135 – The Best of Friends – The Hikam – Shaykh Zahir Bacchus
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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 that returns to Him 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.