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