Editorial (Issue 133): Everything Has a Home
Almost all living creatures have a home of sorts. It is a land that is familiar to us…
Beautiful
18 articles
This Worldly Life
How beautiful, is this worldly lifeBut not a soul shall remainWe all come into this worldOnly to leave…
Absolute Justice and Bediuzzaman’s Cup
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (d. 1960) defines justice either in terms of absolute, as opposed to relative, or positive,…
A Personal Journey: Read as You Sail!
Facts and knowledge, truth and belief, philosophy and faith, science and religion – these are all about guiding…
All of Your Beautiful Names
O Allah I know You say There is no compulsion in religion But I don’t want this freedom…
Inside a Patient’s Room
Hospital chaplains often intersect a person’s life at the time of their most desperate need. An unwed mom…
Inspiring Story
from the memoirs of an inventor that lived long, long ago I especially love when the spider webs…
Levels of Tolerance Can Culminate with Love
Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. Don’t forget to welcome strangers. By doing that, some…
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…
Beauty and the Beautiful
Beauty elevates our hearts, awakens our souls with sweet excitement and appreciation, and then becomes the esthetic of…
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…
Symmetry and Beauty
When visiting Moscow University, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, the famous physicist and the founder of Quantum Mechanics, as…
Cemetery Culture
It seems a strange contrast to start a celebration by paying a visit to one’s parents or grandparents…
Painless Love
Love is an innate human trait. To love and to be loved are among the most basic human…
A Lecture
O, My Computer Engineer Friend, God willing, you are to be an expert hardware specialist or a good-quality…