The Hikam with Shaykh Zahir Bacchus: Recent Episodes
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This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – by the spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and pure spiritual wisdom.
In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 143rd aphorism of the Hikam : “The believer when praised feels abashed before Allah to be extolled for a trait he does not see in 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 142nd aphorism of the Hikam : “People praise you for what they suppose you to be. So blame your self for for what you know it to be.“ This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 141st aphorism of the Hikam : “Things are affirmed by His affirming them, and effaced by the soleness of His Entity.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 140th aphorism of the Hikam : “He has given you to contemplate things made to exist, but not allowed you to stop with them: Say: ‘Look at what is in the heavens’ —opening to you the door of comprehensions, and He did not say: ‘Look at the […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 139th aphorism of the Hikam : ” He has outwardly manifested everything because He is the Inward. And folded away the existence of everything because He is the Outward.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 138th aphorism of the Hikam : “But for His appearing in things made to exist, perception would not alight on them. Did His attributes appear, the things He makes exist would be obliterated.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 137th aphorism of the Hikam : “Allah is not veiled from you by something that exists apart from Him, for nothing exists apart from Him. But what veils you from Him is imagining that something exists apart from Him.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 136th aphorism of the Hikam : “Were the light of certainty to dawn upon you, you would see the next life closer to you than to have to journey to it. And see the allurements of this life darkened by the pall of mortality upon them.” This […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 135th aphorism of the Hikam : “No one is your friend but he who is so while fully knowing your faults and that is no one but your All-generous Master. The best to be friend of is He who wants you for yourself , not for something […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 134th aphorism of the Hikam : “Whoever honors you is only honoring Allah’s gracious concealment of how you are. So the praise belongs to Him who has concealed you, not him who honors and thanks you.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 133rd aphorism of the Hikam : “Being shielded is of two kinds: being shielded from disobedience, and being shielded in disobedience. The ordinary ask Allah Most High to shield them in disobedience lest they fall from the regard of other people; while the elect ask Allah to […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 132nd aphorism of the Hikam : “When you obey Him, you are more in need of HIs forbearance than when you disobey Him.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 131st aphorism of the Hikam : “But for his graciously concealing how it really is, no deed would merit acceptance. ” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 130th aphorism of the Hikam : “Were you only to reach Him after your misdeeds had all been eliminated, and your pretensions all obliterated, you would never reach Him. But rather, what He wants to make you reach Him, He conceals your nature with His nature , […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 129th aphorism of the Hikam : “Nothing pleads harder for you than utter need, nor is anything faster to bring divine gifts than humiliation and want.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 127th aphorism of the Hikam : “How should there be broken for you the laws of nature, when you have not broken those of your own nature.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 126th aphorism of the Hikam : “He has forbidden you to claim what is not yours of what belongs to other creatures. Should he permit you to claim what He is, when He is Lord of the Worlds?” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 125th aphorism of the Hikam : “Cleave to the attributes of His godhood and realize the attributes of your slavehood.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 124th aphorism of the Hikam : “There will unending things to blame you for, should He return you to yourself; And no finish to things to praise you for, should He manifest His bounty upon you.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 123rd aphorism of the Hikam : “When He wants to manifest HIs favour to you, He creates and then attributes to 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 122nd aphorism of the Hikam : “Do not seek a reward for a work you are not the doer of; It suffices you as a reward for works that it is He who accepts them.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 121st aphorism of the Hikam : “Whenever you seek recompense for a deed, you are called upon to have genuineness in it; While merely getting off free is enough for someone defending his case.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 120th aphorism of the Hikam : “The prayer is a place of holding intimate converse, and a mine-lode of sincerity of love;In which the vistas of secrets extend before one, and there appear at its horizons dawnings of illuminations. He knew of weakness from you, so made […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues with the 119th aphorism of the Hikam : “The prayer is a purifying of hearts from the foulness of sins and a seeking to open the door upon matters that cant be seen.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 119th aphorism of the Hikam : “The prayer is a purifying of hearts from the foulness of sins and a seeking to open the door upon matters that cant be seen.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 118th aphorism of the Hikam : “As the Real knew of impatience in you, He made spiritual works diverse in kind; and as He knew the greediness in you, He withheld them from you at certain times; So that your concern might be to fulfill the prayer, […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 117th aphorism of the Hikam : “He knew you could not bear to be without Him, so He gave you to see what proceeds from Him.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 116th aphorism of the Hikam: “He as ordered you in this adobe to reflect upon created things; but shall reveal to you in that adobe the very perfection of Himself.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 115th aphorism of the Hikam : “Devotees and ascetics are but alienated from everything because they are absent from Allah in everything. If they beheld Him in everything, they would not be alienated by anything.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues covering the 114th aphorism of the Hikam: “The unware considers in the morning what he will do. While the wise consider what Allah will do with him.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues covering the 113th aphorism of the Hikam (third of three parts) : “The coming of divine help is in the measure of one’s preparedness; And the dawning of illumination, of the purity of inmost souls.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues covering the 113th aphorism of the Hikam (second of three parts) : “The coming of divine help is in the measure of one’s preparedness; And the dawning of illumination, of the purity of inmost souls.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus starting covering the 113th aphorism of the Hikam (first of three parts) : “The coming of divine help is in the measure of one’s preparedness; And the dawning of illumination, of the purity of inmost souls.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 112th aphorism of the Hikam: “No one disdains regular spiritual works except an utter fool. Their fruits of it are in Final Adobe, while works end with the end of this one; and the most fitting is to be concerned with is that which nothing else will ever follow. […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 111th aphorism of the Hikam: “Not everyone truly of the elect has yet been freed of shortcomings”. We did not have our normal recording equipment due to technical challenges so apologize for lower sound quality then usual. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 110th aphorism of the Hikam: “Whenever He makes you obedient outwardly to His command and bestows you surrender inwardly to His irresistable power, He has shown you largesse beyond thanking” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 109th aphorism of the Hikam: “Take not your Lord to task that what seek is slow in coming; but take yourself to task that your manners are slow in coming.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 108th aphorism of the Hikam : “Glorious be to the one who has veiled the secret of electhood in the appearance of humanness, and who is manifest through the mightiness of Lordship in the very showing of one’s slavehood.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues to cover the 107th aphorism of the Hikam with this episode also being an overview of how our spiritual approach should be : “It is not to be feared that the paths will confuse you, but only that whims will defeat you.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues to cover the 107th aphorism of the Hikam: “It is not to be feared that the paths will confuse you, but only that whims will defeat 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 107th aphorism of the Hikam: “It is not to be feared that the paths will confuse you, but only that whims will defeat 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 106th aphorism of the Hikam: “Whoever thinks His loving kindness is ever separated from His ordaining fate, does so out of shortsightedness.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 105th aphorism of the Hikam: “Let the pain of tribulation be lightened for you by knowing that it is He Most Glorious who is making the trial of you; For Him from whom you are faced with the blows of fate is He who has accustomed you to His […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 104th aphorism of the Hikam: “He has illumined outward appearances with the lights of His created vestiges; And illumined inmost hearts with the lights of His attributes. This is why the lights of created vestiges set at night, but the lights of hearts and inmost souls never set. And […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 103rd aphorism of the Hikam: “The duress of the gnostic never departs, and he finds no rest in anything but 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 102nd aphorism of the Hikam: “Whenever He releases your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give to 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 101st aphorism of the Hikam: “Whenever He alienates you from His creatures, realize that He wants to open for you the door of intimacy with Him.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 100th aphorism of the Hikam: “Your best moment is that in which you see your neediness, and in which you are returned to your lowliness.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 99th aphorisms of the Hikam: “Your need is intrinsic to you, while the means to fulfill it only appear in order to remind you of what you have overlooked of it. For intrinsic need can not be set aside by things that occur to it.“ This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 97th and 98th aphorisms of the Hikam: “Two blessings that nothing that exists may do without, and every single created being requires: the blessing of being brought into existence, and the blessing of made to continue.” and “He has blessed you first by creating you and second by unceasingly […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 95th and 96th aphorisms of the Hikam: “He sometimes opens the door of worship for you, but not the door of acceptance, and sometimes afflicts you with a sin that turns out to be a means to reach Him.” and “How often a sin that bequeaths humiliation and neediness is better than worship that […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 94th aphorism of the Hikam: “Being withheld from only dismays you because you cannot comprehend what Allah means thereby.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 93rd aphorism of the Hikam: “When He gives to you He shows you His kindness, and when He denies you He is showing you irresistible power. So in both He is disclosing Himself to you, and drawing nigh with His loving kindness unto you.” This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues to cover the 92nd aphorism of the Hikam: “Whoever worships Him for something they hope from Him, or obeys Him to keep chastisement from coming to themselves, has not given His attributes their due.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues to cover the 91st aphorism of the Hikam: “Reward enough for His Servants is what He discloses unto their hearts in His worship, and that which He shows them of His kindliness.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues to cover the 90th aphorism of the Hikam: “It is reward enough for worship that He has accepted you as worthy of it.” Shaykh Zahir also does an overview of themes covered in the hikam so far and reflects on some observations on the recent Umrah trip. This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 89th and 90th aphorisms of the Hikam: “Our Lord is far above the servant dealing with Him in cash and His repaying him in credit.” and “It is reward enough for worship that He has accepted you as worthy of it.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece […]
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Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 88th aphorism of the Hikam: "Being given to by one's fellow creatures is being withheld from while being withheld from Allah is magnanimity.".
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 87th aphorism of the Hikam: “The true ‘reappearing in a far off place’ is that the entire span of this world disappear from you until you see the Next World closer to you than yourself”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues to cover the 86th aphorism of the Hikam: “If you want imperishable glory never seek glory in that which perishes”. A few seconds in the 4th minute of the recording were cut off due to technical challenges. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 86th aphorism of the Hikam: “If you want imperishable glory never seek glory in that which perishes”. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 85th aphorism of the Hikam: ” Created things, their outward is on enticement, while their inward is a sobering lesson, The self looks at their outward enticement while the heart looks at their inward lesson” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 83rd and 84th aphorisms of the Hikam: “He often bestows to you thereby witholds and often witholds from you and thereby bestows” (#83) and “Whenever He opens up to you a way to understand being withheld from, being witheld from becomes itself a gift” (#84). This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 81st and 82nd aphorisms of the Hikam #81 :“Knowers of Allah are more afraid when elated then they are when downcast because those who keep to the limits of good manners when elated are few” and #82:”The ego has its share from elation by the exultation, while being downcast […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 80th aphorism of the Hikam: ” He elates you so as not to keep you in sadness and makes you downcast so as not to abandon you to happiness and brings you forth from both you may belong to none but Him” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece […]
The post 080 – Being Elated or Downcast, and Our Belonging to Him appeared first on SeekersGuidance.
In this episode (second of two parts), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 79th aphorism of the Hikam: ” What a gnostic seeks of Allah Most High is sincerity is slavehood and fulfilling the rights of godhood.” 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 […]
The post 079B – What Gnostics Seek from Allah appeared first on SeekersGuidance.
In this episode (first of two parts), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 79th aphorism of the Hikam: ” What a gnostic seeks of Allah Most High is sincerity is slavehood and fulfilling the rights of godhood.” 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 […]
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In this episode (second of two parts), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 78th aphorism of the Hikam: ” Hope is what is accompanied by a work. Otherwise, it is but a daydream.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 77th aphorism of the Hikam: ” The gnostic is not the one who reers to the spiritual, finds Allah closer to Him than his own reference. Rathar, the gnostic is he who makes no reference because he is annihilated in His being and encomassed in His beholding” This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 76th aphorism of the Hikam: “Sadness over lack of good works without being moved to do any is of the signs that one is deluded” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 75th aphorism of the Hikam: “The best you can ask Him is what He asks of 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 […]
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We apologize for the lower quality of audio as the usual audio recording equipment was unavailable. In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 74th aphorism of the Hikam: ” Whenever he gives you obideince and contentment in HIm from needing it, know that He has lavished His blessings upon you outwardly and inwardly” This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode (second of two parts), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 73rd aphorism of the Hikam: ” If you want to know your worth with Him, look at that in which He keeps 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 […]
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In this episode (first of two parts), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 73rd aphorism of the Hikam: ” If you want to know your worth with Him, look at that in which He keeps 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 72nd aphorism of the Hikam: ” Whoever finds the fruits of his works in this life, it means they shall be accepted in the Next “ 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 71st aphorism of the Hikam: “He has only made the final abode the place to reward His believing servants, because this abode cannot hold what He wants to give them; and because He has too exalted their worth to reward them in an abode of no permanence.” This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 70th aphorism of the Hikam: ” Whoever you see answering everything he is asked, expressing everything he sees and mentioning everything he knows, you can thereby infer is ignorant “ 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 69th aphorism of the Hikam: “Divine experiences seldom come but suddenly, to protect them from servants pretending that they deserve them because of preparedness.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 68th aphorism of the Hikam: “There are people the Truth has created for His service, and there are people He as chosen for His love; ‘ Each do We help, both these and those, of the bestows of your Lord; And your Lord’s gift is never withheld.’ “ This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 67th aphorism of the Hikam: “When you see a servant Allah most high has kept at daily works, letting him abide in them, while finding continuous divine help, by no means despite what his Master has bestowed him, merely because you do see in him, the mien of those of gnosis, or splendour of those […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 66th aphorism of the Hikam: “It is of the ignorance of the disciple to show ill manners and when the penalty is delayed to say ‘Had this been ill behaviour, it would have cut off the divine help and neccasrily caused distance.’ Yet it may be cut off the divine help in […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 65th aphorism of the Hikam: “Fear from His kindness to you and your persistent badness toward Him, that it may all be to lead you unwittingly astray: ‘We shall mislead them unawares whence they know not’ “. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 64th aphorism of the Hikam: “Whoever is unthankful for blessings has made himself liable to lose them. While he who gives thanks for them has made them last with their tethers”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 63rd aphorism of the Hikam: “Whoever does not draw near to Allah by the gentle graces of kindness is led to him by the chains of tribulation”. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 62nd aphorism of the Hikam: “You are free from what you despair and a slave of what you desire”. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 61st aphorism of the Hikam: “Nothing leads you like delusion”. 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. […]
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In this episode (second of two parts on this aphorism), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 60th aphorism of the Hikam: “The branches of a humiliation never grew high except over the sides of a desire (or greed)”. 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 […]
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In this episode (first of two parts on this aphorism), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 60th aphorism of the Hikam: “The branches of a humiliation never grew high except over the sides of a desire (or greed)”. 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 […]
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In this episode (third of three parts on this aphorism), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 59th aphorism of the Hikam: “He has prevented both travellers to Him and those who have reached Him from looking at their works, or beholding their spiritual states: Those travelling, because they have not realized true sincerity to Allah in the, and those who have arrived, because […]
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In this episode (second of three parts on this aphorism), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 59th aphorism of the Hikam: “He has prevented both travelers to Him and those who have reached Him from looking at their works, or beholding their spiritual states: Those traveling, because they have not realized true sincerity to Allah in the, and those who have arrived, because […]
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In this episode (first of three parts on this aphorism), Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 59th aphorism of the Hikam: “He has prevented both travellers to Him and those who have reached Him from looking at their works, or beholding their spiritual states: Those travelling, because they have not realized true sincerity to Allah in the, and those who have arrived, because […]
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We had logistical challenges for this recording so we apologize for the compromised quality of the audio. In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 58th aphorism of the Hikam: “Rejoice not in your obedience, because it came from you; but rejoice in it because it came to you from Allah. ‘Say: in the favour of Allah and His […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 57th aphorism of the Hikam: “Light has to disclose insight to make judgement, and the heart too draw near or away” 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. […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 56th aphorism of the Hikam: “Light is the army of the heart, just as darkness is army of the self. So when Allah wills to help His servant triumph, He succours him with armies of light, and cuts off the aid of darknesses and any besides Him” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 55th aphorism of the Hikam: “Lights are the Riding Mounts of the Heart and the Innermost Soul” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 54th aphorism of the Hikam: “He made spiritual experience come to you to release you from the prison of being you to the vastness of beholding Him.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 53rd aphorism of the Hikam: “He made spiritual experience come to you, to free you from the hand of any besides Him and redeem you from the bondage of his ephemeral traces.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 52nd aphorism of the Hikam: “He has made spiritual experience come to you that you might come to know Him through it.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 51st aphorism of the Hikam: “No work is more hopeful of acceptance than a work now gone from your sight and whose existence means nothing to 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 31st aphorism of the Hikam: ” Travellers to Him are guided by the lights of true yearning. And those who have arrived, they posses the lights of finding. The former the light possess, the latter posses the lights for they belong to Allah and to nothing besides ‘Say Allah and let […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 30th aphorism of the Hikam: ” ‘Let those who are affluent spend of their affluence’ are those who have reached Him. ‘Those whose providence from Allah and has been made narrow, let him spend of what Allah has given to him ‘are those who are travelling“. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 29th aphorism of the Hikam: “What a difference between the person who infers from Him how things are and someone who infers from things that Allah is. Whoever draws their conclusions from Him has realized the truth through what it is entailed by, affirming matter upon its very basis, while […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 28th aphorism of the Hikam: “What is placed in the the hearts appears in testimoney of outward works“. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 27th aphorism of the Hikam: “Whoever is illuminated in the beginning is illuminated at the end”. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 26th aphorism of the Hikam: “From amongst the signs of the success in the endings is returning to Allah in the beginnings“. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 25th aphorism of the Hikam: “Nothing will prove difficult if you seek it through Lord; nothing will prove easy if you seek it through yourself“. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 24th aphorism of the Hikam: “Don’t find it strange that things occur that upset one while you are still in this adobe. For it manifests nothing besides what entails its own attributes.” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 23rd aphorism of the Hikam: “Don’t wait for distractions to stop, for that will prevent you from being watchful of Him in that which He has established you in.” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 22nd aphorism of the Hikam: “Not a breath do you take except He makes something that has been destined for you to occur ” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 21st aphorism of the Hikam: “Your seeking from Him is an accusation of Him. Your seeking after Him is an absence on your part from Him. Your seeking other than Him is of shamelessness towards him.Your seeking other than Him is from remoteness from Him.” This podcast covers “The […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 20th aphorism of the Hikam: “The spirtual ambition of the traveller doesn’t stop from what has been shown to him of the world. If he stops, a voice of reality calls out to him ‘what you seek is still infront of you”. And when the created thing show their charms to […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 19th aphorism of the Hikam: “Do not ask Him to bring you out of a condition that you are in, in order to make use of you in another condition. If Allah wanted He would have used you without taking you out of that condition” This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 18th aphorism of the Hikam: “Postponing works for the presence of free time is from the foolishness of the self”. 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 17th aphorism of the Hikam: “He has not left ignorance in the slightest bit – who wants anything to occur at that moment, except what Allah has manifested in it”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus continues the 16th aphorism of the Hikam: “How is it possible anything can veil Him when He is the one who manifests everything? How is conceivable that you are veiled from Him when He is manifest through everything? How is it conceivable that you are veiled from Him when He is manifest in […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 16th aphorism of the Hikam: “How is it possible anything can veil Him when He is the one who manifests everything? How is conceivable that you are veiled from him when He is manifest through everything? How is it conceivable that you are veiled from Him when He is manifest in […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 15th aphorism of the Hikam: “That which directs to His all conquering power is that He veil you from Him with that which has no existence apart from Him” 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the 14th aphorism of the Hikam: “All of the created univerness is in darkness and it is only ilumned by the perception of Allah. Whoever sees the universe but does not see Him in it, with it, before it or after it is in need of light. The suns of […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the thirteenth (13th) aphorism of the Hikam: “Works vary in kind because inspirations of people’s states do”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written and was 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the twelfth (12th) aphorism of the Hikam: “Nothing helps the heart like seclusion in which it enters into the realm of contemplation”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written and was written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless and […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the eleventh (11th) aphorism of the Hikam: “Bury yourself in the earth of obscurity, for what grows from the unburied yields no harvest”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written and was written by the great spiritual master of 13th/14th century Ibn Ata’illah. The Hikam is a book of spiritual aphorisms containing timeless […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the tenth (10th) aphorism of the Hikam: “Actions are lifeless forms, whose soul is the sincerity within them”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written and was 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the ninth aphorism of the Hikam: “Works vary in kind because inspirations of people’s states do”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written and was 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the eight aphorism of the Hikam: “When He shows a way to know Him, do not mind if along with that your works become less. For he only showed you it, because He wants youth know HIm. Do you not see that He making Himself known to you is something […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the seventh aphorism of the Hikam “Never let the non occruance of something promised make you doubt the promise, even if it was promised for a particular time, because this thinking may vitiate your spiritual vision and dim the light of your innermost soul“. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the sixth aphorism of the Hikam “Do not let the delay of what you have been consistently praying for, discourage you. For he has guaranteed the answer in what He chooses for you, not what you choose for yourself; and in the time He wills and not in the time […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the fifth aphorism of the Hikam “Your striving for what is guaranteed to you and your neglect of what is sought of you is proof of blindness of you spiritual insight”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written and was written by the great spiritual master of […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the fourth aphorism of the Hikam “Relieve yourself of planning. Do not do what someone has undertaken for you.” We apologize for the low quality recording of this episode. Our usual recording equipment was unavailable for this episode. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the third aphorism of the Hikam “”The mightiest ambitions cannot breach the walls of things destined”. This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – written and was 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 […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the second aphorism of the Hikam “Your wanting to leave worldly means while Allah is keeping you in those worldly means is from a hidden desire. Your wanting to take means of this world, while has placed you away from it is a fall from high aspirations“. This podcast covers […]
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In this episode, Shaykh Zahir Bacchus covers the first aphorism of the Hikam “One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.” (Translation is by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller which is available online at masud.co.uk). This podcast covers “The Hikam”, considered a classical masterpiece in spiritual literature – […]
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