Rūḥ

Spirit — under the right breast

Rūḥ, the spirit-latifa, two finger-widths beneath the right breast. Its light is red; it is associated with the prophets Noah and Abraham. Sirhindī treats it as the next station after qalb: where qalb yields love and faith, rūḥ yields ḥuḍūr — presence — and a steadier register of divine cognition. Classical theology distinguishes rūḥ (spirit, the divine breath of Q. 15:29) from nafs (the lower self). The latifa of rūḥ is the locus where this distinction becomes experientially obvious.