عَقَلُ
Verb · 49 timesMeaning: understand · Also translated as: use reason, you use reason, use your intellect, they understood it
Forms in the Quran
- تَعْقِلُونَ ×24
- يَعْقِلُونَ ×22
- عَقَلُوهُ ×1
- يَعْقِلُهَآ ×1
- نَعْقِلُ ×1
عَقَلُ
Meaning: understand
عقل occurs 49 times in 49 verses across 30 surahs of the Quran. Below is every verse with its translation. Tap any word to see its meaning.
Meaning: understand · Also translated as: use reason, you use reason, use your intellect, they understood it
العين والقاف واللام أصل واحد منقاس مطرد، يدل عظمه على حبسة في الشيء أو ما يقارب الحبسة. من ذلك العقل، وهو الحابس عن ذميم القول والفعل.
العقل: الحجر والنهى ضد الحمق، والجمع عقول. وفي حديث
Verses 1–20 of 49
Do ye enjoin right conduct On the people, and forget (To practise it) yourselves, And yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand?
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:44So We said: "Strike the (body) With a piece of the (heifer)." Thus God bringeth the dead To life and showeth you His Signs: Perchance ye may understand.
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:73Can ye (O ye men of Faith) Entertain the hope that they Will believe in you?— Seeing that a party of them Heard the Word of God, And perverted it knowingly After they understood it.
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:75Behold! when they meet The men of Faith, they say: "We believe": but when They meet each other in private, They say: "Shall you tell them What God hath revealed to you, That they may engage you In argument about it Before your Lord?"— Do ye not understand (their aim)?
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:76Behold! In the creation Of the heavens and the earth; In the alternation Of the Night and the Day; In the sailing of the ships Through the Ocean For the profit of mankind; In the rain which God Sends down from the skies, And the life which He gives therewith To an earth that is dead; In the beasts of all kinds That He scatters Through the earth; In the change of the winds, And the clouds which they Trail like their slaves Between the sky and the earth;— (Here) indeed are Signs For a people that are wise.
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:164When it is said to them: "Follow what God hath revealed:" They say: "Nay! we shall follow The ways of our fathers." What! even though their fathers Were void of wisdom and guidance?
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:170The parable of those Who reject Faith is As if one were to shout Like a goat-herd, to things That listen to nothing But calls and cries: Deaf, dumb, and blind, They are void of wisdom.
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:171Thus doth God Make clear His Signs To you: in order that Ye may understand.
Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 2:242Ye People of the Book! Why dispute ye About Abraham, When the Law and the Gospel Were not revealed Till after him? Have ye no understanding?
Surah Ali 'Imran, verse 3:65O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy Those outside your ranks: They will not fail To corrupt you. They Only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already Appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal Is far worse. We have made plain To you the Signs, If ye have wisdom.
Surah Ali 'Imran, verse 3:118When ye proclaim Your call to prayer, They take it (but) As mockery and sport; That is because they are A people without understanding.
Surah Al-Ma'idah, verse 5:58It was not God Who instituted (superstitions Like those of) a slit-ear She-camel, or a she-camel Let loose for free pasture, Or idol sacrifices for Twin-births in animals, Or stallion-camels Freed from work It is blasphemers Who Invent a lie Against God; but most Of them lack wisdom.
Surah Al-Ma'idah, verse 5:103What is the life of this world But play and amusement? But best is the Home In the Hereafter, for those Who are righteous. Will ye not then understand?
Surah Al-An'am, verse 6:32Say: "Come, I will rehearse What God hath (really) Prohibited you from": join not Anything as equal with Him; Be good to your parents; Kill not your children On a plea of want;—We Provide sustenance for you And for them;—come not Nigh to shameful deeds, Whether open or secret; Take not life, which God Hath made sacred, except By way of justice and law: Thus doth He command you, That ye may learn wisdom.
Surah Al-An'am, verse 6:151After them succeeded An (evil) generation: they Inherited the Book, but They chose (for themselves) The vanities of this world, Saying (for excuse): "(Everything) Will be forgiven us." (Even so), if similar vanities Came their way, they would (Again) seize them. Was not the Covenant Of the Book taken from them, That they would not Ascribe to God anything But the truth? And they Study what is in the Book. But best for the righteous Is the Home in the Hereafter. Will ye not understand?
Surah Al-A'raf, verse 7:169For the worst of beasts In the sight of God Are the deaf and the dumb,— Those who understand not.
Surah Al-Anfal, verse 8:22Say: "If God had so willed, I should not have rehearsed it To you, nor would He Have made it known to you. A whole life-time before this Have I tarried amongst you: Will ye not then understand?
Surah Yunus, verse 10:16Among them are some who (Pretend to) listen to thee: But canst thou make the deaf To hear,—even though They are without understanding?
Surah Yunus, verse 10:42No soul can believe, except By the Will of God, And He will place Doubt (Or obscurity) on those Who will not understand.
Surah Yunus, verse 10:100"O my people! I ask of you No reward for this (Message). My reward is from none But Him who created me: Will ye not then understand?
Surah Hud, verse 11:51