Pain Doesn’t Differ: Turkish Refugees Help Greek Fire Victims
Gasparetto (not his real name)[1] was a young Turkish medical student when he was arrested and imprisoned for…
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Under the Shade of Tranquility: My Meeting with Fethullah Gülen
No concept is more central to Islam than the concept of peace. From our origins, to how we…
In the Footsteps of Wisdom: A Journey Through Said Nursi’s Eighth Word
“Ideology is the marriage of the truth with the apocryphal whereas wisdom is the distinction of the former…
Avoid the Negaholics – Always
Some people are full of negative thoughts. They don’t dream or strive. These are negaholics, and if you’re…
Life and Education Based on Positive Thought
Positive thinking is a mental attitude, a process of generating thoughts that transform energy into reality. In this…
The Boycott: How the Prophet and Early Muslims Responded to the Oppression
When some of the earliest Muslims faced a devastating boycott, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) turned not…
Göbekli Tepe: The World’s First Religious Temple
Discovery In 1963, a team of American and Turkish archeologists surveyed Southeast Turkey, looking for sites of archeological…
It’s Not About Where You Break
After watching my father battle a severe mental illness, threaten my family members, and assault a family friend,…
Curtains in the Breeze
Trauma and memory being the strange things they are, a part of me will always be there. A…
Albert Camus and Said Nursi on the Problem of Evil
Many atheists suggest that if God exists, there should not be evil, since God, by definition, is omnipotent,…
Lovers of Light
On a clear night, having fixed their hearts upon the Light they set out for eternity And wherever…