عَقْلُintellect

Example sentences

• مَا يَتِمُّ عَقْلُ اِمْرِئٍ حَتَّى يَكُونَ فِيهِ عَشَرُ خِصَالٍ

  A person's intellect is not complete until he has ten qualities.

  عَقْلُ — intellect. This is the subject doing the verb, so it sits in the subject case even though it comes after its verb, which is normal Arabic order. It opens a possessive pairing with the next word: 'the intellect of a person', the two nouns set side by side with no separate 'of'. It surrenders its own article to take definiteness from the owner that follows.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• فَهُنَاكَ حِيْنٌ اِسْتَكْمَلَ الْعَقْلُ

  Then there came a time when the intellect reached completion.

  الْعقل — the intellect. Definite by 'al-' and standing in the subject case as the doer of 'reached completeness', though it comes after its verb, which is ordinary Arabic order. The subject-case ending tells the listener this is what did the completing. It closes the parable on the perfected intellect.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• وَهِيَ الْمَعْرِفَةُ وَالْعَقْلُ وَالْإِيمَانُ وَالْيَقِينُ

  And it is knowledge, intellect, faith, and certainty.

  وَالْعقل — and intellect. The 'wa-' couples 'intellect' onto 'knowledge' as the second item in the list of the four. It is definite by 'al-' and shares the predicate role, so the connector strings the named items together one by one.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →