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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Encounter at the Hospital Part 6: Another Meeting Warqa posted the letter the following day and waited for Miyad to fix a date for their next meeting. A letter soon arrived and Warqa planned to meet her friend at the hospital the next day. Warqa told her grandmother she would be late in coming home and she went to the hospital directly from college. She waited a moment to calm down and then knocked on the doctor's door. Dr.

Miyad met her with a bright face, and Warqa felt like crying. The doctor said, "Welcome, dear. I have missed you very much, as if I had lived with you all my life." "I have also suffered a lot. God knows how worried I was that you might be angry at me." "Why should 1?" asked Dr. Miyad. "You are free to make your own choice. Perhaps you think that my brother is not good enough for you." "Please don't say that. What happened was not my own decision.

I was satisfied with what you told me about him." "What then?" "It was my grandmother," Warqa confessed. “Has she given a reason?" Warqa became confused and remained silent, but the doctor repeated her question and Warqa told her, "There is a reason." "A good enough reason for your refusal?" "Yes." "Then I won't insist on discussing it further. Let us keep our friendship," said Dr. Miyad. "Yes, please. I feel quite at ease with you. I was very upset these past few days.

I have many girlfriends, but you are the most trustworthy one. I have had difficult times, but never one such as giving up your friendship." "Forget it, and be sure of our friendship," said Dr. Miyad reassuringly. "Now we must continue our discussion," said Warqa. "You promised to explain the relationship between empiricists and science." "What do you know about empiricists?” asked the doctor. "They rely on observation and experiments, not on theory.

They deny the role of brain and rational reasoning. Every issue should be proved through experimenting." "Right," said Dr. Miyad. "So we shall refer to this fact in our arguments. If a piece of iron is kept near fire, it expands, so the general rule is that fire causes the expansion of metals. This is accepted through observation of iron, but the general rule is a mental calculation. The brain produces such knowledge." "It is quite interesting," noted Warqa. Dr.

Miyad continued, "There is something else; the thesis and anti-thesis doctrine. Opponents never agree.