A Mother’s Affliction

Contemporary

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This book is about destiny, fate, and affliction. Human existence lies between trials and afflictions in this worldly life. Allah Almighty may test a human with blessings to see their thankfulness, or with hardship to see if they will show steadfastness and nobility by obeying Him, or disgrace in rebelling against Him, although there is no way to reach His good pleasure and mercy except through His grace. None can intercede with Him except by His permission and mercy.

This book is also about humanity when it comes to different beliefs. Humanity is like a tree: every mother is a branch of its branches, and every child is a leaf of its leaves. It is all one and the same tree from the time of Adam and Eve, peace be upon them, until the last departing human soul. How can leaves growing on the same branch have different beliefs? Can this be God’s will? Some will say yes, while others will say no.

Ahmed Tolba is a devoted husband, loving father, accomplished lawyer, and passionate writer whose life and work are guided by a deep reverence for human experience. He was born on June 2, 1977, in Cairo, Egypt, a city where the ancient and the eternal coexist, and where questions about life, death, and what comes after echoes for millennia.

Though studied and practiced law, Ahmed’s life has been shaped less by professional designation than by a sustained devotion to thought. From an early age, he has been drawn to reading, reflection, and the quiet discipline of writing.

For Ahmed, thinking is not the pursuit of answers but an openness to questions that resist closure. His work grows out of careful attention to language, silence, and the tension between reason and uncertainty. He approaches writing as a philosophical act, a space in which ideas are tested, clarified, and sometimes undone. Reading, in this sense, becomes a form of dialogue across time, and writing a continuation of that dialogue in his own voice.

Over the years, Ahmed has published numerous books internationally. Yet publication, for him, is not an endpoint. Each book marks a moment within a longer intellectual journey, an attempt to articulate what remains difficult to name. His writing reflects a balance between analytical rigor and contemplative depth, shaped by both disciplined learning and lived experience.

Underlying Ahmed’s work is a persistent concern with meaning, time, and the conditions of understanding. He is interested in how thought unfolds slowly, how ideas mature through patience, and how clarity often emerges only after sustained uncertainty. Rather than offering doctrines or systems, his writing invites readers into reflection, asking them to dwell with questions rather than resolve them too quickly.

Ahmed continues to read and write as forms of attention to the purpose and to the self. His work stands as an ongoing meditation on thought, its responsibilities, and its quiet power to illuminate human experience.