“I fed her straw and cold water,
until her eyes began to stream.”

Water, however, is given as a drink; one does not say, “I fed water.” Yet feeding and giving drink (1) are both encompassed by the meaning of providing nourishment. Likewise, there is the saying:

“You saw your husband amid the fray,
girded with a sword and a spear.”

That is, holding (2) a spear beneath his thigh. Girding on a sword (3) and holding a spear in this manner are both forms of carrying.

Likewise, the Most High says:

“Immortal youths will circulate among them,”
“with cups, pitchers, and a drink from a flowing spring”
[Surah al-Wāqia: 17, 18],

through His words:

“and fair maidens with large, beautiful eyes”
[Surah al-Wāqia: 22].

The fair, wide-eyed maidens are not taken around (4); rather, the meaning is that both these and those are brought. They may also omit something when the explicit wording indicates an act of the same general kind, though not the omitted act itself, as in the words of the Most High (5):

“He admits whomever He wills into His mercy; but the wrongdoers—He has prepared for them a painful punishment”
[Surah al-Insān: 31].

The meaning is: He punishes the wrongdoers.

This verse has two well-known readings: the genitive and the accusative. Of those who recited the accusative reading, more than one said that the command reverts to washing; that is: “Wipe your heads and wash your feet up to the ankles.” The two readings (6) are like two verses. As for one who says that it is coordinated with