زود

Core meaning

To provide oneself for the road: to take in advance what will keep one alive on the way.

Uses

1. تَزَوَّدُوا۟ → "take your provisions" : the order to provide oneself before setting out.

   • «وَتَزَوَّدُوا۟» — "And take your provisions" (2:197)

2. ٱلزَّاد → "provisions" : what one provides oneself with; the best is guardedness.

   • «فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ ٱلزَّادِ ٱلتَّقْوَىٰ» — "for the best of provisions is guardedness" (2:197)

Evidence from the text

The two uses follow each other in the same verse, amid the rules of the pilgrimage. The order is first concrete: "And take your provisions" (2:197). The next sentence keeps the word and shifts its object: "the best of provisions is guardedness" (2:197). The road demands that one provide in advance, and what keeps one on the way is the vigilance that shelters.

See also

وقى (to guard oneself) · سفر (travel)