Cries of Silence
For many years now, cries of silence have clamored above my voice. So many times have I been…
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Need a Third Eye?
“For he who has but one tool, the hammer, the whole world looks like a nail.” Since the…
The Abyss of Modern Thought
Without attributing any value to previous eras, modern thought claims that the only true knowledge is its own,…
Are you RFIDed?
Though tremendous technical efforts are being spent on solving the problem of privacy concerns in RFID usage, this…
A Universal Islamic Phenomenon in Turkish Religious Practice: the Gulen Case
Fethullah Gulen started his professional career as a traditional imam, trained and certificated by the governmental authorities in…
Satan and His Contemporary Followers
Satan is a miserable and accursed one, who has fallen away from God’s Mercy, whose task is to…
What Algorithms Imply for Us
Different people have different styles of handling situations; as the proverb says “Different strokes for different folks.” Another…
On Nature, Beauty, and Transcendence: An Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Matter and Beyond explores a wide range of ethical, philosophical, spiritual and scientific questions through interviews with leading…
Towards Spelling Out Our Own Line of Thought
In the past, “Islam” used to come into our people’s minds first as far as “religion” was concerned,…
Holy Migration
Most human beings feel a strong loyalty to the place of their birth. Sometimes this loyalty can be…
A Miraculous Mechanism: DNA Repair
We live in a world full of technological devices, instruments and machines. Even if we buy them from…
It’s us, Peter, your Eyes!
Dear Peter, the organs entrusted to you by the Creator have been describing themselves to you for quite…
Victory of the Spirit
Q: What is the meaning of “victory” for a believer, and how is it realized? Human life in…
Days of Depression and Our Atlas of Hope
Today, almost everybody speaks about “material welfare and comfort,” without seeing any values other than these, or rather without…
From Genes to Proteins: A New Level of Complexity
Newspapers frequently run articles reporting a study about a gene linked to some disease. Thanks to such wide…