Jab Zindagi Shuru Hogi

Jab Zindagi Shuru Hogi — "When Life Begins" — sold more than 150,000 copies of its first edition alone, and is among the most widely read Urdu books of recent decades.

Abu Yahya tells it as a narrative rather than a sermon: an account of what comes after death, followed through the eyes of one man, Abdullah. It has reached readers who would never pick up a book of religious instruction, which is precisely why it has sold the way it has.