Nafs kāmila (7)

The perfected nafs — al-insān al-kāmil

Al-nafs al-kāmila — 'the perfected nafs'. The final station, identified with al-insān al-kāmil (the perfected human) of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī's doctrinal exposition. The nafs at this station is fully transparent to the divine, and the human being functions as a complete locus of the divine names. Located at the brow / forehead in the Mujaddidi projection, marking the upper terminus of the ascent through the stations.

Nafs ammāra (1)Nafs lawwāma (2)Nafs mulhama (3)Nafs muṭmaʾinna (4)Nafs rāḍiya (5)Nafs marḍiyya (6)Nafs kāmila (7)Nafs kāmila (7)

Point 7 of 7 in Seven Stations of the Nafs

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ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, al-Insān al-Kāmil (primary_canonical)

Al-Jīlī's al-Insān al-Kāmil, especially its opening doctrinal exposition of the Perfect Human, describes the complete human as the locus in which the divine names are displayed. The citation supports the kāmila endpoint concept; it is not a source for the Qur'anic three nafs labels.

Sirhindī, Maktūbāt (primary_canonical)

Sirhindī, Maktūbāt I.260 (First Daftar, Letter 260), provides the Mujaddidi station framework in which refinement of the nafs culminates in perfected human realisation. The perfect-nafs formulation is a later Sufi synthesis and should not be projected back into the Qur'anic wording.

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