Touched by a Small Kindness
When a professor of Turkish language and literature is met by Turkish hospitality during a short stopover, she…
Issue 91 (January - February 2013)
21 articles
The Lotus Effect: A Manifestation of Divine Purity
The lotus, a radiant and graceful aquatic plant with a magnificent ability to repel dirt, has been the…
Helping Hands
With half the world living on less than $2.50 per day and with 46.2 million people in the United…
The Mysteries of the Fundamental Physical Dimensions
“The most beautiful system [the universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” (Isaac…
Responses to Conflict in Individualistic and Collectivistic Societies
Cultural differences have a potential to trigger conflicts at all levels, and the response each society gives to…
The Cell Phone-Brain Cancer Controversy
In recent years, people have been divided by conflicting studies about the risk of cancer posed by cell…
Moderation as a Way to Address Prejudice
Of all the faculties and senses that man is endowed with, moderation is one of the most essential…
Can Black Holes Cause an Apocalypse?
The world may not have ended on December 21, 2012, but that does not mean it won’t end…
The Source of Love
Love… Man and the universe was created because of love and it can only be understood through love……
1993-2013
This year marks a delightful turn of a new era for The Fountain. Two decades have past since…
Little Professor Syndrome
Autism—and its milder cousin Asperger’s—affects 1 in 150 children across the US. Speculation goes that people like Albert Einstein,…
The Heart
Love is like Solomon, Borne aloft on the heart, its throne.[1] The heart is humanity’s most essential feature…
Basira and Firasa
Literally meaning perception, intelligence, discretion, evidence, and witness, insight (basira) is defined as having an eye of the…
Fasting in Abrahamic Faiths
“O you who believe! Prescribed for you is the Fast, as it was prescribed for those before you,…
Rise Up
Rise up, valiant one, stop sleeping! Rise up, because my heart is lamenting… During the days having passed…