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THE REALITY OF EXISTENCE | حقيقة الوجود والمعنى — Why Anything Exists at All — Institutional Research & Book Framework Edition

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Abstract

THE REALITY OF EXISTENCE | حقيقة الوجود والمعنى by Syed Raheel Shahzad is Stage 0 of The Source of Truth System™ and the foundation on which every later question in the system depends. The work begins before doctrinal commitment and asks whether existence itself can be treated as an unexplained remainder, or whether contingency, intelligibility, order, consciousness, value and the human demand for meaning require a deeper account. This institutional research and book framework edition presents the book’s philosophical architecture without reproducing the full manuscript. It distinguishes observation from explanation, physical description from metaphysical grounding, and scientific models from the prior question of why there is a reality for any model to describe. The dossier places the book in conversation with classical and contemporary arguments concerning sufficient reason, contingency, necessary existence and brute fact, while also clarifying the limits of what such arguments can establish. Its purpose is not to turn cosmology into theology by shortcut. It is to restore the question of reality to the beginning of the human inquiry and to show why the next stage must ask whether the Source of reality has communicated.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-14

Authors: Syed Raheel Shahzad

Institutions: Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology