Issue 11 (July - September 1995)

Within the movement of history we have been carried to the threshold of a new age open to the manifestations of Divine favour. Despite (or in parallel with) the advances in science and technology, the last two or three centuries have witnessed, across the world, a break with traditional values and…

The time an individual can devote to catching up with the expanding information-base of humanity is limited. But he or she has to do it: information is the essential raw material of decisions and choices. The expansion in available information is in part being matched by expansion in techniques of…

Introduction It is estimated that 80 to 90 percent of all cancer cases are related to environmental and lifestyle influences (1). Many cancer research centers estimate that 80 to 90 percent of human cancers are preventable. Beside chemicals and infections (viral and parasitic), extrinsic factors i…

A True Story Of Faith and Resolve Hypertension is one of the most widespread dangerous diseases of this century affecting the young as well as the elderly. It can lead to other, more dangerous conditions, coronary and brain diseases among them. The two main causes of hypertension are stress and b…

Dr Albar is a Consultant to the King Fahad Medical Research Center, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah. In this excellent, fully illustrated study, written in plain English with only the minimum of technical words, he presents a summary of present knowledge about human embryonic development in the…

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate Whoever has been given the Wisdom, certainly he has been given much good The following consists of a brief comparison between the sacred wisdom of the Wise Qur'an and human philosophy, and a concise summary of the instruction and training whi…

An elderly man gazed out of his cell window in Eskisehir prison. Spring-green poplar leaves moved in the brisk wind and, above the trees, small birds flapped and twittered as if to answer and amplify the leaves’ sunlit applause. The sight was like a reviving drink, and his thoughts plunged into ima…

Its meaning covers being sensible and reasonable, well- behaved, well-mannered, treating people kindly. Mannerliness is used in the terminology of Sufism to defend against errors and to distinguish the factors leading to errors, It is dealt with under the categories of 'mannerliness in Shari'a', 'm…

Said Nursi, one of the great thinkers of the age, in teaching the existence and unity of God, put forward this argument: There are two ways to explain how a seed germinates under earth, then grows into an elaborate tree, or how an embryo grows into a human being: either each of the innumerable par…

Every few years the scientific community is shaken by a new theory. Theories are put forward in every field of science from mechanics to molecules. These continual changes in scientific understanding force us to ask how much we really know about the world. The field of medicine, as one of the olde…

Early life NEWTON was born prematurely on 25th December 1645 in Woolsthorpe, a hamlet near Grantham in Lincolnshire, a few months after the death of his father. At three years old, he was separated from his mother when she remarried: his stepfather (a well- to-do man and a minister of the church)…

International Conference on Islam and Science: Conflicting disciplines or manifestations of the same truth? The Conference was held in the Wembley Grand Hall on Saturday, 29th April, 1995, from 9 in the morning to 7 in the evening. The occasion was formally opened by Dr A. F. Yusuf, who expressed…

There are a great number of wonders in nature waiting to be understood. One of them is the communication between ants and their guests. Bert Hölldobler began studying this communication in the early 1960s. He concluded his observation by saying that species of insects living with ants have develope…