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.

QalbRūḥSirrKhafīKhafīAkhfāNafs

Point 4 of 6 in Lataif al-Sitta (Six Subtle Centers)

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Sources

Sirhindī, Maktūbāt I.260 (primary_canonical)

Maktūbāt I.260 (First Daftar, Letter 260) includes khafī among the chest latāif and gives its position above the right breast in the Mujaddidi arrangement. Its dark-light imagery and Jesus correspondence are technical Sufi symbols, not an anatomical assertion.

Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism (secondary)

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