Social Capital: An Important Power Resource For National Progress
Each nation or community has the desire and potential to establish a civilization on its own land, one…
Issue 43 (July - September 2003)
17 articles
The Amazing Olive
People pay attention to other people or things according to the degree of their importance. Thus, if the…
Transforming Hardship into Mercy
In His name, be He glorified! Prisoners, especially those who are young, need the Risale-i Nur as much…
Self-inflation or Self-improvement?
A Different Approach to Self-improvement (By M.Fethullah GULEN…) In our contemporary world, our self and our ego have…
Painless Love
Love is an innate human trait. To love and to be loved are among the most basic human…
Spiritual Absence and Suicide
My heart misses a beat every time an ambulance pulls up in front of our hospital, tearing the…
How Much Water Should We Drink?
Ancient thinkers thought that existence came from four basic elements: water, earth, fire and air. Today, although we…
Guidelines for Christian-Muslim Dialog
Since 9/11, no one can doubt the urgency of our need to understand the Islamic world. But even…
Islam and Globalization
The relationship between Islam and globalization has been open to much interpretation and acrimonious debate. At the crux…
Living in the Shade of Islam
Ismail BuyukcelebiThe Fountain, 2003, Paper Back, 422 pages, ISBN 1-932099-21-2 At a time when there is a vast…
Why are there differences between Muslims?
Q: You say that Islam is a religion of unity, but we see differences – sometimes major differences…
Toward Tomorrow
The Islamic world continues to squirm in the vicious grasp of error, unable to turn to its own…
Nanotechnology
Islam encourages the use of science and the scientific method. Acquiring knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim, male…
Islamic Gardens: Growing Cosmological Ideals
If a random group of people were asked about their concept of heaven, it is likely that a…
The Search for Gravitational Waves
Gravitational waves released from cataclysmic events in our galactic neighborhood are 40 orders of magnitude weaker than Coulomb…