REFERENCE Nikhat Sattar’s article ‘Faith & rationality’ (Feb 24). Logical fallacies do come up while interpreting texts of any kind, including religious ones. But testing contents of faith on reason is a walk on tight-rope. It would be problematic to test the contents of Faith (God, Book revelation, Spirit, hidden truth ) on the scale of logic.

The basic premise of religion (one has to accept a few things as presented) will be destroyed the moment one applies logic to get that. Once you accept the basic tenets of faith as such, then the whole building of religion can be understood by applying logic as the writer suggests by quoting the Holy Quran.

Name withheld on request

Rawalpindi

Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2017