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Four questions that each panelist is asked to respond: |81. What is your definition of morality? What are your motivations? 2. How do we go about moral reasoning if we are faced with a dilemma? 3. How do you translate your understanding of morality into your daily life? 4. Is there a universal morality (is […]

ALHAMDULİLLAH İS the opening phrase of the opening chapter of the Quran. Thus, Quran’s teaching starts with this phrase. It is so significant that it needs to be studied in depth and paid utmost attention. In Isarat’ul I’jaz, Said Nursi starts by asserting that if we want to be educated by the Quran, we have […]

MY SON runs around the living room playing ball with his older sister. Full of joy, energy and life. The way a child should be. Not a care in the world. Feeling safe and secure in his knowledge that all he need do is ask or cry for his food, a nap or a comforting […]

I BELİEVE that one of the plainest and the clearest judgment as regards to the modern times was done by an Anatolian brave who is from one point of view rebel and from other one a hero. As far as I am concerned, Köroğlu’s remark “As the riffle was invented, manliness spoiled” in fact, interprets […]

IF I were asked what the highest blessing after the belief was, my answer would be ‘offering something to someone’. My pleasure from making someone wear is bigger than that of wearing. For every person who does not have drowned his heart in the narrow streets of the meanness, the case should be the same. […]

WHEN WE look back over the noteworthy events of the 23 years during which the Qur’an was revealed, we find the resistance of the Mushriks (or polytheists) to be utterly senseless and meaningless. This is how it seems, for both the reality of the message of Tawheed that finds expression in ‘La ilaha illallah Muhammedun […]

The extistance of a calendar as Hijri Calendar (which starts with the Hijrah) is by itself enough to show the importance of the migration of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) from Makkah to Madinah. The twelve-day hijrah of Hazrat Muhammad which took place in the thirteenth year of Islam is indeed such an important milestone in history […]

Metin Karabaşoğlu (Translated by Muhammed Şeviker) THE ARDUOUS trial that has loomed over the country like a nightmare for three weeks, in many respects, was instructive. What we live through, with regards to people that believe in the Omnipotent One of Glory who brings forth the liv-ing from the dead, the luminousness from the darkness, […]

Metin Karabaşoğlu (translated by Muhammed Şeviker) BEDİUZZAMAN SAİD Nursi, in the 25th Word that he assigned to the miraculousness of the Qur’an, having summarized the fundamental confrontation points between Qur’anic civilization and the Western civilisation with an extraordinary clearness four case comparisons which, directly get in touch with the daily life. It is highly significant […]

Metin Karabaşoğlu (Translated by Muhammed Şeviker) PARTİCULARLY İN the end of time circumstances, there is a concern that frequently expressed by faithful parents. The analyses beginning from that the age is wicked, and increasingly getting wickeder, extend into the point that the parents should decisively protect their children; otherwise, they go astray from religion easily. […]