Lataif-e-Sitta

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Laṭāʾif (Arabic: اللطائف) are special organs of perception and psycho-physiological functioning in Sufi spirituality. Depending on context, the laṭāʾif (plural) are also understood to be the experiential qualities or forms of those perceptions and functions.^[1]

The underlying Arabic word laṭīfa (singular) means “subtlety” and the phrase laṭā’if-e-sitta means “six subtleties” (although the number of laṭāʾif can differ depending on the specific Sufi tradition).

When realized (or activated or awakened or illuminated (tajalli)),^[2] the laṭāʾif are understood to be part of Man's spiritual “Organ of Evolution”,^[3] known as Qalb (Heart) (See "Disambiguation: Qalb (Heart) or laṭīfa").

This integration of the laṭāʾif into Qalb is considered by some Sufi orders -- especially the Naqshbandi -- to be a central part of the comprehensive spiritual development that produces the Sufi ideal of a Complete Human Being (Al-Insān al-Kāmil).