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"Eat of the wholesome things We have provided you" —

And when We said: "Enter this city, eat from it wherever you will, at your ease, enter by the gate, prostrate, and say: Unburden us — We will forgive you your faults,

Eat and drink of God's provision,

O mankind! Eat of what is on the earth, of what is permitted and wholesome,

O you who have believed! Eat of the wholesome things We have provided you, and be grateful toward God, if it is Him that you obey.

Indeed, those who withhold what God has sent down of the Scripture, and buy with it a paltry price — those are the ones who consume nothing in their bellies but the Fire; God will not speak to them on the Day of Appearance, and will not purify them,

And eat and drink until the white thread becomes distinguishable to you from the black thread of dawn,

And do not devour your goods among yourselves through falsehood, and do not offer them to judges to devour, through transgression, a fraction of the goods of mankind, while you know.

Those who devour usury rise only as one rises whom the Diverter sends staggering by his touch.

And I inform you of what you eat and what you store up in your houses.

O you who have believed! Do not devour usury, doubled and redoubled.

and do not devour their goods with yours:

Then, if they find it good to release any of it to you of their own accord, consume it

And test the orphans until they reach the age of marriage; if you then discern in them a rectitude of judgment, hand over to them their goods, and do not devour them wastefully and hastily, before they grow up.

Those who devour the goods of orphans wrongfully are only devouring fire in their bellies,

O you who have believed! Do not devour your goods among yourselves through falsehood,

So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of God over it.

And it is to God that you should entrust yourselves, if you are believers."

And had they maintained the Tawrah, the Injil, and what was sent down to them from their Guardian, they would indeed have eaten of what is above them and of what is beneath their feet.

And eat of what God has provided you, of what is permitted and wholesome,

Eat, then, of that over which the name of God has been mentioned, if you are believers in His signs.

And what is with you that you should not eat of that over which the name of God has been mentioned, when He has detailed for you what He has prohibited to you, except what you are hard-pressed into?

And do not eat of that over which the name of God has not been mentioned: it is surely an overstepping.

Eat of its fruit, when it bears fruit, and give its due, on the day of its harvest,

Eat of what God has provided you,

O sons of Adam! Take your adornment at every moment of prostration, and eat and drink,

"Eat of the wholesome things We have provided you."

And when it was said to them: "Dwell in this city, eat from it wherever you will, say: Unburden us, and enter by the gate, prostrate: We will forgive you your faults.

The believers are only those whose cores tremble when God is remembered, whose faith increases when His signs are recited to them, and who entrust themselves to their Guardian,

So eat of what you have taken as spoils, of what is permitted and wholesome,

O you who have believed! Many rabbis and monks surely devour the goods of men through falsehood, and bar from the way of God.

And Moussa said: "O my people, if you believe in God, entrust yourselves to Him, if you are true to God alone."

and what you have harvested, keep it in its ear, except the little that you eat.

and let those who entrust themselves entrust themselves to Him."

so let those who entrust themselves entrust themselves to God."

Let them be: let them eat, let them enjoy themselves, and let hope distract them:

in them you find warmth and benefits, and from them you eat.

It is He who has subjected the sea, so that you may eat from it fresh flesh and extract from it an ornament that you wear;

those who were patient and who entrust themselves to their Guardian.

He indeed has no authority over those who believe and who entrust themselves to their Guardian.

So eat of what God has provided you, of what is permitted and wholesome,

Eat, and graze your cattle.

Eat of the wholesome things We have provided you, and do not exceed the measure therein, lest My anger fall upon you;

We did not make them bodies that ate no food,

So eat of it and feed the distressed, the poor.

then when their flanks collapse, eat of them and feed the one who is content without asking and the one who comes forward.

We thus brought into being for you, through it, gardens of palms and vines, wherein you have abundant savoury fruits and from which you eat, and a tree that comes out of Mount Sinai, which grows with oil and a condiment for those who eat.

and you have in them many benefits, and you eat from them, and upon them as well as upon vessels you are carried.

And the court of his people, those who disowned and denied the meeting of the last life, and to whom We had given affluence in the present life, said: "This is nothing but a human like you, who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink; and if you defer to a human like you, you will then surely be losers. Does he promise you that, once dead and become earth and bones, you will be brought out? Far, far indeed is what you are promised! There is nothing but our present life, we die and we live, and we will not be raised up! He is nothing but a man who has invented a lie against God, and we will not give him credit."

O messengers, eat of the wholesome things and do sound deeds —

There is no discomfort for the blind, nor discomfort for the lame, nor discomfort for the sick, nor for yourselves, in eating in your own houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your sisters, or the houses of your paternal uncles, or the houses of your paternal aunts, or the houses of your maternal uncles, or the houses of your maternal aunts, or in what you hold the keys of, or at your friend's.

No blame upon you for eating together or separately.

We did not send before you any of the envoys but that they surely ate food and walked in the marketplaces.

those who were patient and who entrust themselves to their Guardian.

"Eat from the provision of your Guardian, and be grateful to Him:

And from each you eat fresh flesh, and you extract an ornament that you wear,

And a sign for them: the dead earth, which We have brought back to life, and from which We have brought forth grain, and it is from it that they eat.

And We placed therein gardens of palm trees and vines, and We caused springs to gush forth in it, so that they may eat from its fruit — and it was not their hands that produced it.

And We have made them docile for them: some serve as their mounts, and some they eat.

They will surely eat from it and fill their bellies with it; then on top of it they will surely have a brew of boiling water.

Then he stole away to their deities, and said: "Do you not eat? What is wrong with you, that you utter nothing?"

it is to Him that those who entrust themselves entrust themselves."

God is He who made for you the cattle, that you may ride some of them and eat others;

but what is with God is better and more lasting, for those who believe and entrust themselves to their Guardian;

Therein you will have abundant savoury fruit, from which you will eat.

And those who disown enjoy themselves and eat as cattle eat, and the Fire will be their sojourn.

He stole away to his household, then brought a fat calf and brought it near them, saying: "Do you not eat?"

"Eat and drink pleasantly, for what you used to do," reclining on aligned couches; and We paired them with companions of listening and support.

Then surely you, O astray, denying ones, will eat from the tree of Zaqqoum, and fill your bellies with it, and drink on top of it boiling water, drinking as thirsty camels drink.

It is He who made the earth docile for you; so walk through its expanses and eat from His provision.

"Eat and drink

"Eat and enjoy yourselves a little; indeed, you are severed."

But rather, you do not honor the orphan, and you do not urge the feeding of the destitute, and you consume the inheritance with voracious greed, and you love goods with immoderate love. By no means!