title: Life, Death and the Life After
author: Ahmad H. Sakr
description: Dr, Ahmed Sakr obtained his PhD in Illinois in 1966. While studying in America he was a founding member and president of the Muslim Students Association of the U.S.A and Canada currently known as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) , a mother organization in North America. Dr Sakr was also a founding member of the World Council of Mosques whose Head Quarters is in Makkah. He was the first director and representative of the Muslim World League to the Union. He was also the acting president of the American Islamic College in Chicago.
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  **CONTENTS**
  
  Prologue
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Chapter 5
  
  Chapter 6
  
  Chapter 7
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Chapter 9
  
  Chapter 10
  
  Chapter 11
  
  Chapter 12
  
  Chapter 13
  
  Chapter 14
  
  Chapter 15
  
  Chapter 16
  
  Chapter 17
  
  Chapter 18
  
  Chapter 19
  
  Chapter 20
  
  Chapter 21
  
  Chapter 22
  
  Chapter 23
  
  Chapter 24
  
  Chapter 25
  
  Chapter 26
  
  Chapter 27
  
  Chapter 28
  
  Chapter 29
  
  Chapter 30
  
  Chapter 31
  
  Chapter 32
  
  Chapter 33
  
   **Epilogue**
  
   **Bibliography**
  
  Afterword
  
   **Acknowledgements**
  
    
  
  In memory of Aisha Ahmad 1991–2011
  
  You deserved so much more than life gave you.
  
    
  
   _They will come back – come back again,_
  
    
  
   _as long as the red Earth rolls._
  
    
  
   _He never wasted a leaf or a tree._
  
    
  
   _Do you think He would squander souls?_
  
  – Rudyard Kipling, “The Sack of the Gods”
  
    
  
   **PROLOGUE**
  
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