The laṭāʾif, subtleties, are centres of spiritual perception located in the body, such as the heart, spirit, secret, hidden and most hidden. Naqshbandī practice awakens them in turn through remembrance. Sufi teachers developed the scheme, with variations, from the eleventh century onward.
Laṭīfa
A subtle centre: one of the spiritual organs of perception in Sufi psychology, especially in the Naqshbandī order.
Also: lataif