Dear Prof. Abdullah,
Ba Salam,
Hope you and your beloved ones are in a very healthy state and things are going well as always with your fundamental projects and research. That night we had together in Tehran and the discussions are still in my mind. I became profoundly pleased to see that, despite all the depressions and disappointment I felt in Iran especially by talking to other close and talented friends, your mind was the strongest and your face was the most cheerful and most positively-looking one I witnessed. It was in fact not a surprise given your unique personality which has inspired and continues to inspire many your students including myself. If Iran is still standing up and alive, it is indeed due to the continuous efforts of some great minds such as you and alike who have chosen to stay in their native land to make it a better place for the current and future generation. I always regard you as the one good example of an individual to whom failure and surrender are only two meaningless words. I really appreciate your being and attitudes.
As I grow older, I learn more. And as I learn more, more and more questions emerging in my views about this existence. I appreciate this time and place, Canada, which has given me much time to learn, think, and appreciate the importance of science and technology in every day's life and enhancing its quality. It is indeed remarkable to experience, as I grow older, the accumulation of knowledge by human and the consequences of the intense works done by scientists and curious men. I highly respect people who pursued their goals and contributed to the comfort and knowledge of today. I can feel clearer and clearer how our brain is made curious to try new things and discover the unknowns. I wish at that night, we had talked more about science and I had questioned your view about some of the very most recent progress of our understanding about ourselves and the universe we are living in. I wish I knew about your comments and point of views on DNA coding, the richest source of data and information which has hard-programmed in us the smartness.
My most remembered teacher in my life, what do you see in scientific advancements which proves everyday stronger than the previous day that we are better explained as a very complicated bio-micro machines of molecules than any vague description of "soul" which our old religious scripts taught us in school? What standing can one take when presented with very unanimously accepted evidences that Big Bang- known lately as fact not theory- was in fact the earliest state of every being which happened by sience-supported calculation at 13.73 ± 0.12 billion years ago? How does that ever change one's old belief of the creation story suggested by holy scripts?
Did you talk to your university professors lately to let them know about your progress and the projects you have successfully accomplished? Does your old physics teacher know that at least one of his student effectively utilized the lessons he learned to increase the productivity of EDM which not only raised at its own capacity the comfort and quality of life, but also will facilitate building more infrastructures for the next generation to even discover more? I really hope one day I could get an opportunity to invite you and walk with you in my workplace where I hopefully have some new systems developed and I can then proudly show them to you and call: Look my teacher! Look this, look how your student has learned from all the lessons you taught him, to integrate such a technology together to make this earth a more enjoyable place to live.
My best wishes,
Mohsen
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