Sufi COMMON Nafs al-Ammara — The Commanding Self ATK 8 DEF 8 SPR 1 SPD 9 INT 9 CHA – WIS – END – Special Mask of the Self Present in every human being from birth; theorized systematically from ~9th century CE onward; the seven-stage *nafs* taxonomy fully developed by Sufi masters of the 10th-12th centuries