and if it is said rational then its meaning is that his self which is a mind has an intelligible that is his self for he feels himself and intelligifies himself so his self is intelligible and his self is rational and his self is intelligible and the whole is one since he is intelligible in that he is an essence abstracted from matter and not concealed from his self which is a mind meaning that he is an essence abstracted from matter from which nothing is concealed. and since he intelligible himself he was rational and since his intellect is by his self and not by something additional to his self he was intellect. and it is not farfetched that the rational and the intelligible are united for if the rational person intelligibles his being rational he intelligibles himself by being rational so the rational and the intelligible are one in some way even if that differs from the intellect of the first for what is for the first in actuality is always and what is for us is
وإذا قيل عاقل، فمعناه أن ذاته الذي هو عقل، فله معقول هو ذاته فإنه يشعر بنفسه ويعقل نفسه، فذاته معقول وذاته عاقل وذاته عقل والكل واحد، إذ هو معقول من حيث أنه ماهية مجردة عن المادة غير مستورة عن ذاته الذي هو عقل، بمعنى أنه ماهية مجردة عن المادة لا يكون شيء مستورا عنه. ولما عقل نفسه كان عاقلا، ولما كان نفسه معقولا لنفسه كان معقولا، ولما كان عقله بذاته لا بزائد على ذاته كان عقلا، ولا يبعد أن يتحد العاقل والمعقول فإن العاقل إذا عقل كونه عاقلا عقله بكونه عاقلا، فيكون العاقل والمعقول واحدا بوجه ما، وإن كان ذلك يفارق عقل الأول فإن ما للأول بالفعل أبدا وما لنا يكون