عَقْل mind in Arabic
عَقْل is how you say “mind” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَكَفَى بِهَذَا الْقَدْرِ مَدْحًا لِلْعَقْلِ وَذَمًّا لِلْهَوَى
This alone is sufficient to praise reason and criticize desire.
لِلْعَقْلِ for reason
The li- aims the praise at its recipient and governs the genitive; it has absorbed the noun's 'the' into a single written word.
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وَالآدَمِيُّ يَمْتَنِعُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ بِقَهْرِ عَقْلِهِ لِطَبْعِهِ
And the human refrains from that by subduing his nature with reason.
عَقْلِهِ his reason
A subtle pairing: 'his reason' is the owner completing 'the overpowering BY his reason' — reason is the tool doing the subduing, even though it sits in the owner slot.
وَجَبَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَرْفَعَ كُلَّ حَادِثَةٍ إِلَى حَاكِمِ الْعَقْلِ
He must refer every occurrence to the judge of reason.
الْعَقْلِ reason
The owner finishing 'the judge of reason'; genitive, holding the 'the' for the pair.
الذِّكرُ في الإسلامِ ليسَ أصواتًا فارغة، بل معانٍ مكتملة تُنطَق في جُملٍ تامَّة تُغذّي العقلَ والقلب
Remembrance in Islam is not empty sounds, but complete meanings articulated in complete sentences that nourish the mind and heart.
العَقْلَ the mind
'the mind', accusative as the object being nourished. The ending marks it as what receives the action.
فإن برعت في الأصول وتوابعها من المنطق والحكمة والفلسفة، وآراء الأوائل ومجازات العقول،
So if you excel in the fundamentals and their appendages of logic, wisdom, philosophy, and the views of the ancients and the metaphors of minds,
العُقُولِ minds
This noun, minds, is the owner half closing the final pairing, 'figurative readings of minds', genitive and definite. It ends the long itemized list of fields the addressee might master.
ولفقت بين العقل والنقل،
And you reconcile between reason and revelation,
العَقْلِ reason
This noun, reason, is the first of the two things linked by 'between', genitive and definite by 'al-'. It is one pole of the reconciliation the preposition sets up.
لأن الغضب يذهب العقل، ويستر البصيرة،
Because anger takes away reason and veils insight.
ٱلْعَقْلَ reason
The definite object of 'takes away', in the object form, its 'the' marking the mind or reason as a known whole. It is what anger removes.
وَقَالَ لُقْمَانُ غَايَةُ الشَّرَفِ وَالسُّؤْدُدِ حُسْنُ الْعَقْلِ
Luqman said, 'The highest honor and distinction is a sound mind.'
الْعقل of the mind
Definite by 'al-' and serving as the owner-word in 'soundness of the mind', so it sits in the genitive as the second noun of that pairing. The two nouns together give the 'of' relationship with no separate word. It names the faculty whose soundness is the highest honour.