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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Y. Cerci
4428
Energy Saving With Skylights
In our homes we use electric lights only until the sun is high enough; the sun’s light is ‘free’ and we use it until the sun goes down, when we switch on the electric lights again. This is not what
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
R. Gulen
5857
The Problems of Today's Young
When the problems of the young are talked about, some turn away with indifference, supposing that many useless things already discussed many times before will be repeated. In their view, what should b
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Dr. M. Pakdemirli
4125
The Creation Process : An Engineer's Perspective
Engineers are mainly responsible for the highly regarded inventions of the last centuries that have made our daily lives easier. Nobody can deny the advantages of such technological wonders as planes,
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Dr. Osman Kucukmehmedoglu
5372
The Importance of Maternal Care
Almost all animals come into the world without need of long training or education to manage their lives. Whatever knowledge they need to do so is either ‘deposited’ in their being-modern materialis
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Ali Unal
3756
Man Between Fall And Ascension
Ibn Sina, called Avicenna in the West, summarizes man’s earthly life in his poem on the human soul as follows: It descended upon thee from out of the regions above, That exalted, ineffable, glorious
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
The Fountain
21101
The Door Half-Opened
What imaginations those coming to this world nourish! Imaginations as sweet as the joy felt at religious festivals! And yet the first step taken into the world is also the first step those who have
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
The Fountain
4468
Through Death
As for the believing souls, worship of God is a mount for them, by which they fly to the clime where angels fly. With hearts at rest, with spirits having reached their aspirations, They hear God’s
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
4124
Reflections on The Existence of The Creator
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. All praise be to the Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the master of the Messengers, and upon all his family arid Companions. Le
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Dr. Sedat Yildirim
6299
World Wide Corruption By Scientific Materialism
Materialism was born in the West in the middle of the 18th century. The British philosolopher Berkeley first used the term to mean an unjustified confidence in the existence of matter. The term lat
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Dr. S. Aksoy
6394
Abortion: Mercy or Murder
Abortion is the intentional destruction of the fetus in the womb, or any untimely delivery brought about with intend to cause the death of the fetus (Price, 1988). As is evident in the definition,
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
M. Fethullah Gulen
4810
Is there any truth in supranormal phenomena such as spiritualism and telepathy?
The spirit does not belong to this visible world. It issues from the world of unconditioned existence where Divine commands are carried out instantly without the mediation of causes. However, like ene
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Dr. Kenan Haspolat
13383
Nutrition in Classical Islamic Medical Sources
Malnutrition is not the result of only insufficient food. It can also result from too much of the wrong food and from too much of even the right food. Obesity caused by over-eating is injurious to hum
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01-01-1997
Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Y. Yilmaz
3587
Making a Difference
Harold Hilton is a history professor at a university in California, a knowledgeable and well-respected scholar in his field. Every summer vacation, he goes to visit a different historic site somewhere
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01-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
M. Fethullah Gulen
5586
The Madness of Power for Its Own Sake
Those who have the power and technological means to satisfy their greed and feelings of hate and vengeance, can bring about as much destruction in a single day as would have taken a century in the pas
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
Salih Adem
4586
What a Falling Stone Means
The laws of physics are mathematical expressions of how the universe operates. The events taking place in the universe and the relations between them and the laws ‘governing’ the universe have draw
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
Ali Unal
4065
The Perfectibility of Man
A book exists first of all in its author’s mind as meaning. To have this immaterially existing book known by others, the author must put it into words, shaped into sentences, organized into paragra
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
H. Baki
3592
Virtual Reality
Nobody remembers the day on which he was born. As he gets to know himself, he learns from his immediate physical environment, as also from his family, from the other people around him, and from the
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
Mahmud Al-hakem
3549
The World Wide Messianic Mission Attributed To Jesus Christ Toward the End of Time
Some of the first converts to Islam were subjected to the severest persecutions in Makka. They bore them patiently and never thought of retaliation, as the Qur’an ordered the Prophet Muhammad, upon
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
The Fountain
21671
The Rose Of My Heart
As I mentioned you again, nothing else remained in my memory; I imagined you travelling on the hills of my heart. A mirage, I know, but it sufficed to calm the anguish of my heart. As I mentioned y
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
4649
Arguments for The Existence and Unity of God
First argument Every thing, every being in existence displays God’s Unity as a most manifest truth. For example, of the innumerable arguments for His existence and Unity, consider life: He makes ever
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
F. Begum Cicek
3208
Die and Let Live or Life Through Death
What is more amazing than the human body of which we are the trustees? Right from conception to the last breath we draw, our bodies function without our deliberate aid. We know our bodies to be mo
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
K. Olgun
32348
Islam in Japan
A part from the natural hurdle of the sea which surrounds the islands of Japan, the spread of Islam into Japan was impeded by the occupation of nearby islands in south-east Asia by the Portuguese and
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
M. Fethullah Gulen
7347
Questions for Today
WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT THE TRUTH OF DREAMS? While you are in sleep, with your eyes closed, your ear deaf, your tongue mute and your arms and legs motionless, how do you travel your distances meet many
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04-01-1997
Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
F. B. Rahim
24580
The Unmaking of A Young Thief
A young man (let us call him Amjad) was walking home, head down, kicking stones on the path. He did not see people who knew him, coming the other way, nor responded to their greetings. His impulsiv
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04-01-1997
Issue 19 (July - September 1997)
M. Fethullah Gulen
5591
Light to be Seen in Chaos
The modern age in which we live, despite its many beauties and its promises to mankind, has been an age of suffering and despair for the oppressed peoples of the world. Those peoples, who did not have
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07-01-1997
Issue 19 (July - September 1997)
U. Akyuz
3160
Transgenic Technology and Religion
Nuclear transfer is used in mammals as both a tool for embryonic studies and as a method for the multiplication of ‘elite’ embryos. It involves transferring the complete genetic material (the DNA cont
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07-01-1997
Issue 19 (July - September 1997)
Bayram Yenikaya
3153
Mathematics is Real: Why and How?
It is said that on the door to Aristotle’s dwelling was written: ‘One who does not know mathematics cannot enter.’ I do not know whether this means that those who did not know mathematics would not be
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07-01-1997
Issue 19 (July - September 1997)
Dr. Hikmet A. Topcuoglu
23308
Air Pollution and its Effect on our World's Climate
It is a Divine rule that As you sow, so shall you reap. The effects of pollution are not always felt by those who create it, but instead are suffered by these downstream or, in the case of air polluti
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07-01-1997
Issue 19 (July - September 1997)
M. Fethullah Gulen
2631
Questions for Today
What is death and what does the spirit do after death? Man has an inborn feeling for eternity. Confined within this transient, material world, he always yearns for eternity. Whoever listens to the
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07-01-1997
Issue 19 (July - September 1997)
The Fountain
21269
Tears
Tears are poetry whose words are written in drops, expressing joy and grief, hope and despair. When consumed with pangs of separation, melting like candle, man breathes in tears and speaks in tears
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