Shaykh Zahir

019 – Asking Allah to Change Condition


The Hikam

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 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.