Mokhtar Maghraoui – Spiritual Purification #05 What is the Heart
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The speaker discusses the concept of the physical heart and how it is related to the spiritual aspect of the concept of latif. They explain that the heart is not just a pump, but also a profound physical component that can penetrate anything in the physical realm. The speaker also discusses the concept of the heart's physical aspect and how it is connected to the property and function of the heart.
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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.