root of wha... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

M. F. Sahin

16186

The reasons behind the several marriages of the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace

Some critics of Islam, either because they are not aware of the facts about the marriages of the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace, or because they are not honest and objective about those facts, ha... read more..

04-01-1993

Issue 2 (April - June 1993)

Dr. S. E. Konuk

4951

A compassionate subtlety in nature

The idea that plants produce some animal hormones sounds like science-fiction, especially when you consider how different the hormone system is in plants and animals. Animals produce hormones in spec... read more..

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Fountain Archive

Compassion

Water for life

Western presentation of the Ottoman Turks

God, His Essence And Attributes

Our common environment

Islamic Perpective on Knowledge and Learning

Come-back for a traditional remedy?

In His Way

The Necessity of Religion

If I hadn't met them

Wudu: a prescription for good health

Sinan, the Architect

Regrets About Science and Technology

The Relationship Between

Editorial

Hope

Is technology a common heritage of all mankind?

Individualism and Solitude

Water and Vitality

The end of Russian genocide

Biology and Religion

Birds and aeroplanes

Profound compassion

From the Blue to the Red Planet

Rise Up, O Valiant One

Containing five comments with respect to man's happiness and misery

Travel writers and their oriental women

The stewardship ethic: A feasible solution for ecological crises

The reasons behind the several marriages of the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace

A compassionate subtlety in nature

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