Die and Resurrect. Possible? (WATCH)

"The heart stops, the breathing stops. For all practical purposes you'd assume that it was dead."

"He produces the live from the dead, and produces the dead from the live, and He revives the land after it had died; you are similarly resurrected." (Quran 30:19)

Here we see a video from North America. There are frozen frogs and they literally solid freeze four to six months. The common wood frog displays a rare trait called freeze tolerance. When the mercury falls, the animal becomes, to the eye and touch, a frog- shaped ice cube.

 "Two-thirds of their body water, or more, freezes," explained Jack Layne, a biologist at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. "The heart stops, the breathing stops. For all practical purposes you'd assume that it was dead."



 


God is wise and almighty. He is the source of life. He gives the life in need of nothing, no cause...

In reality, the frog's metabolism slows to a crawl, and its body temperature drops to between 21° and 30° Fahrenheit (–6° and –1° Celsius). The amphibian's heart and brain cease to function.

Hereafter and Society: Is Ignorance Bliss?

Do wee need hereafter? What could possible benefits does have the hereafter? Does it help society or destroy family? Why do some not believe in the hereafter? Does belief of hereafter promise an ultimate happiness or corruption? This article will seek answers for those questions commonly asked of people of faith.

Islamic creed reveals significant clues about human happiness both in this earthly life and the one after death. As this huge topic covers so many fields and answers, it would be better to discuss it from some perspectives in an article like this. Along with the other principles in Islamic creed like belief in God, angels, prophets, holy revelations, destiny, the belief in resurrection and hereafter is a necessary value for humanity. To believe in the resurrection and hereafter is amongst the Islamic creed and it has many benefits to human soul and happiness. If one believes in the hereafter, he is free from distress and anxiety of losing his beloved ones. He not only gains the bliss in the world but also after his death. The belief of hereafter has different impacts on different layers of society.

Let’s think about children. The feeble nature of child cannot bear his mum’s death, he psychologically collapses. Knowing that his friend or siblings have died, he will always be in fear of dying or losing his beloved ones because he thinks that he will not be seeing them anymore. His heart, mind and soul and his weak body will dreadfully be affected by this.

Language, Life and Religion: Motives and Challenges

What makes us up in the morning? What makes us feel down in our life?
How do we identify ourselves? Do we know ourselves and motives and how to deal with future, idealism and realism? In this context, how does language affect us, positively or negatively? Are there ways to encourage ourselves to motivate or get help from others who survived even after many challenges?

As I posted a few days ago The Pen Magazine has started the monthly seminar series. I have been invited to talk about Language, Life and Religion. My teleconference will be streamed  at 12.10 (Istanbul Time)

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The Pen Magazine Monthly Seminars

The Pen Magazine is a quarterly published educational and cultural magazine. Writers and editors give monthly lectures and here is the one of them.

The Trustworthy

Shall we remember him?

Shall we recall our primary knowledge about him?

Shall we remind ourselves of his good manners and etiquettes?

What do we know about him? Where shall we start?

In order to remember his life again and learn our lessons from his blessed life, let’s start with the following question…Who is He? And then go along with his birth for now.
He is Muhammad, son of Abdullah, son of Abdulmuttalib, son of Hashim, son of Abdmanaf, son of Qusay, son of Kilab, son of Murrah, son of Ka’ab, son of Lo’ay, son of Ghaleb, son of Fihr, son of Malek, son of Nadr, son of Kinanah, son of Khozaima, son of Mudrika, son of Ilyas, son of Mudar, son of Nizar, son of Ma’ad, son of Adnan.

What I have learnt in forty years: "Four Words"

Threatening or promising? Do we know exactly how to get on well with certain situations? Do we tend to give up a second and lose our strength? What is the solution of an eternally stress free life and how to cope up with its challenges?
These above are some of the questions we possibly face or we contemplate. Every question is so comprehensive and does need an article; however, we will summarize and try to give you the gist of it using the following well-said quotation from the great imam of our age and eminent thinker Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi:

What I have learnt in forty years:"Four Phrases"

Let us remember the famous scholar Imam Al-Nursi’s quotation from Mathnawi al-Nuriya: “I have learnt only four words and four phrases in forty years of my life and thirty years of my education”.
We mentioned the four words, which are point of view, intention, significative meaning and nominal meaning in the previous article. (For further details on the first words, refer to the article “Four Words”). This week we’ll read on