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Monthly Archive

2019

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 91 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
The Fountain
2852

Editorial (Circling and Healing)

Circular motions are all around us. Some are visible or perceptible, while many are not. In a contemplative piece in this issue, Jacob Hardy, a dear friend, writes about this fantastic phenomenon that... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
M. Fethullah Gulen
4132

Broken Dream

There was once a time when we enjoyed mutual love and respect. We had started to relate to one another. That was when everything looked different and cozy across the land. Even if some inappropriate a... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
Omer Serranur
4028

Retina the Mind Boggler-2

In our previous article where we discussed the mind-boggling complexity of our eyes’ retinas. We learned about the ten separate layers of cells, but we did not elaborate on the intricacies of their cr... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
Ali Kaya
5737

Beyond the Rainbow

Have you ever seen a rainbow? Until recently, I had looked at many rainbows, but had never truly seen a rainbow. In his writings on faith and logic, religious scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi maintaine... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
The Fountain
5067

Jesus: One Man, Two Faiths: A Response to 9/11/01

The September 11th terrorist attack was traumatic for many people. At that point in my life, I had been studying Islam for thirty-six years: first as a student, then as a professor of Islamic history ... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
The Fountain
5369

Circling in the Universe

"It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; all (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its orbit with its own motion.”  (Quran 21:33) Almost everyone – depending on read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed
4984

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)

Alzheimer’s disease is “an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks” according to the Alzhei... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
M. Fethullah Gulen
5711

Manifestation (Tajalli)

Tajalli (manifestation), which has almost the same meaning as showing itself, display, and appearance, in the language of Sufism means being favored with God’s special gifts. It also denotes that the ... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
Atif Yorulmaz
3986

Timing of Medication

We are all aware of the fact that there is certain rhythm and order in the movement of the sun and the earth, as well as other planets along their pre-assigned orbits. This order has ongoing without a... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
Sage Chen
3731

Hizmet Is a Social Movement

Hizmet Movement (aka Gülen Movement) has always been given different names, which rely on and point to divergent underlying ontologies and understandings. Cemaat (Community), Hizmet (Service), Gonullu... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
The Fountain
2963

In the Eye

It was 3:45 pm. I was sitting crossed-legged with twenty other seven-year olds under a wall of flat glass windows. An eerie calm had settled outside, where a short time before there had been whipping ... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
Ali Kaya
11154

The Mathematical Beauty of Snowflakes

“There was a footpath leading across the fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to kn read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
The Fountain
3200

Two-Way Street

As I sit and wait for my day of judgment, I ponder the future. Can I continue to live my life as I dream and desire? Or will I remain doomed to a lifetime of cries and days of gloom? People say th... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
Hikmet Isik
4314

Hunt for Divine Manifestation

Divine manifestation (tajalli) is the attainment of inner light as a result of special Divine gifts. This is experienced by travelers on the way of Truth who are committed to prayer. Tajalli is not on... read more..

Issue 127 (Jan - Feb 2019)
The Fountain
3996

Science Square (Issue 127)

A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) approach to translate brain waves into speech Akbari et al. Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex. Scientific Reports January, 2... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
2703

Editorial (Issue 128)

East and West. Maybe it is not easy to draw straight lines where these two are clearly separated, and yet everyone has a conceptualization of what is meant when this distinction is proposed. While som... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
M. Fethullah Gulen
4103

Years of Heedlessness

Heedlessness means abstraction, carelessness, and not being oneself. The heedless persons are uninformed about what is going on around them; they are always confused and careless regarding their relat... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
Ali Kaya
16885

The Mathematical Patterns around Us

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?”Albert Einstein I have alway read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
3740

The Mountain Climb

  What if somebody came up to you and said the words, “you can’t do it?” What if somebody came up to you and pushed you down, kicked you, forced you to stop moving forward, and forced you to stop try... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
3526

Tumor Suppressing Mechanisms and Cancer

It is estimated that there are approximately 100 trillion cells in the human body. They fulfill their duties harmoniously with all the systems, organs, and tissues manifesting innumerable signs of won... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
4235

Ilm Ethos and Convivencia

Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity explores the mighty continent of Europe by an academic whose origins lie in the Third World. Professor Akbar Ahmed, one of the renowned scholars of... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
Omer Yildiz
5160

Orexin: The Miraculous Secretion from the Brain

Fear of obesity may sometimes lead people to an extreme diet, and this may cause a deadly disease: anorexia nervosa. The sufferer initially tries to lose weight by going on a diet, but the illness soo... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
Lawrence Brazier
3090

Divine Humor

Quite obviously, divine humor is not by me, as the title and byline may imply. I also sense a few wrinkled brows among our readers. Can humor be divine? The question is not unreasonable: the prophets ... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
M. Fethullah Gulen
3546

Life (Hayah)

Hayah, which can be translated as liveliness and being alive, means that a heart which is already dead because of ignorance, misguidance and unbelief, comes to life through belief, and knowledge and l... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
4371

Chlorination of Water

For nearly a century, chlorine has been used to disinfect drinking water. The use of chlorine in water started when John Snow used to purify the cholera-causing water of the Broad Street Pump, in Lond... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
2767

The Great Wave: The Aftermath

“It’s my fault, all my fault; I should’ve tried harder,” he said. A quintessential characteristic of his - always pinning the blame on no one other than himself. They were closing us down; there was ... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
Numan Erciyes
3597

The Brain in the Intestine and Pets in Our Body

We eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom. Yet, we never think about how all these physical needs are processed in the systems of our body when they are functioning normally.Yes, our bodies are created wi... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
Ceyda Sablak
3659

Fire on the Mountain

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal illness of the nervous system, resulting in the degeneration of neurons. When the motor neurons in the lateral spinal cord degenerate, the muscle cann... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
3693

The Ride of My Life

When you ride a rollercoaster for the first time you feel a surge of emotions that grab, terrify, and haunt you all at once – well, at least at the start. But once you get over that first drop, that f... read more..

Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)
The Fountain
4091

Religion: More Than Life or Life Itself?

Respect for life is more than a religious value; it is a constituent dimension of faith found in every major religion of the world. One cannot have faith in a creator God (or an all-embracing transcen... read more..

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