طه : ٥٤

  • كُلُواْ Eat
  • وَٱرۡعَوۡاْ and pasture
  • أَنۡعَٰمَكُمۡۚ your cattle
  • إِنَّ Indeed
  • فِي in
  • ذَٰلِكَ that
  • لَأٓيَٰتٖ surely (are) Signs
  • لِّأُوْلِي for possessors
  • ٱلنُّهَىٰ (of) intelligence
Eat [therefrom] and pasture your livestock. Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence.
Eat, thereof, and pasture your cattle, therein (an'aam, 'cattle', is the plural of na'am, which are camels, cows and sheep; one says ra'atu'l-an'aamu, 'the cattle grazed' or ra'aytuhaa, 'I grazed them'; the imperative here is meant as a permissive and a reminder of [God's] grace, the sentence being a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of [the verb] akhrajnaa, 'We brought forth', in other words [what is meant is], '[We brought forth the plants] permitting you to eat thereof and to graze [your] cattle [thereon]'). In that, which is mentioned here, there are indeed signs, indeed lessons, for people of sense, possessors of intellect (alnuhaa, the plural of nuhya, similar [in pattern] to ghurfa, [plural] ghuraf. The intellect is called by this [term, nuhya] because it shows a person the sense to refrain from committing vile deeds).