Power of Imagination and Science
Love for knowledge and perseverance are necessary for scientific success, but not always enough. A scientist should also…
Effort
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Laborers of Thought, Building the Future
Those who will shape tomorrow with their ideas will be the guides of generations to come. The way…
Gifted Education: A Dilemma
The education of gifted individuals has long been ignored, for several reasons. Some have argued that gifted individuals…
Ode no XXXI from Bang-i-D’rra
Every object is at strife in the desire to “be” Churning in time, “the process of becoming” Every…
The Eighty-Twenty Rule in the Risale-i Nur
The famous Islamic scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) referred to mathematics in various forms in various places in…
Hal and Maqam (State and Station)
Hal (state) denotes experiencing in one’s inner world the “breaths” blowing from the realms beyond the world, and…
The Bamboo of Islam
Some personalities are like bamboo, very hard, very tough; they wait, they make one wait, but eventually they…
On Intelligence, Effort, and Success
This article discusses the sources of differences on intelligence and their effects on desirable outcomes in people’s lives.…
Self-Renewal
Self-renewal is the first condition of survival. Those who cannot renew themselves when necessary face annihilation sooner or…