Death in Islamic Philosophy
In the view of the materialists death is seen as an evil and an end of conscious existence, something unpleasant and undesirable,an illness that needs to be cured but in Islamic Philosophy death is seen as a perfection and a completion of existence, no t as something undesirable and evil, but as a bridge the connects Man with the object of his desire, namely an eternal life of enduring happiness and felicity. In Islamic Philosophy death is classified into two distinct categories namely a) physical death and b) accidental death. In order to understand death it is important to understand the nature of the human soul. The purpose of the soul's attachment with the body is to attain ontological perfection, and since the soul by reason of its initial existential weakness is unable to subsist and achieve this perfection on its own therefore it needs a material body, that can function as a vehicle for the attainment of the said perfection . The human soul is corporeal in its originatio