Why do we die? A materialist might answer that we die because our body stops working—our breathing, our heartbeat, our brain activity, everything, stops. We saw in the previous episode that this materialist is wrong—we are not our bodies, but our souls, and although our death is accompanied by bodily changes, it is not those […]

Remembering Death and the Afterlife with Shaykh Hamza Karamali

02 – Why Do We Die?

Allah Most High says in the Qur’an, “Every soul will, without doubt, fully experience death.” (3:185, 21:35, 29:57) We will all die. You will die, I will die, and everyone that we all know will die. But what exactly does it mean to die? What is death? In this series, Shaykh Hamza Karamali will relate and explain many other Qur’anic verses and prophetic hadiths that describe what happens after we die.

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Remembering Death and the Afterlife with Shaykh Hamza Karamali