MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Jasser Auda

President of Maqasid Institute Global

COURSE OVERVIEW

We invite everyone to a spiritual journey towards heartfelt changes in ourselves. In this course, we embark on a spiritual journey to our Lord. Our teacher is a scholar who mastered the knowledge of the apparent and the knowledge of the soul. He is Ibn Ata, Master, Imam, and Shaykh Ibn Ata-Allah al-Sakandari (may God have mercy on him), a great authority in Islamic spirituality, Islamic Law, Hadith science, Arabic language, and other branches of knowledge.

Ibn Ata’s words of wisdom (hikam) are meant to be a step-by-step spiritual journey to God, in the true sense of the word, from its start to its end, along with the steps that Ibn Ata mastered and prescribed. This series is a selection of thirty of these hikam, presented in the form of “steps” along one’s journey to/with God.

COURSE CONTENT

•  Unit 1 – The Start of the Journey
•  Unit 2 – First Step: Repentance and Hope
•  Unit 3 – Second Step: The Dominance of the Universal Laws of God
•  Unit 4 – Third Step: Relying on God
•  Unit 5 – Fourth Step: Sincerity to God
•  Unit 6 – Fifth Step: Reflection
•  Unit 7 – Sixth Step: Purification Before Shining
•  Unit 8 – Seventh Step: Seizing Time
•  Unit 9 – Eighth Step: Patience with Tests
•  Unit 10 – Ninth Step: Perfecting the Beginnings
•  Unit 11 – Tenth Step: Discovering One’s Flaws
•  Unit 12 – Eleventh Step: Self-Criticism (Private)
•  Unit 13 – Twelfth Step: Good Friends
•  Unit 14 – Thirteenth Step: Keeping up with Mentioning God
•  Unit 15 – Fourteenth Step: Freedom from Humiliation, Neediness, and Illusion
•  Unit 16 – Fifteenth Step: Thanking God for His Blessings
•  Unit 17 – Sixteenth Step: Understanding God’s Giving and Depriving
•  Unit 18 – Seventeenth Step: Enjoying God’s Company and Praying to Him
•  Unit 19 – Eighteenth Step: Ascending in the Levels of Worship
•  Unit 20 – Nineteenth Step: Calls of Distress
•  Unit 21 – Twentieth Step: Certainty of Faith and Indifference about the World
•  Unit 22 – Twenty-First Step: Dealing with People’s Praise
•  Unit 23 – Twenty-Second Step: Mercy with People’s Faults
•  Unit 24 – Twenty-Third Step: Witnessing God’s Bounty and Your Shortcomings
•  Unit 25 – Twenty-Fourth Step: Keeping Priorities Straight
•  Unit 26 – Twenty-Fifth Step: Telling People about Their Lord
•  Unit 27 – Twenty-Sixth Step: Satisfaction
•  Unit 28 – Twenty-Seventh Step: Humbleness
•  Unit 29 – Twenty-Eighth Step: A Blessed Life and a Continuous Impact
•  Unit 30 – Conclusion: Re-Starting the Journey

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