Adab: Education of One’s Ego – A Model for Gifted Education
Although some people deny the existence of super talents, rather seeing success as a result of extreme concentration…
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Modern Slavery: Global Trafficking in Human Beings
Each year thousands of people (men, women, and children) fall victim to the vicious and organized trafficking of…
Good and Evil in Islam
The relationship between good and evil has always intrigued people, and it is one of the central principles…
The Creation of Evil is not Evil: Nursi’s Theological Approach to the Existence of Evil
The recent tsunami and the devastation that it caused-the deaths of more than 300,000 people and the creation…
Trust: An Essential Emotion in Interpersonal Relations and Cooperation
George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak Company, took close-up photographs of wild animals in Africa with a…
Is there still a chance for me to be forgiven?
The following Hadith on repentance is narrated in the Hadith collections of both Bukhari and Muslim: Once there…
Love: the Reason for the Creation of the Universe
Said Nursi frames his treatise of the Twenty-Fourth Word in his collection of words on a well known…
A Rationale for Fiction
In one of the most comprehensive and intense novels ever written, Jorge Luis Borges launches his story with…
What are Information Sources in Religon?
Much has been said on the issue of information sources. Some of the people who have commented on…
Prayer An Inexhaustible Treasure for the Human Spirit (A Nursi Reader)
There are two Arabic words that describe the nature of prayer. The word “salat” describes prayer through words…
Love of Animals in a Contemporary Student of a Timeless Teacher
Love of animals is a part of the love of the creation. This love is a consequence of…
The Guests of The Palace
The sandstorm was over. It was a horrible night. The caravan was lost in the middle of nowhere.…
Is There an Islamic Code of Conduct Concerning Way of Dressing
There are no formal rules in Islam concerned with the way one wears one’s hair, the style of…
Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes and Hero-Worship and Heroic in History
Carlyle was Scottish and lived in England, but he had close relations with the “New World” and had…
Editorial (Issue 48)
Humanity is the most honorable member of all creation, a fact underscored by the divine revelation Surely We…