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Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

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The Fountain | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Can you imagine a baby, newly delivered and handed over to the mother, feeling hate and regret emanating from the mother? This would be an extremely rare, unnatural event, one that would only occur under unfavorable circumstances. With very few exceptions, all of us have always been able to find re…

Love for Humankind

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, love is life; we feel and sense each other with love. God Almighty has not created a stronger relation than love, this chain that binds humans one to a…

Emotional Intelligence

Dr. Steve Sablack | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Research has shown that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) alone is not a guarantee of success in life. Today, you need a high IQ plus a high Emotional Quotient (EQ) to ensure development as a “whole person.” The two are inextricably linked – it is not an either/or scenario, but rather, a matter of both/an…

Understanding Prophet Muhammad Beyond the Stereotypes

Alphonse Dougan | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

“None of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.” W. Montgomery Watt Michael Hart received much heated criticism from some of his readers when he listed Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, as the most influential person of all times in his…

Celestial Reflections

Baha Abushagra | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

In cosmic jargon, a planet is said to be at “opposition” when the Sun is on one side of the Earth and the planet is on the opposite side. On 27 August 2003, the Sun, Earth, and Mars lined up in rare opposition: the orbits of Earth and Mars were at their closest possible, placing Mars closer to Eart…

The Book of Daniel

Mustafa Tabanli | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

In this work we focus on the character analysis of Daniel as a man chosen by God. The King James’s Bible was used as the main text. We have tried to understand the text within its own context, independently from other revelations. Historical facts were only used in a way consistent with the explana…

The Golden Ratio

Dr. Sami Polatoz | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

It is very obvious that there is an amazing system at work in the universe. Words are usually insufficient to explain this perfection. Therefore, one must refer to the different language and approach of mathematics. Characteristics found in events and structures that are similar, but seem unconnect…

A Nursi Reader - Be Kind to Your Parents

Dr. Zeki Saritoprak | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

In this series of articles, A Nursi Reader, the aim is to present the thoughts of the famous Islamic scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) on a variety of topics, using his own writings. As a prolific writer, Nursi has written on numerous topics – a rough count illustrates that he has written…

Genomes and Languages

Hakan Ufuk | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Languages are actually not that different from genes. Just as you would expect events like the Barbarian Migrations of the 5th century, or the Bubonic plague of the 14th century to leave marks on the gene pools of the surviving populations, languages are influenced, in that new words, new idioms an…

Discussions on the Meaning of Life

Rosemary Steel | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

One day a traveler in the desert was being pursued by a ferocious animal; he saw in front of him a disused well, the depth of which was sixty meters. He jumped in without looking to see what was at the bottom. However, laying in wait at the bottom of the well a large dragon was crouching, its jaws…

Artificial Intelligence vs. the Mind

Fatih Gelgi | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

In the last fifty years, computer technology has led a new discussion centered on Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. the mind. The main aim in AI is to construct systems which behave in ‘logical’ ways as far as possible. While a hundred years ago, the question, “can a system with artificial intellige…

How Did the Earth and Sky, Having Once Been Attached, Part?

Osman Cakmak | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Books concerned with cosmology compare all the characteristics of the period that followed the six phases of creation with the current features of the universe. This period was when matter was given its shape, and when the interaction of atoms under high temperature began. The formation of the atom…

The Age of the Earth

Omer Said Gonullu | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Methods of Measuring the Earth’s Age All methods of estimating “time” use the same principle: measuring the velocity of natural processes that show continuity over time. One of the most advanced methods of chronometry today is to use the velocity of quartz crystal vibrations when exposed to an ele…

A Moment for Reflection

Dogan Koc | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

The Generosity of ‘Ali ibn Abu Talib (May God be pleased with him) One day Ali ibn Abu Talib was working in the date orchard. After a long day’s work he loaded a sack of dates on his camel, and headed for home. The halter of the camel was in the hand of his slave. When they entered Madina they he…

The Effect of Television in the Early Years

Hasan Aydinli | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Among the greatest inventions of the twentieth century are devices of mass communications. Every invention can have either a positive or a negative effect, depending on how it is used. TV is one of these inventions that is found in the home. The history of family life can be divided into two phase…

What is the purpose of death?

Hikmet Isik | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

Although we are confined in this impermanent material world, every one of us has an inborn feeling and yearning for eternity. Our desire for the eternal life is so great that the whole universe would not be compensation enough. In fact, this natural inclination toward eternal happiness comes from t…

Turkish Islam and Secular State: The Gulen Movement

Etga Ugur | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

The public role of religion is a source of controversy in almost every corner of the world in the contemporary age. The headscarf issue in France and Turkey, the Ten Commandments monument case in Alabama, US, the stoning sentence of a woman in Nigeria, and religiously inspired confrontations in Ind…

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