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12 Questions-Answers With Youth- by Osman Nuri Topbas
We had a conversation with our young fellow townsmen on 17 March 2018 in our city Konya which despite being a city of history, culture, and civilization, receives its real value by being the home for one of the prominent friends of Allah and one of sultans of the spiritual world, Mawlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi.
The main subject of our conversation was about what the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) taught and how he taught it to his companions and in their personality to his entire ummah. However, as our addressees were the youth we were asked to make this conversation in the form of question and answer, considering the fact that it would yield more benefits. Consequently we took our main subject, the education system of our Prophet Muhammed, as our first question and tried to answer the other questions asked by our young brothers too. Because our time was not enough to answer all fifty questions asked by them, we dealt with the ones that had priority.
It was requested by the Konya Metropolitan Municipality that this fruitful program could be published as a booklet in order to keep it as a pleasant memory in our souls. In this way, we had the opportunity to make some reviews and additions by including some issues that we could not express during the program due to the limited time.
I hope that this humble booklet may become an opportunity for the good and I pray Allah to bestow happiness both in this world and the Hereafter upon Konya Metropolitan Municipality personnel who provided valuable contribution to the performance of this program and upon those who personally attended in our conversation or who attend it by their hearts by means of this booklet.
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101 Essentials Of Service- by Osman Nuri Topbas
In this book Sheikh Osman Nuri Topbaş effendi has detailed with small sentences 101 essentials points of sincere and effective services in the path of worshipping Allah.
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ISLAM: Spirit and Form- by Osman Nuri TOPBAS
This book aims to illuminate the spiritual radiance of Islamic worship and to clothe it in stories of the lives of the prophets and their companions and also in the lives of exemplary Sufis. In particular many references to the poetry of Rumi, Yunus Emre and other Sufis aim to bond the passion of our spiritual practice with its ritual form. The chapters on paying charity and poor-due possess great beauty. The deep analysis they afford of the economic philosophy integral in Islam, abundantly demonstrates their inherent value in our grossly material world
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Sufism By Osman Nuri Topbas
Sufism By Osman Nuri Topbas: A Path towards the Internalization of Faith (Ihsân). There is no doubt that Sufism By Osman Nuri Topbas represents the heart, essence and spiritual dimension of Islam.
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Islam, Spirit And Form
By Osman Nuri TOPBAS
Islam: Spirit and Form, which throws light on the basic principles of Islam from the spiritual perspective, is a reference book in all regards. The book talks about the three important steps that take a human being to the presence of the Divine. Islam, the first of these steps, is to surrender. The second is submission, the state of mind that finds its true meaning once crowned with faith or iman.
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Ikhlas and Taqwa: Sincerity and Piety by Osman Nuri Topbaş
The most important things that give one s life a meaning are taqwâ (piety) and sincerity. Taqwâ is to curb one s fleshly desires and to strengthen the spiritual potential through prayers to God and doing good deeds for humanity.
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The Islamic Approach to Reason and Philosophy
By Osman Nuri TOPBAS
Shaykh Osman Nuri TOPBAŞ (q.s.) who conclude his work by this sentence: “While humanity has been unable to find what it seeks in distorted and man-made religions or philosophies and has been dragged into spiritual crisis and dissatisfaction, there can be no confusion as direful as the adherents of Islam feeling an enthusiasm and admiration for these misguided paths”, provide in this book the Islamic point of view and extrapolation of Islamic thought based on the Qur’an and Prophetic Sunnah as well as scholars explanations and understanding within the only purpose of Meditation on the creation and the Creator.
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The Society Of The Age Of Bliss
By Osman Nuri TOPBAS
In this book, Shaykh Osman Nuri Topbaş explains in detail what can be considered as the Age of Bliss (in Arabic Asr-I-Saadah) as follow (extract): The Age of Bliss refers to an age of peace and happiness, in which human beings enjoyed the greatest joy thinkable. The Age of Bliss were times honoured by the presence of the Blessed Prophet (upon him blessings and peace).
The term Asr-u Saadah has also been used, from time to time, to refer to period of the Righteous Caliphs, to the succeeding Tabiin generation, even to the Tabau Tabiin generation subsequent to it. Some exegetes comment that the vow taken on asr, or ‘time’, in surah al-Asr, is also in reference to the Asr-u Saadah; for it was during those times that the true was definitively separated from false.
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101 Steps In Education – by Osman Nuri Topbas
By Osman Nuri Topbas
This short booklet is a compilation of the concise sayings written in the numerous books of Osman Nuri Topbaş. It is an important guide especially for those who are in the field of education. Several pages can be written about each and every one of these 101 sayings. They can be used by all believers as guiding principles in every step of their lives.