Akhfā

Most hidden — center of the chest

Akhfā, the 'most hidden' — at the centre of the breastbone. Its light is green, the colour of Khiḍr and of the Prophetic Reality (al-haqīqa al-Muḥammadiyya). It is the seat of the divine secret of unity (sirr al-tawḥīd) and, in Sirhindī's reading, the latifa where baqāʾ — subsisting after annihilation — becomes possible. This is the latifa associated with the Prophet Muhammad himself and is regarded as the most central, properly speaking, of the chest-lataif.