Issue 154 (Jul - Aug 2023)

One strange thing about time is that it passes quickly, especially when we’re enjoying it! Or rather, that’s how we it feels. Think about summer: when we are just about to make the best of it, we start seeing “back to school” shopping ads everywhere. For many of us over a certain age, life feels li…

In the perspective of a believer, time always flows by with fascination. On many occasions, it is adorned with wonders, and for those who truly experience its magic, it whispers many things beyond time and space. Let alone an entire lifetime or year, even a single day of a true believer is so fasci…

It was May 2019. We were observing the holy month of Ramadan, and while we were physically in the office and doing our usual work, our stomachs and spirits were on their annual leave. Deprived from my habitual caffeine intake of tea and coffee, my eyes rolled over to social media for some distracti…

People of discernment should contemplate on the fact that, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, there is a highly systematic process of cleaning and recycling despite continuous movements and mind-boggling circulations. Numerous beings, from huge stars to single-celled bacteria or from vultures to…

The constant threat to children by conflict and violence globally has led to the formulation of policies and rules to govern and protect children from unnecessary, deliberate, and direct exposure to violence and conflict. Children are beings of social construct, shaped by the environment they find…

Scientific positivism assumes history and social events to follow a straight line. In this view, divine revelation and the virtuous life it prescribes are not factored in, for human intellect is accepted as the only source of knowledge. Political, psychological, and sociological factors are seen as…

A salik (initiate) is a traveler who follows a way to a goal and makes efforts to meet with God. The way of traveling differs according to the capacity, abilities and gifts with which each individual has been favored. Some are extraordinarily attracted and taken by God Himself to the ranks of lovin…

The largest prime number [1]—discovered by a group of scientists led by Patrick Laroche in 2018—drew considerable interest [2]. To better describe the greatness of this number with 24,862,048 decimal digits, we can give the following example: if we print this number on both sides of A4 papers with…

Revelation has come to liberate me From the power of sin That’s been integrated As a standard of norm As a power of hope To restore justice in the world Kingdom and power All they devour Assuming this life is eternal False promises are all what they’ve heard of

De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Structure of the Human Body in Seven Books) by Andreas Vesalius is a collection of books on human anatomy published in Europe during the Renaissance. It can be considered as the most famous book of its kind with quality anatomical pictures and accurat…

I follow closely and with great interest what Western thinkers write and think about the Hizmet Movement, how they evaluate the current conditions affecting the Movement, and how they shed light on its future. One such book that was recently released was “Between Thought and Action: An Intellectual…

Everywhere is in darkness Eyes are in search of you People speak but with words of hypocrisy Lift the veil on your face and give us a light So all the frictions are gone in society An eclipse has happened, eyes are in sleep The fall has hit, all the roses have withered Arrhythmia does not…

Our primary concern, regardless of time or place, is to have people rise to the level of true humanity. Only those individuals who are moved by a sense of goodness and are in pursuit of perfection can be of help to humankind, which has been pursuing wrong paths and unable to come to its senses for…

Air pollution may underlie the global decline in insect numbers Wang et al. Short-term particulate matter contamination severely compromises insect antennal olfactory perception. Nature Communications, July 2023. Communication plays a critical role in the lives of animals, as the loss of communic…