The Hikam with Shaykh Zahir Bacchus

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 41st aphorism of the Hikam: “How strange – totally strange- that one should flee from him whom One has no separation from and seek after that which has no existence or Will not last besides Him. ‘Truly it is not the eyes that are blind but it is the hearts within breaata that are blind’ ”  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 041 – Don’t Flee from Allah appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 40th aphorism of the Hikam: “If you do not think the best of Allah because of His intrinsic goodness then think best of Him because of His dealings with you.  Has he ever bestowed upon you anything but good? He has ever given to (vouchsafed) you anything but gifts?“ 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 040 – Good Opinion of Allah appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 39th aphorism of the Hikam: “If you do not think the best of Allah because of His intrinsic goodness then think best of Him because of His dealings with you.  Has he ever bestowed upon you anything but good? Has He ever given to you anything but gifts?” 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 039 – Only Ask Allah for Help appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 38th aphorism of the Hikam: “Do not let the intention of your spiritual ambition attach itself to other than Him for hopes cannot step higher then the Most Generous”.  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 038 – Connecting Our Spiritual Ambition to Allah appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 37th aphorism of the Hikam: ” ‘Allah was and there was nothing besides Him’ and He is now as he was ever”  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 037 – Reality of the Divine appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 36th aphorism of the Hikam: “The rays of mystic vision show you His closeness to you. The eye of the mystic vision shows you hour nonbeing in the face of His being.  The truth of the mystic vision shows you His being, neither your nonbeing, nor your being.”  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 036 – The Rays and Truth of the Mystic Vision appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 35th aphorism of the Hikam: “The source of every disobedience, heedlessness and desire  is being pleased with the self and the source of every obedience, awareness and self respect is your not being pleased with the self. To keep the company of an ignoramus who is not pleased with himself is better for you than to keep the company of a scholar who is pleased with himself, for what ignorance does an ignoramus have who is not pleased with himself and what knowledge does a scholar have who is not pleased with himself .”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 035 – Being Pleased with Oneself and Choosing One’s Teachers appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 34th aphorism of the Hikam: “Leave every trait of your humanness incompatible with your slavehood, that you may answer the call of the Real and be nigh to His presence ” . 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 034 – Leave Every Trait of Your Humanness appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 33rd aphorism of the Hikam: “The Real is not veiled from you but is you who are veiled from Him. Were He veiled by anything, it would conceal Him and if it concealed Him, it would delimit His being.  Anything that delimits something dominates it whereas ‘He is the indomitable over His servants’ ” . 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 033- Allah is Not Veiled from You appeared first on SeekersGuidance.

In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 32nd aphorism of the Hikam: “Your keenness to know faults hidden within you is better for you than your keenness to know secrets hidden from you” . 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 032 – Know Your Own Faults appeared first on SeekersGuidance.