Qalb

Heart — under the left breast

Qalb, the heart-latifa, located by Sirhindī two finger-widths beneath the left breast. It is the seat of īmān (faith) and the first of the lataif to be 'awakened' in the Naqshbandi sulūk. In Kubrā's visionary phenomenology its light is yellow, and it is associated with the prophet Adam. The qalb is not the muscle of the heart but the metaphysical heart that receives divine address — the locus of the famous ḥadīth qudsī, 'My earth and My heaven contain Me not, but the heart of My believing servant contains Me.'