Conversation Club

It is forbidden to talk during the Khutbah.

Khaleed Bin Valeed — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:43:47 +0000

Several sayings of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) covers this subject.

In an authentic hadith reported by the group of Ahadith collectors except Ibn-Majah, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said,

“If you told your friend to pay attention on Friday while the Imam is delivering the speech then you committed a sin of vain talk.”

Another authentic hadith . . . → Read More: It is forbidden to talk during the Khutbah.

Why the hell is eternal?

Kasim Cobanoglu — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:19:30 +0000

by Yusuf KARA

There are many people in the society who have difficulty in understanding the reality that . . . → Read More: Why the hell is eternal?

Verse of the Day

Khaleed Bin Valeed — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:57:27 +0000

O ye who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday (the Day of Assembly),

hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah, and leave off business (and traffic):

That is best for you if ye but knew!

And when the Prayer is finished, then may ye disperse through the . . . → Read More: Verse of the Day

Eid Mubarak (Eid al Fitr – 2009)

Jonah — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:14:59 +0000

A Brief Account of the Life of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Khaleed Bin Valeed — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:22:17 +0000

Birth: 1876, Bitlis, Hizan, Nurs Death: March 23rd, 1960 Urfa

- Bediuzzaman devides his life into two periods: “The period of Old Said” is from his first visit to Istanbul until the First World War, and “the period of New Said” is from his exile to Barla where he started . . . → Read More: A Brief Account of the Life of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Is not the retirement as far away as the paradise?

Mevlut Murat — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:47:15 +0000

So many people do not desire the hereafter life and its pleasures and delights as they reckon that they are too far away. Although same people attain the goal of raising to a high rank, reaching the retirement, owning a flat or a piece of land at the very last years of . . . → Read More: Is not the retirement as far away as the paradise?

Fatih Sultan Mehmet, A superhero at his very early twenties

Mevlut Murat — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:37:38 +0000

Lately I have read a brief article about Sultan Fatih the Conqueror and I would like to share it in our blog.

Enjoy Reading.

The Following is a brief historical account of Fatih sultan Mehmet, which I collected for those who don’t have an idea about this great . . . → Read More: Fatih Sultan Mehmet, A superhero at his very early twenties

Istanbul not Constantinapole

Jonah — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:20:44 +0000

Istanbul was Constantinople Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you’ve a date in Constantinople She’ll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they . . . → Read More: Istanbul not Constantinapole

Deliverance through Belief / Seventh Hope

Mevlut Murat — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:26:38 +0000

from Treatise for the Elderly

One time at the start of my old age when the laughter of the Old Said was being transformed into the weeping of the New Said, supposing me still to be the Old Said, the worldly in Ankara invited me there, and I went. At the close of autumn . . . → Read More: Deliverance through Belief / Seventh Hope

Ground Rules for Sincerity; Rule #4

Mevlut Murat — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:54:13 +0000

This is to imagine your brothers’ virtues and merits in your own selves, and to thankfully take pride at their glory. The Sufis have terms they use among themselves, “annihilation in the shaykh,” “annihilation in the Prophet;” I am not a Sufi, but these principles of theirs make a good rule in our way, . . . → Read More: Ground Rules for Sincerity; Rule #4