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The Debt of Existence : Paying the Price of Humanity

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A meditation on the hidden weight of being human. The book begins with a simple observation - a cat asleep in a patch of sun, owing nothing to anyone - and contrasts it with the human condition: we are the only creatures who seem to pay rent on our own existence. From the involuntary cry of birth to the final question of what waits beyond death, it traces the "debt" we carry across a lifetime - to our parents, our bodies, our minds, our faith, our societies, and time itself. Across ten parts and twenty-one chapters, it names burdens most people carry in silence: the chains of childhood, the body that betrays, the recursive ache of self-awareness, the loneliness inside crowds, the tyranny of endless choice, the slow surrenders of old age. Yet it is not a book of despair. Its argument turns, in the end, toward a sober tenderness: that the same consciousness which makes existence heavy is what allows us to love, to create, to grieve, and to witness - and that the burden, finally, is the price of the most remarkable experience matter has ever known. Written in a personal, philosophical voice rooted in the author's Omani and Islamic heritage, it weaves Quranic and Prophetic wisdom together with science and lived experience, offering the reader not a solution but companionship.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798199510493
  • ISBN-10: 9798199510493
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: June 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.29 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
  • Page Count: 136

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