Khafī

Hidden — above the right breast

Khafī, the 'hidden' — two finger-widths above the right breast. Its light is black, in the sense of the 'luminous black' of via negativa: a darkness that conceals because it overflows perception. It is the latifa of Jesus in Sirhindī's prophetic correspondences. At this station the seeker passes through fanāʾ — annihilation of self in the divine — and the imagery of the Cross-as-extinction becomes intelligible.