Shaykh Zahir

024 – Things of This World will Upset You


The Hikam

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 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.