The Meaning of Intelligence in Islam

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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What does Aql mean? Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explores the linguistic and Islamic meaning. Aql means something that reigns over us during times of danger, foolishness and stupidity. The Aqil is a good worshiper of Allah. Everyone who sins in a state of ignorance and then repents, Allah will forgive them. This reasserts the fact that a Jahil or ignorant person is one who commits a sin and not the one who is blessed with Aql. The purpose of Aql is to recognize the truth and to shy away from it is utter foolishness, no matter what is the length and breadth of one’s achievements.

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Badil Adam, Adam, al-Ham-Doh-M-Dulak,
0:15.0	Ham-Dankadir, and even I Arab Bulak.
0:18.0	Artay-Tana, ha-ran kadiran robbana,
0:22.0	Sater, the An'Ankulil,
0:24.0	O'erh, Uyhubana,
0:25.0	the Mauszala to bad Oat Islam
0:28.0	Eilnabil most of the Kharem. What does Aqal mean?
0:35.0	What does Aqal mean?
0:39.0	It's very interesting that the word
0:49.0	linguistically it means to rain in an animal to harness an animal.
0:55.8	Like you know animals they have something around their heads and they are harnessed you pull them back
0:58.1	That is what a-kala means
1:06.9	What does human intellect have to do with harnessing. The purpose of a kal is to reign us in during times of danger, to control us from acting foolishly and stupidly to make us act in an intelligent manner.
1:16.0	A Kall pulls us back from falling to our debts.
1:19.0	Aqal pulls us back from doing that which is foolish to do and therefore it should not
1:25.4	come as any surprise to us in Islam a-kal means to be a good worshipper of Allah. If you are a worshipper of Allah, you are a
1:36.4	kk and you're smart. And if you reject Allah, if you commit sins, if you don't act in an intelligent manner, you're acting foolishly.
1:48.0	And that is why, for example, in the Quran, in Suritilmulk, suletabarak, when the angels ask the people of Jahanam,
1:56.0	how did you end up here?
1:57.8	What caused you to end up here?
1:59.5	What did they say?
2:00.8	Kaululakunah, Nesma u a nah Kilu, Ma Kunah fe Oshaib sair.
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