تفسير : and from his narration on the authority of ibn 'abbas that he said regarding the interpretation of allah's saying (by the fig and the olive): '(by the fig and the olive) he says: allah swears by the fig, this fig of yours, and the olive, this olive of yours; it is also said the fig and the olive refer to two mountains in historic syria; it is also said that the fig refers to the hill upon which jerusalem is built while the olive refers to the mountain upon which damascus is built,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : by the fig and the olive, that is, the two [edible] foods — or [these denote the names of] two mountains in syria on which these two foods grow —
