Our soul inevitably passes through route starting from birth, passing through death, and ending with our resurrection in the next life. This route revolves around death, and is strongly marked with events that precede and succeed it. These events include sickness, pre-death and post-death situations, the intermediate life in the grave (al-Barzakh), and periods of sleep that count as minor death. These, and related issues of the soul, are subjects that The Inevitable Journey discusses over a sequence of titles.