Sirr

Secret — above the left breast

Sirr, the 'secret' — two finger-widths above the left breast. Its light is white. It is the latifa associated with Moses and with the kalāmullāh, the speaking of God to the servant. At this station the practitioner begins to perceive the difference between his own thoughts and the wārid, the in-coming address from beyond. Sufi pedagogy treats sirr as the latifa most easily counterfeited; without the discipline of the previous two it produces inflation rather than secrecy.