اِعْقِلْbe mindful in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَقَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِابْنِهِ يَا بُنَيَّ اِعْقِلْ عَنْ اللَّهِ

  And Luqman said to his son, "O my son, be mindful of God."

  اِعْقِلْ — be mindful. This is a command-form verb addressed to the son, 'be mindful'. The imperative is built by stripping the present-tense prefix and clipping the ending, which is why it looks bare. It delivers the core instruction of the advice.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →