02 – Why Do We Die?

The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) taught us not to long for death. But when calamities strike, they can blow the wind out of us, making us forget the purpose of our existence, and, sometimes, making us long for death so that they might end. Hamza unpacks the words of the Holy Prophet (peace […] The post 06- Don’t Long For Death- Shaykh Hamza Karamali appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

We will all, one day, be on the verge of our deaths, staring at the end of our lives, the end of our choices, the end of our actions. We will only take with us what we did before that time. There will be no going back, and there will be nothing more left to […] The post What Should You Do When You Are About To Die?- Shaykh Hamza Karamali appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

How Should We Live?  How should we live? Allah Most High tells us, saying, “O you who have believed”—ya ayyuha alladheena aamanu—“fear Allah continuously”—ittaqu allah haqqa tuqatihi—“and never, ever die unless you are in a state of wholehearted submission.”—wa la tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun. (Qur’an, 3:102) This verse tells us that we should live […] The post 04 – How Should We Live? appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

How Should We Die? Allah Most High answered this question in the Holy Qur’an, saying, “O you who have believed”—ya ayyuha alladheena aamanu—“fear Allah continuously”—ittaqu allah haqqa tuqatihi—“and never, ever die unless you are in a state of wholehearted submission.”—wa la tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun. (Qur’an, 3:102) If you think carefully about the end […] The post 03 – How Should We Die? appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

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 […] The post 02 – Why Do We Die? appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

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? When we die, we stop breathing, our heart […] The post 01 – What is Death? – separation of soul from body appeared first on SeekersGuidance.