3 Answers to An Appealing Question: Does God exist?

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.

A book everyone should read

The best seller ever, the world's mostly read and memorized book...

It is being read any time, any minute, any second in any place from east to the west... Millions have been reading, and most probably many more will be reading in the future. Tens of thousands have memorized it from cover to cover, word by word; and they can recite every page of it by heart as easy as their names. Interesting, isn’t it?This is a book reviewed thousands and thousands of times by its rivals to disproof and refute. This is a book whose principles and teachings affected the world most. This is the word of God. This is Qur'an...

For more than 14 hundred years or so, people have been studying it and applying to their lives. This is a magnificent success for simply a book and it is a challenging confrontation for the opponent who claims to question the Qur'an. Couple of lines about this challenge is:

“If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support. (Isra, 88)

Of course, some of the most eloquent poets of their time tried to do that but failed to win in spite of massive travail as there is a perfect beauty in the simplicity and purity of the

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.

Seventy Eight

Benjamin was in a sombre mood with his face full of sadness. He had remembered those days again. Thinking of it, a deep sorrow and grief invaded his heart. He was about to cry. A long time ago, he was informed about his elder son’s drug deals, and soon after, his death. He had dedicated everything in his life to his younger son from then on. His younger son, too, left his dearest father alone in the world after an atrocious