Publisher's Synopsis
A MESSAGE FROM BEYOND THE ESSENCE is a story based on reality that has recently happened and its character is a boy, who, tired of the repetitions of life, is moving towards the future in search of a fundamental change. In fact, he is also one of the inhabitants of the same world where we all belong. The residents of this earthly world have come together with a diverse range of material and nonmaterial beliefs to be called the human community of the earth. The boy of the story is also standing at a point on such a spectrum of thoughts, but he who is plagued by the tumult of the world around him, is always dreaming of a journey, however he himself doesn't know how it will be. Though his body seems to be strapped to the geographic coordinates of his earthly planet, in his quest for emancipation from inherited repetitions from his ancestors, he eventually on the wings of his thoughts will free himself from the attractions of the material world, and unknowingly will be led to a strange path that will take him towards new unknown conceptualizations, the concepts that originate from very simple definitions and gradually will take amazing forms. In the middle of the way, the boy feels unable to return to his past world because his body and his soul are immersed in those new fundamental concepts and however at that time he is still unaware of the end of his story. Although the story of essence, like all the stories of history, is being formed by the placement of words on the whiteness of pages, it is the pattern of the boy's steps, which forms such a story of wonders that will change the melody of the future people's lives. The boy of the story, facing with a new concept named "mahiyat /'m??hi?jæt/" in his thoughts, which is similar in meaning to the word ESSENCE, and by providing a simple and precise definition for it, redefines the story of his life and will find himself on a straight path that will never let him return to his dark meaningless past life. The impacts of the fundamental concepts of mahiyat on this book's audience, which will result in chain effects on the life of the future societies, although has already begun in your mind, as the story of mahiyat is essentially the story of liberation of human body from the alluring charms of the world of matter and the emancipation of his soul from those dark painful concepts of the past life, so this is not the narrator of the story himself, but the spirit of the book of mahiyat, which leads the pen in such writings. In fact, the full understanding of the story of mahiyat requires a high concentration alongside abundant interest and motivation to discover the truth and therefore those who understand the story of mahiyat, will be its propagators in the future. Khashayar Ebrahimi Sahneh
