Surah 20. Ta-Ha, Ayah 53

I.e., "has provided you with ways and means - both material and intellectual - to gain your livelihood on earth and from it".

Lit., "pairs" (azwaj), a term which in this context apparently denotes "kinds"; but see also 13:3 and the corresponding note [7].

Sabil means not only a road, but would include water-roads or channels, and in modern conditions, airways-in fact all means of communication.

This seems to be outside the speech of Moses, and connects itself with the following verses 54-56, as part of the Word of Allah, expanding the speech of Moses and explaining the working of Allah's Providence in nature.

Azwaj: we might translate here (as in xv. 88) by "classes" instead of "pairs"; but as sex in plants seems to be referred to elsewhere (see xiii. 3, and n. 1804), I translate "pairs".