Questions and Answers about Islam

Asrın Getirdiği Tereddütler #1

by M. Fethullah Gülen

The first volume of the series addresses the more essential questions concerning Islamic faith: e.g. God and the nature of His existence; can islam solve every problem? Did Prophet Muhammad write the Qur'an Subjects like the Prophethood, Satan, etc. are also examined.

Genres: Islam, Turkish, Religion

238 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2005

About the author

Muhammed Fethullah Gülen was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement who as of 2016 had millions of followers. Gülen was an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective that embraces democratic modernity. Gülen was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981 and he was a citizen of Turkey until his denaturalization by the Turkish government in 2017. Over the years, Gülen became a centrist political figure in Turkey prior to his being there as a fugitive. From 1999 until his death in 2024, Gülen lived in self-exile in the United States near Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.
Gülen said his social criticisms are focused upon individuals' faith and morality and a lesser extent toward political ends, and self described as rejecting an Islamist political philosophy, advocating instead for full participation within professions, society, and political life by religious and secular individuals who profess high moral or ethical principles and who wholly support secular rule, within Muslim-majority countries and elsewhere. Gülen was described in the English-language media as an imam "who promoted a tolerant Islam which emphasises altruism, hard work, and education" and as "one of the world's most important Muslim figures".
In 2003, a number of Gülen movement participants allied with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's right wing Justice and Development Party (AKP), providing the AKP political and sorely-needed administrative support. This political alliance worked together to weaken left-of-center Kemalist factions, but fractured in 2011. Turkish prosecutors accused Gülen of attempts to overthrow the government by allegedly directing politically motivated corruption investigations by Gülen-linked investigators then in the judiciary, who illegally wiretapped the executive office of the Turkish president, and Gülen's alleged instigations of the 2016 coup attempt. Gülen denied the accusations.
A Turkish criminal court issued an arrest warrant for Gülen in 2016, and Turkey demanded his extradition from the United States. U.S. government officials did not believe he was associated with any terrorist activity, and requested evidence to be provided by the Turkish government to substantiate the allegations in the warrant requesting extradition, frequently rejecting Turkish calls for his extradition.
Gülen was wanted as a terrorist leader in Turkey and Pakistan, as well as by the OIC and GCC.

Reviews

[Jawad Khan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Writer has deeper insight into the problems faced by young Muslims nowadays. He has pointed to various important issues and discussed the should-be-approached solution towards such matters.
A good work, indeed.

[Hend Hussein · Rating 5 out of 5]

فتح أفاق كتير ليا ... فى مواضيع كتيرة أوى .. يمكن بتيجى على بالنا ونقول أستغفر الله " ازاى أفكر كده" ...
مع ان بعضها لازم نفكر فيها ... وكعادته هيخليك تعبر حاجز الزمن ... ما ينفعش ما تقرأش الكتاب ده ّ!

[رغد · Rating 5 out of 5]

من أروع ما قرأت ^^

[Alaa · Rating 3 out of 5]

شكراً للأستاذ اورخان محمد علي على الترجمة الرائعة! حقيقةً من أفضل الترجمات التي مررت بها.

[eheheh · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Allah (celle celâluhu) senin durumunu -hâşa- öğrenmek için imtihan etmiyor. Bilâkis seni sana gösteriyor ve seni, seninle de imtihan ediyor.”


Oldukça kapsamlı, insanın aklına gelebilecek din ile alakalı bir çok tereddüt ve şüpheleri uçurup götürecek bir kitaptı. Dine yönelik birçok soru ,okuyucunun yaşı fark etmezsizin idrak edebileceği bir üslupla cevaplanmıştı. Günümüzde bulunan problemlerin sebebiyeti, buna yönelik şahsi ya da toplum olarak uygulanabilecek çözümler, yaratılanların arkasındaki hakikat ve dinde kabul kılınan bazı hususların arkasındaki maksatlar hem anlaşılabilir hem de haklı bulunabilir bir şekilde açıklanmıştı.
Kitabı okurken bu bilgileri nasıl başkalarına en doğru üslup ile aktarabilirim diye düşünürken kitabın son sorusunu gördüğümde çok duygulandım (“İnançsız birine önce neyi, nasıl anlatmalı?”). Böylesine güzel bir kitaba da zaten böyle faydalı , öğütlü ve okuyucunun günlük hayatına geçirebileceği bir son yakışırdı zaten.

[Abdulhameed Alain · Rating 2 out of 5]

هي بالفعل أسئلة محيرة لكن بعض الإجابات تجعلك تحتار أكثر فبعض الإجابات من وجهة نظري لم تكون كاملة وأحياناً يخوض في تفصيل ويترك أصل السؤال .. الكتاب ديني أكثر مما هو فلسفي مثل ما توقعت لذلك تركت نجمتين لانه خالف توقعي وإلا حقيقة كتاب رائع

[فيروز]

يستحق القراءة,,

حاول متموتش إلا ما تكون قريته ,, أقلّه اطّلعت عليه,,

[Muslim · Rating 5 out of 5]

a must read book

[Rey · Rating 5 out of 5]

cevapların hepsinde önce ne kadar cahil olduğumuzu vurgulamasina ve okumadığımızı belirtmesine sonra da 5 yaşındaki çocuğa anlatır gibi anlatmasına bayıldım

[Muhammad Negm · Rating 2 out of 5]

رغم ان الكتاب موجه بشكل عام للاتراك الا انه مفيد

[Hilal · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Kalbi ve ruhu beslenemeyen kitleler er geç ilhadın pençesine düşerler.”
☕️
“Bir ilk tasarı ve plân olmadan, herhangi bir işe başlamak neticesiz olacağı gibi, irade ve azim görmeyen her tasarı ve plân da akîm ve neticesiz kalacaktır.”

[Tamer Kamel]

GOOD

[جبر الجبر · Rating 4 out of 5]

فتح الله كولن يفتح لك افاق من المعرفة والفكر ، وهو احد رواد الفكر الاسلامي في تركيا ، ولا غنى لنا عن امثاله وامثال هذه الكتب. والكتاب والترجمه جميعهم رائع ومميز .