What if a child’s innocent question could unravel a man’s entire faith?

In Show Me God, one of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s most haunting and celebrated stories, a young boy’s simple question to his father—“Can you show me God?”—sets off a profound and perilous journey of belief, doubt, and despair. The father’s desperate search for a glimpse of the divine becomes a mirror for humanity’s eternal struggle to understand existence itself, ending in tragedy and revelation.

Collected here with seventeen other philosophical tales, the book showcases al-Hakim’s mastery of dialogue and subtle irony. Each story begins with a deceptively simple question and unfolds into a deep meditation on truth, morality, and the human condition.

Elegant, provocative, and timeless, this collection captures drama in its purest form, where simplicity conceals complexity and every answer leads to another question. It remains one of al-Hakim’s most powerful explorations of the boundaries between faith and reason.