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Sura 23
Aya 20
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وَشَجَرَةً تَخرُجُ مِن طورِ سَيناءَ تَنبُتُ بِالدُّهنِ وَصِبغٍ لِلآكِلينَ

Muhammad Asad

as well as a tree that issues from [the lands adjoining] Mount Sinai,1 yielding oil and relish for all to eat.
  • I.e., the olive-tree, native to the lands around the eastern Mediterranean, where so many pre-Qur'anic prophets (here symbolized - because of its sacred associations - by Mount Sinai) lived and preached.