مَتَٰعًۭا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ
Mataa'al lakum wali an 'aamikum.
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
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Signs in creation
79:33Ayah 146
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Tafsir
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as a source of sustenance an object denoting reason for an implied verbal clause in other words fa‘ala dhālika mut‘atan or tamtī‘an ‘He did this to provide a source of sustenance’ for you and your flocks an‘ām is the plural of na‘am which are camels cows and sheep.
Related Hadiths
"Keep sheep, for in them is blessing!'
Eat, make a provision, and keep it.
“Whoever digs a well, is entitled to forty forearms' length surrounding it is as a resting place for his flocks.”
Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri said to me, "I notice that you like sheep and you keep them; so take care of them
and their food, for I have heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, 'A time will come upon the people when the
best of a Muslim's property will be sheep, which he will take to the tops of mountains and to the
places of rain-falls to run away with his religion in order to save it from afflictions.' "
“No one of you should withhold surplus water from common pastureland.”
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