The Hikam with Shaykh Zahir Bacchus

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 50th aphorism of the Hikam: “There is no  minor sin when you are faced with His justice and no major sin when you are met with His favour.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 050 – Our Sins in Light of His Justice and His Favour appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 49th aphorism of the Hikam: “Let no sin loom so large in your eyes that it stops you from hoping the best from Allah for whoever knows his Lord deems own sin paltry in the face of his generosity.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 049 – Our Sins Versus His Generosity appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 48th aphorism of the Hikam: “One of the signs of the death if the heart is lack of sadness over what you have missed of acts of worship and being being without regret over that which you have committed of misdeeds.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 048 – One of the Signs of a Dead Heart appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 47th aphorism of the Hikam: “Do not leave an invocation because of your lack of presence of  Allah therein; for your forgetfulness of His invocation is worse then your forgetfulness in His invocation. It may well happen that He lifts you from invocation of remembrance with forgetfulness to invocation of awareness and invocation with awareness to invocation with presence and invocation with presence to invocation in which there is absence of everything besides Him who is invoked. And that is not difficult for Allah .” This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 047 – Leaving Invocations Due Lack of Presence Therein appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 46th aphorism of the Hikam: “Good deeds result from good states and good states comes  from realization in the stations in which one has been placed.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is  a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 046 – Good Deeds Result From Good States appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

Classes have resumed after a Ramadan and summer break.  In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 45th aphorism of the Hikam: “No Work is small that comes from an abstinent heart and no work is great that comes from a greedy heart.“ This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 045 – Our Hearts and Our Works appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 44th aphorism of the Hikam: “Perhaps you were in a bad state and your goodness was shown to you by companionship of someone who is in a worse state than you are” This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is  a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 044 – Keeping the Company of Someone Even Worse appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues covering the 43rd aphorism of the Hikam: “Do not keep the company of anyone whose states does not awaken you or words do not direct you towards Allah”.  This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 043B – Seeking Good Companionship (Part II) appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 43rd aphorism of the Hikam: “Do not keep the company of anyone whose states does not awaken you or words do not direct you towards Allah”.  This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is  a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 043 – Seeking Good Companionship appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 42nd aphorism of the Hikam: “Do not  travel from one created thing to another, so that you become like a donkey turning a millstone. The place it walks along and the place it is going to, is the place it has just came from.  Rather journey from created things to the Creator and “to your Lord is the final destination”. Consider the words of the Prophet (please and blessings be upon him) ‘Whoever’s emigration is to Allah and his messenger, his emigration is truly to Allah and his messenger. Whosever emigration is for worldliness they are want to attain or a woman he wants to wed them his immigration is for The thing they want to emigrate to.’  Perfect  on this if you possess understanding.”  This podcast covers “The Hikam”,  considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom. Shaykh Zahir is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lote Tree Foundation. He also serves was the Imam at the Jamiat-ul-Ansar Masjid in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Checkout all of the SeekersHub podcasts by visiting http://seekershub.org/podcasts/ The post 042 – Don’t be like Donkey Turning a Millstone appeared first on SeekersGuidance.