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Tafsir: An-Nahl 16:10

16:10
هو الذي انزل من السماء ماء لكم منه شراب ومنه شجر فيه تسيمون ١٠
هُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ ۖ لَّكُم مِّنْهُ شَرَابٌۭ وَمِنْهُ شَجَرٌۭ فِيهِ تُسِيمُونَ ١٠
هُوَ
ٱلَّذِيٓ
أَنزَلَ
مِنَ
ٱلسَّمَآءِ
مَآءٗۖ
لَّكُم
مِّنۡهُ
شَرَابٞ
وَمِنۡهُ
شَجَرٞ
فِيهِ
تُسِيمُونَ
١٠
He is the One Who sends down rain from the sky, from which you drink and by which plants grow for your cattle to graze.
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Commentary

The word: شَجَر (shajar) in verse 10: مِنْهُ شَجَرٌ‌ فِيهِ تُسِيمُونَ (from which [ you grow ] plants, on which you pasture cattle) is mostly applied to a tree which stands on a trunk. Sometimes, it is also applied, in an absolute sense, to everything which grows on land. Included therein are grass on stems or tendrils. This is the sense meant in this verse, because the pasturing of cattle has been mentioned immediately after which is mostly related to grass.

The last word: (tusimun) is a derivation from isamah which means to leave cattle to graze freely in a pasture.