الْعَقْلِ reason in Arabic
الْعَقْلِ is how you say “reason” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقِيلَ الصَّبْرُ ثَبَاتٌ بَاعِثٌ الْعَقْلِ وَالدِّينِ فِي مُقَابَلَةِ بَاعِثِ الْهَوَى وَالشَّهْوَةِ
It is said that patience is the steadiness that serves as the driving force of reason and religion in opposing the impulses of desire and lust.
الْعَقْلِ reason
A definite noun ('reason') owned by the participle 'driving force' before it, closing that 'of' pairing: 'the driving force of reason'. As the owner term it takes the genitive ending. The al- supplies 'the' without a separate word.
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More example sentences
يَا بُنَيَّ مَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بِشَيْءٍ أَفْضَلُ مِنَ الْعَقْلِ
O my son, no one has worshipped God by anything better than the intellect.
الْعقل the intellect
Marked definite by 'al-' and sitting in the genitive because the comparative 'than' before it governs that case. It is the benchmark the whole sentence measures everything else against. As the standard of comparison, its definiteness frames it as the well-known faculty, not just any mind.