Tafsir alTustari Sura الصافات Ayah No. 88

And he cast a glance at the stars (nujūm) ! And he said, ‘Indeed I feel sick.’He said:It is narrated from Muḥammad b. Sawwār from ʿAmr b. al-Aʿlāʾ who said, ‘Its meaning is that he looked at the plants (nabāt), as in His words, and the plants (najm) and trees (shajar) bow in prostration [55:6], intending by the word najm, plants which have no trunk, and by the word shajar, those which have a trunk.’ His words:

Tafsīr al-Tustarī, trans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler
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