ʿAql means intellect. Islamic philosophers, following the Greeks, distinguished the potential intellect from the active intellect, a cosmic intelligence that illuminates the human mind. Sufis both honoured and limited reason: it leads to the threshold, but love crosses it.
ʿAql
Intellect or reason: in Islamic philosophy, the faculty that knows universals and, at its height, the divine.
Also: Aql, intellect