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Searching for Our Souls
01 November 2020 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 138 (Nov - Dec 2020)
Our modern society has gone astray during much of the past several centuries. While every person is in pursuit of one thing or another, we are sear...
Facing Oneself - 5
01 September 2020 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 137 (Sep - Oct 2020)
The Example of the First Circle Around the Prophet and Those Who Followed Them Uways al-Qarani – an illustrious personage so assiduous at faith an...
Facing Oneself - 4
01 July 2020 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 136 (Jul - Aug 2020)
Continued from the previous issue. Such a saintly figure, Zayn al-Abidin always lowered his head humbly at the doorstep of Divine beneficence, the...
Facing Oneself - 3
01 May 2020 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 135 (May - Jun 2020)
(Circle3: On the touchy implorations by Imam Zeynel Abidin, continued) Together with all of the fears and worries that this saintly person voices ...
Facing Oneself-2
01 March 2020 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 134 (Mar - Apr 2020)
The Example of the First Circle around the Prophet and Those Who Followed Them (continuing from the previous issue) Zayn al-Abidin (659-713), th...
Facing Oneself
01 January 2020 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 133 (Jan - Feb 2020)
The Example of the First Circle around the Prophet and Those Who Followed Them So much so a source of blessings was the Prophet Muhammad, acco...
So Others May Live
01 November 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 132 (Nov - Dec 2019)
The real, profound worth of life is revealed when one’s life is dedicated to the well-being of humanity. It thus gains an otherworldly dimension an...
Inner Decay and Ways to Heal
21 October 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 131 (Sep - Oct 2019)
There is anticipation in the air. People from all walks of life are vigilant, waiting for a ray of light to shine upon them. Their eyes are fixed o...
I Pity...
01 July 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 130 (July - Aug 2019)
The feeling of pity is the quiver of a person’s heartstrings and spirit, a quiver that resonates from a sincere sense of compassion deep in one’s s...
Paranoia
01 May 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 129 (May - Jun 2019)
Paranoia is a chronic spiritual illness that disrupts a person’s ability for reasoning, balanced thinking, and judgment. Paranoia is a symptom of p...
Years of Heedlessness
01 March 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
Heedlessness means abstraction, carelessness, and not being oneself. The heedless persons are uninformed about what is going on around them; they a...
Dawn upon Dawn – Once upon a Time
06 January 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 126 (Nov - Dec 2018)
In an era when many parts of the world were defeated by darkness, our horizon was everywhere emblazoned with colors, and the festivals of dawn came...
Broken Dream
01 January 2019 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
There was once a time when we enjoyed mutual love and respect. We had started to relate to one another. That was when everything looked different a...
The Dynamics of a Changing World
15 October 2018 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 125 (Sep - Oct 2018)
Today’s generations will leave aside their material, and even spiritual, expectations by sacrificing their own whims and desires, choosing to liv...
Bitter Truths and Hopes
12 September 2018 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 124 (July - Aug 2018)
Thus far in time, and across different parts of the world, we have witnessed desires to realize a great many disparate notions of freedom, fraterni...
Poisoning of Spirit
08 July 2018 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 123 (May - June 2018)
The spirit constitutes human's deepest otherworldly aspect, which is open to the heavenly realms. It is like a mysterious wing that helps one remai...
Chaos, Trial and Hope
24 April 2018 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 122 (March - April 2018)
Today events are being evaluated only in respect to their appearances; there is constant fear, worry, anxiety, and a chilling uncertainty about eve...
To Remain Fresh and Strive for Renewal
01 January 2018 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 121 (January - February 2018)
Relying upon the air, sun, water, and soil, a seed sprouts and eventually becomes a bud. Soon, this bud has become a full plant with grain-bearing ...
The Turkey I No Longer Know
01 November 2017 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Special Issue 2017
The Turkey that I once knew as a hope-inspiring country on its way to consolidating its democracy and a moderate form of secularism has become the ...
Perhaps One Day We, Too, Will Be Revived
01 November 2017 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 120 (November - December 2017)
In our gloomy lands, we have waited years for a breeze of revival, expecting the momentous sound of a resurrecting trumpet. Though we hope God will...
Souls Devoted to the Path of Truth
01 September 2017 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 119 (September - October 2017)
Devoting oneself to communicating the truth is an expression of humanity’s privilege of having “the perfect pattern” in creation; it is an unparall...
The Travelers of Light
01 July 2017 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 118 (July - August 2017)
The travelers of light have always endeavored to surpass mere corporeality. Their attitude has always manifested in a determination to bid farewell...
Another Eclipse Is Over
01 May 2017 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 117 (May - June 2017)
Never despair, keep your willpower alive If you can, be a source of hope for all Our society is currently being challenged by a spiral of prob...
Being on the Way: A Bouquet of Thoughts on the Path to the Divine
01 March 2017 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 116 (March - April 2017)
If these guides happen to be the experienced, knowledgeable, and conscientious masters of that field, then, without any hesitation, one should foll...
“Let Us Speak with Our Hearts,” We Said
01 November 2016 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 114 (November - December 2016)
There are many concealed paths connecting all of our hearts. As every individual continues on their life journey, they will experience solidarity w...
Hearts Are Seeking Love
01 September 2016 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 113 (September - October 2016)
We live in a time of strife between the old and the new schools of thought. The old school failed to renew itself. The new school consumed itself w...
Despair and Heroes
01 July 2016 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 112 (July - August 2016)
Much as it is in the rest of today’s world, depression and crises are interwoven into our society: crisis of belief, crisis of thought, crisis of c...
Freedom of Faith and Conscience
01 May 2016 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 111 (May - June 2016)
The freedom of faith and conscience is, to put it briefly, the universal right to independently adopt and practice a faith of one’s choice. This ri...
A Self-Interrogation
01 January 2016 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 109 (January -February 2016)
O ego! Escape the feeling of autumn and transform into a green meadow with birds flying around above you; be a spring so all those with burning so...
Muslims Must Combat the Extremist Cancer
01 November 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 108 (November - December 2015)
As the group that calls itself Islamic State, known as ISIS, continues to produce carnage in the Middle East, Muslims must confront the totalitaria...
The Human Being and Endless Blessings
01 September 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 107 (September - October 2015)
Every moment in life is composed of certain opportunities to obtain new treasures. It is up to every person to take advantage of these opportunitie...
A New Existence
01 July 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 106 (July - August 2015)
Each individual owes his or her success and happiness to the peace and the trustworthiness of their society. Conversely, each society owes its heal...
Building a Society of Noble Ideals
01 May 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 105 (May - June 2015)
The humans of this age have been victimized by a lack of idealism. Sometimes, in addition to lacking idealism, these individuals ignored their self...
The Predicament of Ignorance
01 March 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)
In a time of darkness and ignorance, we must challenge our preconceived notions, seeking answers in education and trust. It is another season ...
Faithfulness
01 January 2015 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 103 (January - February 2015)
Faithfulness and fidelity are the hallmarks of societies that are committed to living and working together for a higher good. Fidelity or fait...
Right vs. Might
01 November 2014 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 102 (November - December 2014)
In a world where right is equated with might, we must learn that what is truly right is pursuing basic human rights and dignity for all. The h...
Our Inner Crises
01 September 2014 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 101 (September - October 2014)
Masses who have developed with different thoughts and objectives that are in conflict, and who have been deprived of positive cultivation, they f...
The Sacred Suffering
01 July 2014 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 100 (July - August 2014)
The human is a lone traveler in this world; we are obliged to travel for the sake of finding ourselves and to attain our essence on a long path wit...
Laborers of Thought, Building the Future
01 May 2014 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 99 (May - June 2014)
Those who will shape tomorrow with their ideas will be the guides of generations to come. The way they think and reason will redesign the world, an...
The Power in Prayer and Supplication
01 March 2014 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 98 (March - April 2014)
When the clean black shroud of night enfolds our entire existence, certain darkened souls feel lonely and detached from everything. Yet in the dark...
Holy Days
01 January 2014 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 97 (January - February 2014)
On holy days, we reflect on the joyous past and the beautiful future yet to come.When the sun rises over our land,only then will it be our holy d...
Forlorn Ones
01 November 2013 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 96 (November - December 2013)
"You are a forlorn one in this worldErgo laugh not but cry o heart!" (Yunus Emre) Forlorn ones are only a few; a few heroes of the heart, and ...
Happiness and Virtue: A Prophetic Example
01 September 2013 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 95 (September - October 2013)
Happiness is an ideal for which everybody longs. People endure all kinds of sacrifice for its sake. But what exactly is happiness? Is this questi...
The Enigma of Time
01 July 2013 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 94 (July - August 2013)
Under no circumstances can it be said that any nation possesses a greater authority than others with respect to physical power or spiritual values....
Souls of Immortality
01 May 2013 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 93 (May - June 2013)
Immortal souls always preserve their vitality, and in every season, they show a different sign of life. They never wither or fade away; they never ...
The Test
01 March 2013 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 92 (March - April 2013)
Life is a chain of tests, ensuing one after another. It is a human condition we experience from childhood until the moment we breathe our last. For...
The Heart
01 January 2013 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 91 (January - February 2013)
Love is like Solomon, Borne aloft on the heart, its throne.[1] The heart is humanity’s most essential feature and its greatest treasure. It ...
Science
01 November 2012 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 90 (November - December 2012)
Today, scientific developments have reached unparalleled speed and level as we stumble upon a new surprising invention or discovery every day. It c...
What Generations Expect from Education
01 September 2012 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 89 (September - October 2012)
What do we mean when we mention education and training in relation to our current and future generations? How should we teach our values to new gen...
Dignifying Humanity
01 July 2012 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 88 (July - August 2012)
Your essence is even loftier than angels.Hidden in you are spheres and compacted globesMehmed Akif The human is the main subject of every phil...
What It Means to Be Human
01 May 2012 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 87 (May - June 2012)
My friend, shut the doors of your feelings, thoughts, and heart against every kind of evil as long as you exist. Always seek the best, the most bea...
Love for Truth
01 March 2012 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 86 (March - April 2012)
Truth means the essence and reality of a thing. It is to know clearly what a thing is, what it means, and what it signifies beyond its appearance a...
Virtue and Happiness
01 January 2012 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 85 (January - February 2012)
Those who promise happiness to people must equip them with virtues first. Happiness is out of reach for those whose hearts have not been saturated ...
Humanity: Our Unique Dimensions
01 November 2011 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 84 (November - December 2011)
"I am a lowly creature" you say O man Only if you knew..." M. Akif The human is unique. We are self-conscious and can exercise self-control. I...
Believers as They Stand Before God
01 September 2011 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 83 (September - October 2011)
The believer is one who believes and trusts, one with prospects for a secure future who is trustworthy to others. S/he is a monumental figure marke...
The Truth, Rights, and More
01 July 2011 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 82 (July - August 2011)
The Truth is one of the beautiful of names of the Divine, al-Haqq, which is linguistically both an infinitive and an adjective. Some of the meaning...
An Ardent Prayer
01 May 2011 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 81 (May - June 2011)
The Almighty Creator is He whose existence is the origin of all existence, whose might is the source of power for everything, and whose will is the...
In Between Contrasts
01 March 2011 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 80 (March - April 2011)
Year in and year out, as a community we have been concurrently going around the “vicious” and “virtuous” circles of an assortment of strange occurr...
Dreamy World of the Past
01 January 2011 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 79 (January - February 2011)
The grace and flavor of our legendary glorious past does no longer exist in a great many people and in most of the places. Just like our thoughts a...
A Movement Originating Its Own Models
01 November 2010 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 78 (November - December 2010)
In this article I would like to discuss a legend; to talk about it is a duty, and therefore it is difficult to put it into words. However, I wonder...
Reflourishing Thoughts
01 September 2010 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 77 (September - October 2010)
In the course of history, the sequence of events periodically recurs-just like the day alternates with the night-over and over again but with just ...
The Inner Dimension of Existence
01 July 2010 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 76 (July - August 2010)
The inner dimension of existence, for those who are open to it, is never a fantasy, a dream, an illusion or a delirium, but instead a phenomenon an...
Chaos and the Mystical World of Faith
01 May 2010 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 75 (May - June 2010)
Today, everyone breathes resentment, swallows hatred, curses all that is deemed to be an enemy with a fixed and determined passion, as if programme...
The Power of Literature
01 March 2010 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 74 (March - April 2010)
In the most general sense, literature is a discipline that studies elegant, measured, and harmonious words uttered or written in verse or prose in ...
Fleeting Storms, Perennial Breezes
01 January 2010 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 73 (January - February 2010)
Despite all odds, time seems to flow toward long awaited days of splendor and hours of bliss. Albeit, there is a shadowy presence of ominous days w...
Our World and Its Inherently Exquisite Mystery
01 November 2009 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 72 (November - December 2009)
Despite blurred realities, many fair-minded thinkers still regard our “world” as a center of attraction. Personally, it would not be an exaggeratio...
Cries of Silence
01 September 2009 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 71 (September - October 2009)
For many years now, cries of silence have clamored above my voice. So many times have I been frustrated to the point that I was going to condemn th...
Believers Do Not Fall... No Matter How Shaken They May Be
01 July 2009 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 70 (July - August 2009)
Do not, then, be faint of heart, nor grieve, for you are always the superior side, if you are (true) believers. (Qur’an, 3:139) The situation ...
Satan and His Contemporary Followers
01 May 2009 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 69 (May - June 2009)
Satan is a miserable and accursed one, who has fallen away from God’s Mercy, whose task is to go astray and to lead astray, who continues his exist...
Towards Spelling Out Our Own Line of Thought
01 March 2009 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 68 (March - April 2009)
In the past, “Islam” used to come into our people’s minds first as far as “religion” was concerned, and it would resonate with wonder in their cons...
Days of Depression and Our Atlas of Hope
01 January 2009 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 67 (January - February 2009)
Today, almost everybody speaks about "material welfare and comfort," without seeing any values other than these, or rather without wanting to see t...
A Dream Worth The Entire World
01 November 2008 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 66 (November - December 2008)
Others may think differently; but for me our world is so charming with its exquisite climate, landscape, mountains and rivers, orchards, prairies, ...
From Bright Yesterday to Bright Tomorrows
01 September 2008 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 65 (September - October 2008)
For centuries we have enjoyed commitment to a belief in eternity, and the atmosphere we inhaled every moment was filled with eternal considerations...
Longing for Love
01 July 2008 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 64 (July - August 2008)
It seems that we have forgotten how to act like human beings. We are far removed from representing our unique status among all of existence. Despit...
Compassion
01 May 2008 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 63 (May - June 2008)
Today, the entire globe but especially certain parts of the world are passing through a critical turn, which is more dangerous than ever. The destr...
The Souls Besieged by a Life of Transience
01 March 2008 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 62 (March - April 2008)
Those who perceive the world solely in terms of its transitory face and physical constraints can be seen, in spite of the breadth of the human cons...
Language and Thought
01 January 2008 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 61 (January - February 2008)
Language is one of the fundamental dynamics in the composition of a culture. The power of a nation is directly proportional to the power and richne...
Free Will
01 October 2007 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 60 (October - December 2007)
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 eleme...
Speech and Power of Expression
01 July 2007 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 59 (July - September 2007)
The most precious of values inherited from our ancestors, speech does not consist only of clarity of meaning, the sound of words, or the expressi...
The World in the Womb
01 April 2007 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 58 (April - June 2007)
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, ...
An Extensive Wish in the View of Historical Recurrences
01 January 2007 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 57 (January - March 2007)
WATERFALLS OF ASSISTANCE AND EFFORT GURGLE IN THE BED OF DIVINEBLESSINGS; THEY PASS OVER OR BYPASS ANY OBSTRUCTION THEY FACE ANDTHEY TRY TO REPRESE...
Tolerance
01 October 2006 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 56 (October - December 2006)
We are experiencing an intense fervor of recovery and revival. If a wind of opposition does not hinder us, the coming years will be our “years of b...
On the Holy Qur'an and Its Interpretation
01 July 2006 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 55 (July - September 2006)
The Qur’an is God’s miraculous, matchless message that has been sent to all humanity via His last Messenger. With the Qur’an God has shown humanity...
The Portrait of People of Heart
01 April 2006 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 54 (April - June 2006)
With their vision, faith, and deeds, people of heart are integrated heroes of spirituality. Their profundity relies not on their knowledge or acqui...
Respect For Humankind
01 January 2006 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 53 (January - March 2006)
Loving and respecting humanity merely because they are human is an expression of respect for the Almighty Creator. The other side of the coin, lovi...
The Inner Profundity of Humankind
01 October 2005 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 52 (October - December 2005)
The human being is the essence and the vital element of being, the index and core element of the universe. Human beings are at the center of creati...
A Sacred Phase of Time: The Blessed Three Months
01 July 2005 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 51 (July - September 2005)
The blessed three months are Rajab, Sha’ban, and Ramadan (the seventh, eighth, and ninth months) in the Islamic hijri calendar1; these months are d...
A Tribute to Mothers
01 April 2005 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 50 (April - June 2005)
A mother is a blessed saintly being in her own world. The Ka‘ba is the spirit, meaning, essence, and atlas of the entire reality of the universe; M...
Beauty and the Beautiful
01 January 2005 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 49 (January - March 2005)
Beauty elevates our hearts, awakens our souls with sweet excitement and appreciation, and then becomes the esthetic of our inner self. This hard-to...
Jalaladdin al - Rumi
01 July 2004 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 47 (July - September 2004)
There are some significant personalities who with the help of their voice and breath, their love and excitement, and their promise for humanity alw...
The World and its Contents from the PERSPECTIVE OF A BELIEVER
01 July 2004 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 48 (October - December 2004)
This world is a wonderful vessel for humankind, floating in this vast universe, the place that we exist and feel our existence. It is also a warm d...
Love for Humankind
01 April 2004 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)
Love is an elixir; a human lives with love, is made happy by love and makes those around him or her happy with love. In the vocabulary of humanity,...
The Month Overflowing With Mercy
01 October 2003 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 44 (October - December 2003)
There is no month but Ramadan that can sail by with relentless joy, everlasting pleasure and never fading love. Presenting the spirit, essence, and...
Toward Tomorrow
01 July 2003 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 43 (July - September 2003)
The Islamic world continues to squirm in the vicious grasp of error, unable to turn to its own spirit and essence for succor. Two steps forward lea...
Time To Pray
01 April 2003 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 42 (April - June 2003)
We use prayer to turn to the Eternally Merciful God, present ourselves to Him, and ask Him to meet all of our needs. We entreat Him humbly and subm...
Humanity, Science, and Globalization
01 January 2003 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 41 (January - March 2003)
Existence, which exists solely for humanity, was created in order to bear fruit for all people. Earth was decorated for humanity, just as the sky s...
Universal Mercy and Education
01 July 2002 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 40 (October - December 2002)
The adage nowadays is that we all need love. So many people are talking about this. Islam teaches us that God's act of creating humanity was an act...
Terror From an Islamic Prospect
01 April 2002 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 39 (July - September 2002)
The word Islam is derived from silm and selamet, which mean submission, salvation, providing trustworthiness, and peace. Innumerable arguments in Q...
What We Expect from the Righteous Generation...
01 January 2002 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 38 (April - June 2002)
The first and most important criteria of righteousness is perfect faith. The Qur'an determines the purpose of humanity's creation as belief in God,...
The Necessity of Reflection and Self-Criticism
01 October 2001 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 36 (October - December 2001)
Our first and foremost duty is to discover ourselves and then turn toward God through the illuminated prism of our nature. People who remain unawar...
Civilization and the Confusion of Conceptions
01 April 2001 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 34 (April - June 2001)
Traditionally, civilization has been defined as the coexistence of people who come together around humanistic thoughts and feelings, and who are co...
Forgiveness
01 April 2000 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 30 (April - June 2000)
Men and women are creatures with faults as well as exceptional qualities. No other living creature carries such inborn opposites. Only humanity has...
Being Shaped by Ramadan
01 January 1999 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 25 (January - March 1999)
At this time when we experience occasions, of much sorrow and some contentment, we sense the promise in the advent of Ramadan, the month of mercy a...
What the World Will Look Like After Turmoil and Chaos Disappear
01 January 1999 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 26 (April - June 1999)
The world’s population, which has been suffering crisis after crisis during the last three centuries, is being drawn into a new type of turmoil. Pe...
Speech
01 July 1998 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 24 (October - December 1998)
Creation began with a syllable of speech made up of two letters, namely Be. The roads leading from unity to multiplicity, from single to plural, ap...
The Undiscovered Greatness Of Our World
01 April 1998 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 23 (July - September 1998)
For those who have attained the happiness of knowing this world from within faith, hope and an experience of the realms beyond this world, there is...
Freedom
01 January 1998 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 22 (April - June 1998)
The urge for freedom is innate in man. In his pursuit or expression of it, man has the option to discover himself as a responsible being with free ...
Abuse of Religion and Religious Sentiments
01 October 1997 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 21 (January - March 1998)
The quest for truth has two principal branches which, if the quest is motivated by sincere love of the truth sought, are radically joined - that is...
The Horizon Of Hope: Spiritual Or Metaphysical Thought
01 July 1997 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 20 (October - December 1997)
The modern Western world-view is said to be founded almost entirely on materialistic notions excluding, even denying, the spiritual or metaphysical...
Light to be Seen in Chaos
01 April 1997 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 19 (July - September 1997)
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 ...
The Madness of Power for Its Own Sake
01 January 1997 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 18 (April - June 1997)
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 ...
The Concept of Science
01 October 1996 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 17 (January - March 1997)
Flowing to the future like a rapid flood full of energy and vitality, and sometimes resembling a dazzling garden, the natural world is like a book ...
For The Conquest And Dominion Of The Hearts
01 July 1996 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 16 (October - December 1996)
Over the last few centuries mankind have suffered hardships after hardships, travelling around pits of ‘death’. Their struggles for deliverance and...
The Nature We Have Destroyed
01 April 1996 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 15 (July - September 1996)
Nature is, in its particulars and as a whose, an exhibition of Divine miracles. However, rather than call it an exhibition, we prefer to call it a ...
The Irresistible Power of Religion
01 January 1996 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 14 (April - June 1996)
In whatever way the world changes, however advanced sciences and technology are, and whatever changes take place in ways of thinking, the feeling o...
Action And Thought
01 October 1995 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 13 (January - March 1996)
The line of struggle followed by the righteous people to whom God promised the future of the world may be summed up in two words: action and though...
The New Man
01 July 1995 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 11 (July - September 1995)
Within the movement of history we have been carried to the threshold of a new age open to the manifestations of Divine favour. Despite (or in paral...
The Horizon Of Hope
01 July 1995 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 12 (October - December 1995)
With strong conviction and high hope, poised to move forward; with firm resolve, our will ready as a taut bow-string is ready in sweet imagination ...
The Age Of Speed
04 January 1995 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 10 (April - June 1995)
This age could certainly be called an age of speed. With the technology of speed, the world promises many diverse benefits to mankind. It brings pr...
The Awaited Generation
01 January 1995 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 9 (January - March 1995)
We have long been awaiting a generation, with hearts as pure and kind as angels, with will-power strong enough to overcome the most formidable obst...
Sacred Emigration
10 January 1994 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 8 (October - December 1994)
Emigration is an important phenomenon in human history. Besides its general relevance to the establishment of civilizations, it has special signifi...
Religious Festivals
07 January 1994 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 7 (July - September 1994)
Almost every nation has religious festivals to commemorate important events in their history or to celebrate special occasions. There are two reli...
Love
04 January 1994 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 6 (April - June 1994)
Love is the most essential element in every being, and it is a most radiant light and a greatest power which can resist and overcome every force. L...
Decline and Fall: The Loss of Spiritual Energy
01 January 1994 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 5 (January - March 1994)
We used to have a magnificent civilization founded on faith, resolution, altruism and valour. The dark world of Europe’s Middle Ages was illumined ...
Self-Renewal
10 January 1993 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 4 (October - December 1993)
Self-renewal is the first condition of survival. Those who cannot renew themselves when necessary face annihilation sooner or later, no matter how ...
The Saviour Awaited By Our Generation
07 January 1993 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 3 (July - September 1993)
Our young people are living in and through a most distressing period. The neglect of past centuries has brought us to the calamities we are experie...
Hope
04 January 1993 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 2 (April - June 1993)
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 ...
Compassion
01 January 1993 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 1 (January - March 1993)
Compassion is the beginning of being, without it everything is chaos. Everything has come into existence through compassion and by compassion it co...
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