Pain And Being: From the First Wound to the Human Mind

By Muhammad Tâhâ Âlam

Pain And Being: From the First Wound to the Human Mind

What if pain were not an accident of life but the first movement of existence itself?

Pain And Being is a work of speculative phenomenology that begins where most philosophy ends, in the experience of suffering. Muhammad Taha Alam proposes that pain is not a defect within Being but its very origin. It is the first self-affection of reality, the moment when existence awakens from neutrality and becomes aware of itself.

From this premise unfolds a complete metaphysical vision. The book traces the journey of Being from the silence of Non-Being to the emergence of matter, life, consciousness, and ethical awareness. Each stage of existence is seen as a transformation of the original wound that gave rise to reality. Through this vision, compassion and understanding are no longer sentimental virtues but metaphysical acts, expressions of the universe's own attempt to heal itself through consciousness.

Written in luminous and meditative prose, Pain And Being bridges philosophy, spirituality, and phenomenology. It speaks to readers who seek a deeper understanding of existence and of the strange relationship between pain and awakening. This book invites the reader to look beyond suffering as misfortune and to see it instead as the pulse of Being, the fracture through which light first appeared and through which the human mind still remembers its origin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FX226KSY
• ISBN13: 9798270678166
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"