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Two years after the Six-Day War, on August 21, 1969, a large part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque was attacked by a Jew named Denis Ruhan. The Israeli Prime Minister of the time, Golda Meir, said the following immediately after the event: “I could not sleep for fear that night. I thought that the Muslims would enter Israel from all four sides. But the feared did not happen. Then I realized: We can do whatever we want, for the Muslim ummah is a sleeping ummah.”

Since that day, terrorist Jews have been carrying out massacres and genocide in Palestine periodically, and for the last 6 months in Gaza. Against this massacre by the Jews, no serious voice or action has been raised from the Islamic world, except for feeble voices. Neither Egypt nor Jordan pressed against the gates, nor did Turkey truly do what was necessary. Just like in 1969... Let alone stopping the fire in Gaza, the Arab regimes, primarily Turkey, continued to carry wood to the fire lit by Israel. By showing that they stand with Israel through support of gas, oil, steel, or fruits and vegetables, they degraded themselves in the race to be lower than animals.

In the face of the massacre in Gaza, even the sealed hearts of those we call infidels have begun to beat; yet, the more than 2 billion Muslims have not budged. Even the honorable act of the U.S. soldier Aaron Bushnell, who showed what it means to be human by sacrificing himself, was not enough to mobilize the Islamic world. In fact, those who worship state and politicians and dislike heroes turned up their noses at this as well.

Thinker Salih Mirzabeyoğlu gave a conference titled “Palestine and the Problem of Torture” in 1988 and said, “What is happening in Palestine and elsewhere is happening because we have failed to become men.” Nothing has changed since 1988!

It is understood that the only view seen in the mirror of Gaza held up to our faces is that Muslims have lost their dignity and honor. We evaluated this incident on our cover and used the headline, “The Real Culprits of What is Happening in Gaza are Not the Jews and Christians, But the Muslims!” Our cover topic was addressed by Ömer Emre Akcebe with his article titled “The Tweet-Sized Ummah of the Armed Prophet.”

Handan Özduygu is in our magazine with her article titled “You Have Not Believed!..”

Muharrem Çetin, in his article titled “If the Companions Lived Today, How Would They React to Islamic Structures?”, criticizes contemporary Islamic structures through the conduct and attitudes of the Companions.

We talked about Master Necip Fazıl and the Great East (Büyük Doğu) with Great Easternist Muhsin İlyas Subaşı.

Mevlüt Koç, in his article titled “Raider Spirit,” discusses the raider (akıncı) spirit through the work of Kâzım Albayrak titled “Foundations of the Islamic Movement from Shadow to Raider Force.”

We have excerpted the second and final part of the “Text and Content Analysis of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek’s ‘Esselâm’ Work,” which was written as a Master’s Project in the Department of Islamic History and Arts at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University in 2022.

Abdulkerim Kiracı examines the life of Imam Bukhari in his article titled “The White Face of Islam: Imam Bukhari.”

Nimetullah Arvas draws attention to the importance of Ramadan and fasting in his article titled “Ramadan, the Month of the Quran.”

Melikşah Sezen discusses the connection between Ottoman intellectuals and Marxism, and whether it found a place in the Islamic world, in his article titled “Journey from Red to Green: Marxism in the Ottoman Empire.”

We conducted an interview with Calligrapher Seyfullah Yılmazsoy. Calligrapher Yılmazsoy says, “The Art of Calligraphy is in a position to represent the aesthetic feelings of all humanity.”

Hasan Hüseyin Akdağ, in his article titled “Tracing Mimar Sinan in Suha Arın’s Documentaries,” critiques the documentary in which Director Süha Arın recounts the life of Mimar Sinan and explains the remarkable aspects of Sinan.

Abdurrahman Karahan draws attention to the meaning of the city in his article titled “City and Political Economy” and questions the current state of Turkey in terms of economy and culture.

Ömer Emre Akcebe, in his article titled “New World Order 2.0: The Blend of Virtual and Real,” explains that the new world order is set up to completely take over human will, and that man has become part of a devilish order.

M. Taha İnci reviews Faruk Hanoğlu’s work titled “Selma -The Wound Within Us-.”

Bahattin Yeşiloğlu is in our magazine with the third part of his article titled “My Notes.”

In this issue of our magazine, you will also be able to find our work that we have compiled and interpreted for you. Hope to see you in our next issue... May God entrust you to His protection.