Mokhtar Maghraoui – Spiritual Purification #07 What is the Aql What is the inter relationship between my Soul, Self, Heart and Intellect

If you could look at,

these

these essential realities of the,

the,

the,

if we could look at them in, on

a board, on a piece of paper,

which is a projection. First of all, projection

from the dimension of the and

then you project it in this our concept

of 3 dimensions,

and then you project that on paper.

So remember what you are missing in the

projections, these are projections

only.

The Kalb, first of all, the Kalb in

its dimension,

it's not in 3 dimensions. Remember, we said

the Kalb that we speak of is

this that is somehow related to this 3

3-dimensional Kalb inside of us so that's a

projection first of all from higher dimensions

to a 3-dimensional Alba

and then that we're going to project on

a piece of paper 2 dimensions

keep that in mind and so on so

if we did something like that to approximate

it to our understanding,

we'd see the following, we'd see the Kalb

in the middle,

the center

piece.

And then we see above

symbolizing here a higher dimension.

We see above that, the ruha.

And we see below the heart symbolizing and

signifying

a lower dimension

in terms of spiritual quality

and in terms of human awareness

and quality of awareness rather.

We we will see the nafs

and then

lower

than the qalb,

away from the nafs and

the the ruah

will

see will depict something,

the aqal. The aqal is loosely translated as

the mind

or reason.

In the Arabic language, in the Qur'anic language,

that's not it.

The haqqal,

as as I mentioned in the Quran, is

not mentioned

in the nominative form, it's mentioned only in

the active,

in the active

way, the active form as a verb

and that means to restrain and to control.

It is to say that if this Aql,

whichever way I call it reason or mind

or so, in this in this Islamic spiritual

psychology

and reality, essential reality,

if this aql that I call aql does

not help me be restrained

and controlled

against the drives

that are base and law of the nafs

and others, then we do not call that

aqal.

We do not call

that.

Call it something else. Call it reason or

mind, but it is not.

If reason and mind is

in this sense, then that it is reason

and mind in that in

the sense.

That's why somebody

can have a high

high IQ.

Let's say

IQ.

IQ but has

low

SQ,

spiritual

q.

I can even say one can have high

IQ

but has a low aql q.

IQ,

you know intelligence

quotient. But that I is also

I.

One can have a high I

self

quotient and awareness,

But he doesn't have an eye

cue.

Eye is the eye.

The eye with which to see internally

that could be very low.

And the aqalq,

the quotient and the ability and the capacity

to be in control and to be restrained.

That could be very low as well.

And the spiritual quotient itself

of the Rauhani

Qalb kind could be very low. A person

could be very able

in solving math problems, in solving engineering problems,

in solving, you know,

tactics

to solve problems in Al-'Adalik,

but morally and ethically and spiritually

is perhaps

very weak.

So sometimes we are unable to control ourselves

in front of an emotional challenge, while we

could be very intelligent in solving math problems.

I could have a IQ, but a very

low emotional, for example, cue, spiritual cue, moral

cue,

and and so on.

So now

that projection that I mentioned, the heart at

the center, the ruh above, the nafs below,

and the aql

receiving

receiving

orders from the Kalb.

The aqul would be like the executive

director

in the old system of of of of,

for example, of monarchies,

in the Sultanate

system or the the royal system, the hilafat

system, then

the next

authority

after the the

the king and the sovereign is what?

We say the wazir,

the wazir.

And once the king's

iaraada,

the king's volition and will is expressed

the wazir

executes

through the agencies

under the wazir

Our Kalb is that king.

Once we have an iaraada,

an iaraada is emotion

inside of us, not physical,

is an emotional motion, is an intellectual motion,

is a drive inside of us. That's an

irada.

It is received by that which we call

aqal,

as an order, and then aqal commands

the senses and the limbs

to execute.

My eyes, my ears, my hands, my speech,

my tongue, and so on all are there

to execute

the will of that

aql, which is the will of

the heart,

and the heart is simply affected by

the ruha and

the nafs.

If at the moment I am going to

act

the ruhani

dimension

happens

to stimulate my heart and to dominate

then

my will is Rohani

and the wazir will execute my rauhani

drives.

If at that moment

my stimuli

were nafsani

from the different types of low nufus,

then that's the irada of the kalb and

the kalb

will order the Haqql to execute my low

base nafsani

tribes, whether they be predatory

or cattle like or shaitan.