Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

The Turks have never been detached, in Western imagination, from other Islamic nations of the Middle East even though they are of a completely different geographical, cultural and, above all, linguistic origin. They came to Anatolia from Central Asia some seven hundred years ago with a language of…

Compassion is the beginning of being, without it everything is chaos. Everything has come into existence through compassion and by compassion it continues to exist in harmony. The earth was put in order by messages coming from the other side of the heavens. Everything from the macrocosm to the micr…

There are about 1,360 million cubic kilometres of water on the earth. If all the water, on the planet; from oceans, lakes, rivers, the atmosphere, underground aquifers and what is locked up in glaciers and snow, were all released at once the earth’s surface could be flooded to an overall depth of s…

God is absolutely other than His creation. The Creator cannot by any means be the same kind of being as that which He created. Although this is self-evident to sense and reason, some people still ask why we cannot directly see God. But direct vision is very limited and could never be an appropriat…

Environment is whatever outside an organism surrounds it and in which it lives. It may be a geographical region, a certain climatic condition, the pollutants or the noise around the organism. The natural environment contains a mosaic of species (groups of interacting organisms). They do not live i…

Progress in knowledge and technology may be likened to the widening ripples caused by a pebble thrown in a pool of water. All civilizations have benefited from the knowledge of their predecessors and made their own contributions so that knowledge has accumulated and the frontiers of learning have b…

Those who have found The Truth found Him in their souls; Those who have been detained half-way have been hindered by conjectures. Who truly seeks will truly find Him, while the indolent can do neither. For His slaves on their spiritual journey, He is the final destination. The souls who do not…

The evening primrose, oenothera spp., is not in fact a primrose but is related to the garden flowers clarkia and gotedia and also to the rose bay willow-herb. It has a two year growth cycle; during the second year it bears yellow flowers and, in late summer or early autumn, seed pods. American Ind…

To understand the world and the spirit of man in it; to understand the nature and the worth of religion to man; to understand how, if there is no religion, the world becomes the darkest dungeon and the unbeliever the most unfortunate of creatures; to grasp what opens the secret sign of this univers…

In common with many children, I took a great interest in living organisms and in matters related to them. Later, this interest was to play a very important part in my life. At primary school, when our teacher first brought a microscope into the class and gave us the chance to see the delicate legs…

O believers, when you stand for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe your heads, and wash your feet up to the ankles. If you are unclean, bathe and purify your bodies fully. But if you are ill or in the middle of travelling or … you cannot find water, then take whole…

Sinan is one of the most internationally renowned and admired architects, and certainly the best architect of the period which European history designates the High Renaissance. Sinan lived a tremendously long life, a year or so short of a hundred years, from 1490 to 1588. This century of Sinan’s li…

What are the ways of internalizing good ethical conduct and high virtues so as to make them a part of our nature? Virtues such as sincerity (ikhlas1), loyalty, refraining from backbiting or suspicion2 are among the essentials of good conduct every believing person must adopt. I think everybody agr…

Today, we are as exposed to great calamities and dangers as we have open to us great possibilities and hopes. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been two of the most productive and richest centuries for both good and evil. Had humanity made proper use of the opportunities of this period, t…

The Fountain, as a voice of faith and consciousness of duty, of hope and resolution, is appearing on the publishing scene at a time when all kinds of calamities-famine, war, flood, earthquake-have darkened the lives of many Muslims in different parts of the Islamic world. At such a time there is in…