Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from one of our companions, (It has been narrated) raising it to Abu Abdullah -asws , said, ‘I said to him -asws , ‘What is the ‘الْعَقْلَ’ ( Aql – intellect?’ He -asws said: ‘Through which the Beneficent is worshipped with, and the Gardens are attained with’. I said, ‘So that which was in Muawiya?’ So he -asws said: ‘That is the heinous, that is the devilry, and it may disguise as the أَعْقَلَ (Aql), but it is not the Aql’.
[2] Al-Aql is integrated with the bashfulness and the religion: عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ مُفَضَّلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ طَرِيفٍ عَنِ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ نُبَاتَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ هَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَى آدَمَ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ يَا آدَمُ إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُخَيِّرَكَ وَاحِدَةً مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَاخْتَرْهَا وَ دَعِ اثْنَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ لَهُ آدَمُ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ وَ مَا الثَّلَاثُ Ali Bin Muhammad, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Amro Bin Usman, from Mufazzal Bin Salih, from Sa’ad Bin Tareyf, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata, (It has been narrated) from Ali -asws having said: ‘Jibraeel -as descended unto Adam -as and he -as said: ‘O Adam -as !’ I -as have been Commanded to get you -as to choose one from three, therefore choose it and leave the (other) two’.
So Adam -as said to him -as : ‘O Jibraeel -as ! And what are the three?’ فَقَالَ الْعَقْلُ وَ الْحَيَاءُ وَ الدِّينُ فَقَالَ آدَمُ إِنِّي قَدِ اخْتَرْتُ الْعَقْلَ فَقَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ لِلْحَيَاءِ وَ الدِّينِ انْصَرِفَا وَ دَعَاهُ فَقَالَا يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ إِنَّا أُمِرْنَا أَنْ نَكُونَ مَعَ الْعَقْلِ حَيْثُ كَانَ قَالَ فَشَأْنَكُمَا وَ عَرَجَ He -as said: ‘The ‘الْعَقْلُ وَ الْحَيَاءُ وَ الدِّينُ’ esoteric wisdom, and the modesty (bashfulness), and the Religion’.
Adam -as said: ‘I -as have chosen the esoteric wisdom’. So Jibraeel -as said to the modesty and the Religion: ‘Leave!’ But these both said, ‘O Jibraeel -as ! We have been Commanded (by Allah -azwj ) that we should happen to be with the Aql wherever it may be’. He -as said: ‘So that is your affair’, and he -as ascended’ (leaving all three with Adam -as ).
[3] يَا هِشَامُ إِنَّ ضَوْءَ الْجَسَدِ فِي عَيْنِهِ فَإِنْ كَانَ الْبَصَرُ مُضِيئاً اسْتَضَاءَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ وَ إِنَّ ضَوْءَ الرُّوحِ الْعَقْلُ (Imam Musa-e-Kazim -asws ) said: O Hisham: The light of the body is in the eyes, if the sight is luminous the whole body will be bright.