Mokhtar Maghraoui – Spiritual Purification #05 What is the Heart

The Kalb

is this again also, the Lapif Arab Bani,

another Lapif Arab Bani,

another

divine

Lapif

creation.

You know, Latif is in the Arabic language

and as,

in opposition to,

to kathif.

Katif is literally dense.

The

physique of a human being is dense, is

kathif. The roh of a human being is

lapif.

So that lapif nature

makes that latif

creation of Allah

that latif

thing,

be in different dimensions

in ways we do not comprehend in the

physical sense.

Just keep in mind, for example, that,

that photons

are at some level a Latif creation because

photons of light,

light photons

can

can,

penetrate

the physical realm in ways

other thick or kathif

creatures do not. If you go even beyond

to the concept of,

of of other, you

know,

sub particles,

that,

the neutrinos that that can penetrate

anything you can think of materialism. That's Allah

Qif creation of Allah Azzawajal.

We remember we do not know the real

appearance and nature of angels. We have manifestations

of that that sometimes are said to be

experienced by some.

But really, what is a photon? What is

a neutrino?

Allah only knows in their essential realities

that can penetrate

the anything,

especially the neutrinos, anything in the physical realm.

So the is first of all,

from this word latif

that I tried to here explain briefly.

So it's a divine.

And how does it relate to this physical

heart that we have?

Our ulama,

our auliya,

our sages

of old and our predecessors, our salafar

When they spoke of that, they say that

heart from what they understood

from the Quran and the sunnah of

and what Allah bestowed upon them of favors

and grace of understanding and of experiencing,

such as Limam al Ghazali and before him

and after him, Rahimamullah Ta'ala Jameeran,

that this

that we speak about in this tazkiyah

concept, in this spiritual concept,

is that latifa that is somehow related somehow

imperceptibly

related

to this Sanobari

heart inside of us, to this physical

heart inside of us in the form of

an acorn inside

of us.

But it's not it.

But it's not it.

Until nowadays, there is a lot a lot

that we do not know

about the essential reality, even the physical

reality

of the physical Kalb.

I do not want at this point to

delve into some recent discoveries and recent research

in the field of science

about

what now we are learning

about the heart which we never

knew before or when before and still some

people still think that way nowadays

that the heart is no different than a

pump. It's simply a pump. The heart is

not simply a pump.

The heart is much more than that. It's

much more profound than that, even this physical

heart. And yet, and even when we connected

to this

spiritual dimension

of the ruhe

and of this lata'if,

then

other things come in. So and therefore, we

hear Allah in the Quran,

for example, telling us,

Why don't they ponder and walk on earth

and ponder and reflect?

Or do they not have

hearts

with which

yaqilun

and yaqilun is a is an active

form, it's a verb.

By the way, you do not find in

the Quran the noun,

but you find the active form of,

which

is and so on, which is actively

being aware of something,

being in restraint and restraining

and

controlling,

that is.

And therefore,

And Allah

in this ayah and other ayah of the

Quran

connects

the the property or the function,

the active

function of aql, of restraint, of control

to the heart.

To the heart.

Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Rasulullah

says, we can say more but we need

to be brief.

Verily, indeed,

within the human body,

there is a.

A is something

you, you know, you chew,

a bite that you can chew.

A bite,

but made of flesh.

That is, in other words, you know, the

size of the heart is not very big

for a human being.

If that

that peace is upright,

then the entire person, the entire body is

upright.

And if it is spoiled, the entire person

is spoiled.

That's the essential of our kulub.

What identifies and characterizes of our kulub

will identify

who we really are and what we really

are. So that's why we connect the nafs

to the qalb by the fact that tazgiyah

is a means by which I keep my

heart free

from my low states of my nafs.