Levels Of The Heart - Lataif Al Qalb Pdf

[Cecelia Seiner]

Fromthe teachings of the Heart (Lataif al Qalb), and these are subtle energy points upon the chest, upon the heart, that open the heart into the Divinely Presence. The Levels of the Heart, the subtle energies, and the reality of the heart, is the way and the door to the Divinely Presence. It is a timeless reality.

"These five stations of the heart are the center of the nine points, which represent the locus of revelation and inspiration of the Divine Presence in the heart of the human being. These nine points are located on the chest of each person and they represent nine different hidden states in every human being. Every state is connected to a saint, who has the authority to control that point. If the seeker in the Naqshbandi Way is able to unveil and to make spiritual contact with the authorized master controlling these points, he may be given knowledge of and power to use these nine points, Latifah/Chakra." (From The Naqshbandi Sufi Way Book By Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani).

Stage of Star Formation: The Sun. The Sun is the gravitational center of the solar system. Its gravitational pull is what keeps the planets in place in their orbits. It pours life-giving light, heat, and energy on Earth.

The Secret (Sir ) is the second station of the heart. It represents the spiritual vision. Prophet Nuh (Noah) is responsible for this station of teaching which includes building faith, and safety from ignorance.

Stage of Star Formation: White Dwarf. When the Red Giant passes the Planetary Nebula (Nabiullah (Prophet of Allah), the Most Hidden), what remains of it is a White Dwarf. This is a very small, hot star. White dwarfs have a mass of the Sun, but only 1% of the Sun's luminosity and diameter, approximately the diameter of the Earth. They have a very high density due to gravitational effects, i.e. one spoonful has a mass of several tonnes.

The Hidden (Khafa ) is the fourth station of the heart. It represents physical perfection and the reality of Insan Kamil (Perfected Being). It is under the authority of Sayyidina Isa (Jesus) . He represents the spiritual understanding, reviving the dead, resurrection, and Qiyamah (The Day of Resurrection).

Stage of Star Formation: Neutron Star - Green Pulsar. These stars are produced when a supernova explodes, forcing the protons and electrons to combine to produce a neutron star. Neutron stars are very dense with a mass of three times the Sun but a diameter of only 20 km. Pulsars are believed to be neutron stars that are spinning very rapidly.

Stage of Star Formation: Black Hole. Black holes are believed to form from massive stars at the end of their lifetimes. The gravitational pull in a black hole is so great that nothing can escape from it, not even light. Since no light can get out, people can't see black holes. Black holes can often suck neighbouring matter into them including stars.

The Station of the Qalb (Heart) is symbolized by the Sun. The Sun is the center of the Universe and it holds the Solar System together with its gravitational pull. It pours life-giving light, heat, and energy on Earth. The Heart is the center of our inner universe. The first sense to open in the levels of the heart is the Hearing. The door to the soul is hearing. The Qalb is the state of Ilmiya (knowledge), and this is where all the divinely knowledge comes first.

We move from the first station of Qalb (Heart), to the Sir (Secret) the second station, to the Sirr e Sir (Secret of the Secret), to Khafa (Hidden) and Akhfa (Most Hidden), which is black, and then annihilating and entering into the Divinely Presence. For now we focus just on the Heart; that the entry point for that understanding is the Qalb (Heart) and the secret of that color is yellow. Heart is the Sun of the universe within.

One is the exterior masjid (mosque) we build for Allah , that we all want for our communities, but more important is that all the people who are involved in the masjid to also be building the masjid that He gave us within ourselves. It means that to make the heart of the believer the House of Allah .

In the understanding of the subtle energy points of the lataif, that we have 360 lataifs on the body. Also there were 360 idols in Makkah, which is not a random number. Everything Allah describes is perfectly numbered.

It means the concept of the idol is the false god, that which you worship other than Allah . It could be a desire, could be a deceit, could be a person, it could be anything that takes us away from the reality of worshipping Allah .

Our life is to destroy those idols, destroy those desires, destroy all those bad characteristics and perfect the whole 360 degrees that makes the circle. The circle, like the hand, that you want it to be kamil, perfected, and to understand the way of perfection.

So many people focus on teachings of the body and the form. They come and the guides begin to teach us that discipline the form with Islam, which means submission. It means use your practices to discipline the form and to bring the bad characteristics of the form down, and to begin to move into the oceans of realities and the oceans of light.

From the teachings of the lataif (Levels of the Heart), that they are subtle energy points upon the heart, that open the heart into the Divinely Presence. We must understand that our whole body is like satellite dishes, 360 different subtle energy points of the body that pick up these energies and they support us. It means that we are an energy being. The food that we eat is for the physicality but the spirituality and the energy and power that Allah is sending is to the soul.

For Awliyaullah (Saints), their focus is on the points within the chest, and the Qalb (heart). From the understanding of the lataif, and trying to focus on the lataif, knowledge of the lataif, and how important they are.

We have discussed in many other teachings that it has enormous layers of reality. Once you begin to study this concept of the lataif (Levels of the Heart), you see that many of the dhikrs are in this understanding. Our salah (daily prayer) is in this understanding; it means it holds the basis of moving into the Divinely Presence.

It means that everything in our life is going to be based on the understanding of these lataifs (Levels of the Heart); from the seasons to the timing of the day, to the reality of each of the prophets, to every colour and its significance. This means that many, many oceans of reality begin to open from that understanding, but again backed with all the chanting and practices.

We said before when you breathe, your life is based on breath. All masters came and taught that our way is based on the breath. If you watch the physiology of the body, that when you breathe, that breath comes in and the lungs take the breath then they take the energy, the nourishment of that breath, and they send the blood directly into the heart. Then the heart now has to deal with the blood; the heart now has to process that breath. The heart has to then stamp that blood and send it to all the organs of the body.

As we begin to polish and polish and polish, what happens is you will begin to take on the reflection of the master, the teachers. By keeping their company, by keeping our practices, by keeping our chanting, and by keeping our way is polishing, polishing, polishing, so that they can begin to reflect that perfection onto us.

In the time of Nabi Musa , the Ahd (Covenant), was the Ark of the Covenant, because everything was an imitation for the arrival of Sayyidina Muhammad . So they had the Tablets and they put it in a Box and the four angels held the Box and everywhere they moved they were victorious. That was symbolic of the Divine Presence at the maqaam (station) of Sayyidina Musa .

The greatness of Sayyidina Muhammad is that he is the custodian of all realities. It means when he arrived upon Earth, the real Covenant, the real Ahad of Allah , opened upon Earth. That is the heart of the believer. This is the Covenant that Prophet brought. Allah says, I am not in Heaven, I am not on Earth, I am not in that Box, I am not anywhere but I am in the heart of My Believer.

Lataif-e-sitta (Arabic: اللطائف الستة) are special organs of perception in Sufi spiritual psychology, subtle human capacities for experience or action. Depending on context, the lataif are also understood to be the qualities (or forms) of consciousness[1] corresponding to those experiences or actions.

This integration of the lataif into Qalb is considered by some Sufi orders to be a central part of the comprehensive spiritual development that produces the Sufi ideal of a Complete Man (Al-Insān al-Kāmil).

In addition, individual Sufi teachers (see Sheikh (Sufism)) sometimes understand aspects of lataif theory and practice according to how the lataif have been uniquely revealed to them.[4]

The attainment of each level is a stage associated with the activation/realization of a corresponding spiritual organ/capacity, interpreted symbolically through Islamic cosmology and the prophets and messengers in Islam.[7]

According to the view of the Mujaddidiyya branch of the Naqshbandi order there are five lataif.[8] The reception of each latifa's spiritual energy from its corresponding cosmic realm is interpreted symbolically through the prophets and messengers in Islam, similar to the interpretation of the Kubrawi order:

In the Khwajagan tradition, Rif'at Bey described a practice in which the name of Allah is imagined "written in letters of light" at the physical location associated with a latifa and repeated silently until the color associated with it is seen surrounding the letters.[14]

In the Mujaddidiyya tradition, the lataif are opened through practice one-by-one in "ascending" order, beginning with Qalb. Viewed as a progressive activation, each latifa (or progressive combination of Lataif) is considered to be a level of spiritual realization.

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