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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
M. Fethullah Gulen
10807
Free Will
Having free will-which we can briefly describe as the power or inclination to make a decision whether to do something or not-is a distinctive element of being human and is the very essential of ethica
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
H. Aydin
7809
What Makes the Planets Revolve around the Sun?
The Sun consists of three parts: the interior, the outer layer, and the solar atmosphere. The outer layer of the Sun is similar to the boundary that exists between the Earth and its atmosphere. The co
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Rahila Bashir
14917
How Can We Motivate Our Children To Learn?
How often do we hear the words “I hate maths” or “I don’t want to do my homework” and “I don’t like school.” Just imagine how a carer or parent who is concerned and exerts a great deal of time and eff
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Omer Said Gonullu
6429
Thoughts on Matter and Anti-Matter
We see a wall. It seems to be solid, made of one piece, as if it is covered with plaster. If we scrape off the plaster, we can see that the wall consists of hundreds of Stones (or bricks), proportiona
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Trish Madigan
9761
Learning from Islam
One has only to visit a place such as the Gallipoli Mosque at Auburn and receive the welcome and hospitality offered by the Muslim community to all comers to experience the rich contribution that Musl
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Murat Yasar
10080
The Protective Mechanism in Blood Vessels
The blood that is carried away from the heart to all the parts of the body by the cardiovascular system plays a vital role in delivering oxygen and nutrients to all the cells in the body. While the sm
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
M. Fethullah Gulen
9313
Firar and I'tisam (Fleeing and Taking Shelter)
Firar, which literally means to run away from something, is used in Sufism to denote the journey from the created to the Creator, sheltering from the “shadow” in the “original,”1 and renouncing the “d
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Muhammed Toprak
24036
Lessons from Nature
Scientists are always trying to find more effective ways of making high performance materials with minimum consumption of energy and resources, minimum waste production and, of course, maximum functio
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Firat Kocol
7707
Paper People
First came to realize my power to distinguish paper people in a formal talk at the university. The speaker was going to great lengths to present his seminal contribution to an age old question, and a
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Eren Tatari
8937
Attaining Knowledge of God
Every human being is endowed with an inquisitive nature; there is an innate quest to find answers to the existential questions: Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where will I go? Those who pursue
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
S. Utku Ay
6430
Hearing for Deaf Ears
The order, ingenuity, and simultaneous complexity and simplicity of the human organs are simply marvelous. The wonder one feels only increases when the organ for hearing, the ear, is examined. Not onl
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Muhsin Toprak
8912
Islam and Work
A person is not a machine that can remain indifferent to their surroundings. It is a duty for every person to work for their parents and relatives if they are a child or for their children if they are
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Abdullah Aymaz
27042
Gratitude to the Ottomans
The Treaty of Lausanne, signed in 1923 between the allied powers and the Turks in the aftermath of World War I, still prevails on the Turkish agenda. While on the one hand, some celebrate this treaty,
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10-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
Hikmet Isik
9912
The Month of Ramadan and Discipline
Question: What benefits can the month of Ramadan provide for us to become disciplined people? What good habits should we develop during this month? Discipline means the directions and prohibitions, a
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
M. Fethullah Gulen
11865
Speech and Power of Expression
The most precious of values inherited from our ancestors, speech does not consist only of clarity of meaning, the sound of words, or the expression of certain intentions. It also gives voice to our
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Osman Cakmak
7581
Writing with Atoms
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that the art and wisdom of small things are easier to make than those which are big in size. Said Nursi reveals how baseless such an assumption is with an exa
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Igor Sulgin
7964
God, the Sun, and the Plant
Have you ever wondered why plants are green? K.A. Timiryazev, a prominent Russian scientist, answered this question first in 1888. In his book, The Sun, Life, and Chlorophyll, Timiryazev argued that g
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Kursat Oz
13280
Rhetoric-An Eloquent Invention: Two Examples from the Present Time
Rhetoric is traditionally defined in literature as the “verbal art” of speaking and writing effectively. In our daily life people perceive a rhetorician as a skilled person who can convince an audienc
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Ayse K. Coskun
8917
A Cry of Desperation Are We Listening?
27, black, living in South Africa, and HIV positive; this is no longer a shocking matter. It has become like getting flu, only deadlier. I never thought I’d make it. But one thing that kept me going w
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Taha Abdel Rahman
9568
The Disconnection between Philosophy and Qur'anic Wisdom
Abstract, rational inquiry does not permit a combination between philosophy and religious wisdom1 and rules that such is impossible. Actual reality does not support such a combination either. Said Nur
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Seth Mette
9219
A Saturday Unlike Others
Many of us either heard about or read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. The hero of the story sets out on a journey that will take him to several planets on which he meets people who are
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
M. Fethullah Gulen
8831
Tafakkur (Reflection)
Tafakkur literally means to think on a subject deeply, systematically, and in great detail. In this context, it signifies reflection, which is the heart’s lamp, the soul’s food, the spirit of knowledg
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Esref Sami
7315
A Tale of Design and Love
The value of the iron (or any other material) from which a work of art is made differs from the value of the art expressed in it. Sometimes they may have the same value, or the art’s worth may be far
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Victor H. Earnest
8776
The Aftermath of Love
How sad, how poor; we are eaten up by the chase. Hurtled all around, we sob and rustle As if we resemble winnowed leaves Since life path tramples our heart castle. Wondering the yonder of the shad
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
Salih Uslu
17255
The Relationship between Physical Cleanliness and Moral Purity
Cleanliness is virtue shared by all people and societies. Physical cleanliness and moral purity are highly encouraged by religions, particularly before the commencement of religious ceremonies, sugges
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
S. Utku Ay
8853
Camera Chips: Mimicking the Human Eye?
One day an optometrist was talking to his profoundly-blind patient about the possibility of an eye implant that would give him 16 (4x4) pixels of visual information. The patient then told the doctor “
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
The Fountain
10651
Rethinking Islamic Philosophy and Theology
There are not many scholars interested in Islamic philosophy and theology in the West. Despite this fact, there has been an increasing interest in that area among young scholars. One of the factors be
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07-01-2007
Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
The Fountain
5757
Questions and Answers
Question: Materialism, upon which Marxism is based, alleges that the idea of God was derived from the ignorance of ancient men and suggested that the existence of God is not scientifically provable. W
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07-01-2007
Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
The Fountain
9815
Key to the Secret Codes
In all of existence the human being stands out with one major quality: free will. Together with many other superior qualities, like speech and intellect, humans were also blessed with this priceless c
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04-01-2007
Issue 58 (April - June 2007)
M. Fethullah Gulen
10212
The World in the Womb
In the recent past, the Islamic world as a whole has lived through its most depressed periods, whether considered from the point of view of faith, morality, modes of thought, education, industry, cust
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