Tolerance is defined as allowing someone or something to exist without interference. In social and political settings, it means to let other opinions and practices that are different than ours to exist and thrive. Aristoteles defines virtues as being balanced ...

In his latest book, Embracing the World, Ori Z. Soltes makes distinct connections between Rumi in his time and M. Fethullah Gulen in our time. Soltes defines this link by saying that “fundamentally, the former one spoke and taught and ...

Everyone is on board with having world peace. There are only a few people who would benefit from conflict. How do we achieve it ? There are people whose name is associated with peace like Nelson Mandela. Fethullah Gulen should ...

In his 2013 book, “Toward an Islamic Enlightenment-The Gulen Movement”, Hakan Yavuz examines the “structure” of the Hizmet Movement by analyzing the authority, networks and opportunity spaces perspective. According to Yavuz, Fethullah Gulen argues that salvation cannot be found in ...

I would like to share an article written by the prominent scholar and intellectual Fethullah Gulen. Fethullah Gulen is a well-known Muslim scholar who was born and raised in Turkey but has been residing in the US since 1999. He ...

When an animal comes to this world, it comes with the necessary skills to survive and usually within a short amount of time it will become a fully functioning being. It will perfectly realize all the potential of its species. ...

Tafaqqur, meaning deep thinking and systematic reflection on a subject, has an important place in Islam. This disciplined method of thinking requires pondering on a subject with an aim. As the Islamic sources tell us it was highly practiced by ...

Islam, like many other religions, teaches its followers to do good and avoid evil. It also encourages not be selfish and take care of fellow human beings. Not just the good of fellow Muslims but the whole humanity is in ...

Famous Turkish poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy wrote the following about the current affairs of Muslims more than a hundred years ago: Forget Islam, we have lost humanity…. It is no use; we cannot fool anyone like this! All the real ...

What is Hizmet Movement ? “Hizmet” literally means service, serving fellow humans or community in Turkish, which has broader meanings of servant- hood,presenting the faith by example with humility and worship. Sometimes it has been referred to as Gulen Movement, by ...