The Wonderful Octopus
Taking its place among the world’s short-lived mollusks, the octopus is a fantastic sea animal with intelligent behavior.…
Issue 88 (July - August 2012)
21 articles
What do mosquitoes do when it’s raining?
What do mosquitoes do when it’s raining? Mosquitoes like climates with high humidity and rainfall. While a single…
A Present of The Presence Through Three Dripping Snow-cones
“I want to start fasting this year during the month of Ramadan” she said with a serious tone…
The Expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang: A Qur’anic Perspective
After Hubble announced the final results of his observations in 1929, physicists’ view of the universe began to…
Organized Industry in Cells: ER
An important characteristic of animate structures in the micro-pages of nature unseen by the naked eye is being…
Building Social Capital for Development: The Role of Religious Values and Virtues
This paper investigates the benefits that religious values and virtues can bring to bear on building social capital…
The Missing Piece: The New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Eight months have passed since the “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central…
Yaqin (Certainty)
Yaqin (certainty) means having no doubt about the truth of a matter and arriving at accurate, doubt-free knowledge…
All of Your Beautiful Names
O Allah I know You say There is no compulsion in religion But I don’t want this freedom…
… and a Rock Falls
I am watching the little tree illuminated by the sunlight penetrating through the other grown trees. Aside from…
The Breast Milk: A Wonderful Food for the Baby
Researches on the complex, multi-dimensional, and dynamic natured organisms reveal new findings and beauties pertaining to creation. Recent…
Thoughts on Science of Forecasting
Making predictions is an active form of decision-making people do all the time mostly without even being aware.…
The Butterfly Mosque: Building a Bridge
G. Willow Wilson openly states in her work, The Butterfly Mosque, “When videos of angry men in beards…
Exhibitions
Travel has never been easier than today, and growing numbers of passengers are filling airports and bus terminals…
Birth through Belly?
Considering the way human beings are born, some people believe that there can be a “fault” in the…