POETS AND PROPHETS

Dear Khalid ....

Thank you so much. I always feel that I got more than my due share of love in our friendship over countless years now. I truly appreciate your genuine efforts to take up a very complex and yet interesting subject. My initial feeling was that we would share ideas about “Wahee” as a phenomenon but we kept on shifting grounds to poets then prophets and now to personal stories. May be I did not understand well enough initially.

On this article; there are few very good points in it. Nonetheless, it is hard for me to agree with a large part of your article, which I think is extremely flawed on numerous counts but most of all on approach of "speculative reasoning", which does have a value in certain domains of creative process but it does not bear any value in philosophical or scientific domains.

Reasoning in this style is a slippery slope. You have seen the consequences of such reasoning in terms of US policy in Iraq that lead to war with a lot of human suffering on both Iraqi and US side. When the same style is revolving around philosophical ideas, it can turn philosophy into a myth. I think, you will be willing to pay your due share as a propnent of humanist-philosophy to keep things straight and not base your articles on such reasoning. I must say that I like the idea of intellectual "Sirat-e-Mustakim" (Smile). I have borrowed this term from religion but I think it is worth borrowing. Hope what I am saying, will help us bring the best out (Smile).

By the way, I tried to call you a couple of times but I ended up talking to Zeeshan only. He is a delightful guy. With best regards. Tahir

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