Religions and faith practices have long served as guidebooks for life, offering meaning, structure, and direction for what comes after.

Each belief system offers its own layered and foundation concept of mortality.

To truly understand death, we must not only see it through the physical lens, but also through the spiritual.

This is Last Words Death Perception: Islamic Concepts on Mortality

Meet Dr. Zahid Saqib,

A physician for over 46 years who represents the Islamic Society of Evansville.

In chapter one, he not only walks us through his own origin story - but walks us through the foundational principles of Islam and most of all, how he himself came to know God.

I spent days sitting with Dr.Saqib, reviewing and learning about Islam. From inside the temple, to being invited into his own home.

To understand the concepts of mortality of Islam, you must first understand the foundational concepts of the Islamic Faith.

In this episode Dr.Saqib walks us through:

• ​Growing up in Pakistan as a young boy.
• ​Finding his faith to be defined at 21 years old.
• ​The most important lesson his grandfather imparted to him in over 98 years of life.
• ​Pursuing more about his own faith, while living in a Christian dominant small town society.
• ​Defining the creator in Islam.
• ​The pillars of faith in Islam.
• ​How the Quran is just not a guide for faith, but a guide for life.
• ​How the lens of the next life, is the way to view the present.
• ​The day of judgement

Most of all, how this life serves as a test for the life that comes thereafter.

This is Last Words: Death Perception.

This is Dr.Zahid Saqib.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the guest(s) and do not reflect the views of Last Words Podcast or its producers.