Shaykh Ibrahim's Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Discussion about what it takes to become a Human Being. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment...

Send us Fan Mail Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to...

Send us Fan Mail Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to...

Send us Fan Mail We talk about having what it means 'to have two wings to fly'; and the idea of Resurrection. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the...

Send us Fan Mail There is thinking with the head, with the heart, and the combination of both. Thinking with your head means that, when the cultural and familial paradigms are subtracted, one is able to analyse deductively, inductively and reflect on past experiences and apply the knowledge gained from those experiences .  To think with your heart means to engage a spiritual connection. One of the...

Send us Fan Mail Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to...

Send us Fan Mail Listening to your heart; this time of isolation; working for the Divine. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but i...

Send us Fan Mail Consider the Prophets - all prophets - to be our examples of how a human being can work and grow spiritually. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We beli...

Send us Fan Mail A wide-ranging spiritual (Sufi) discussion about Spiritual abuse, connecting with prophets and saints, levels (maqams) of awareness, etc. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling a...

Send us Fan Mail Quotes from Rumi, Hafiz, scientific assistance in healthy neurochemistry. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but...

Send us Fan Mail Sohbet (Spiritual Teachings discussion) Based on readings from Abdul Qadir al Jilani's book- "Secret of Secrets". Continuing with Chapter 4 - 'On Knowledge', in this section, the birth of the Child of the Heart. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will&...

Send us Fan Mail Based on a reading from 'The Secret of Secrets' by Hadrat Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani; Chapter 11: 'The Joy of Being Good and the Misery of the Rebel'. Discussions and questions about basic Sufi Teachings. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help suppo...

Send us Fan Mail Being thankful for what you have, rather what you don't have keeps you positive, allowing you to be able to help others positively. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling an...

Send us Fan Mail A free-ranging spiritual discussion regarding what we learn and what we can apply in our New World of Sheltering in Place. Recorded July 12, 2020 by the Ansari Sufi Order of Australia. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where w...

Send us Fan Mail Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to...

Send us Fan Mail These are Sufi teaching stories. Your job is to decode them to find the spiritual information. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message...

Send us Fan Mail Reflection Allah’s Prophet (peace & blessings upon him) said, “A moment’s reflection is worth more than a year of worship; a moment’s reflection is worth more than seventy years of worship; a moment’s reflection is worth more than a thousand years of worship.” Reflection was important to the Prophet. It would be incumbent upon us to understand what it means and how to apply it...

Send us Fan Mail A beginning collection of the teaching stories of Mulla Nasruddin. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it cost...

Send us Fan Mail Emotions and Feelings Ibrahim ansari Hey, how are you feeling today? Me? I’m feeling kind of nostalgic today. We talk about feelings all the time, but what is the difference between an emotion and a feeling? Well, I have my own idea about these concepts.  I tend to think of feelings as a bank of meters, whose needles are gently swaying back and forth between strong and weak. “It’s...

Send us Fan Mail On Death This apocalyptic year of the pandemic, along with being bestowed with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and chronic back pain, certainly helps keep the awareness of death constant. S/He is always leering at me over my shoulder, keeping tabs on how I go about my day.  Will I do something stupid? Will I eat something beyond my digestive ability? After all thes...

Send us Fan Mail Inspiration To inspire means to breathe in. Not with your upper chest, but with your diaphragm, the part below your ribs. Breathe in. As you hold it, reflect on this miracle. You are filling your lungs with mostly nitrogen, some oxygen, and as you release your breath, you are giving the plants your carbon dioxide. Every breath is a miracle. That should be the first and only inspir...

Send us Fan Mail Propulsion on the Spiritual Path Ibrahim Ansari Sometimes certain realizations or experiences propel us towards a spiritual path:  You realize you know nothing,  What you do know is so infinitesimal it will take just a minute to list them,  you have no power - everything comes from somewhere else. And when you do try to do something…  Your personal will gets in the way,\ You under...

Send us Fan Mail What is a Human Being? Ibrahim Ansari In Sufism we give the title Human Being to someone who is developing compassion, intelligence, patience and surrender. The seven maqams or Stages of Understanding map well the transitions a person makes to achieve a connection with their heart. The strata of comprehension cannot be accessed by the brain alone. Much of the knowledge must happen...

Send us Fan Mail Getting Through Depression I used to get severely depressed - mostly from artistic rejection, lack of money, illogical goals and various naiveté for most of my life. The energy trying to suck me down became more and more visceral, even visual. The closest image I can compare it to is a whirlpool of dark gravity pulling me down. It would start at my feet, move up to my ankles, and...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded live at the Merrylands Centre 16 September, 2011. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will  help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr , Sohbet , spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipm...