Two destinies, named in one breath, by the contrast of how each one eats. The believer is admitted to gardens; the rejecter eats as cattle eat. Allah is teaching a hierarchy of consumption itself: those who eat with awareness, with gratitude, with restraint, eat for a different end than those who eat only because they can.

Notice that Allah did not say the disbelievers eat AND drink AND lust AND boast. He named one act, eating, and inside it the whole human condition. The cattle eat without naming Allah. They eat without remembering they did not grow the grass. They eat without thanking the One who provides. They eat and the eating is the whole of them. The believer can be eating the very same meal, and yet his eating is wrapped in remembrance, gratitude, restraint, and trust. The same act becomes two different acts depending on what surrounds it. This is the Qur'an's pedagogy: it does not invent new acts; it transforms old ones. To eat in a believer's way is to bring the Gardens-with-rivers closer. To eat the cattle way is to make this dunyā the only meal. May Allah enter us into the gardens beneath which rivers flow, and may none of us eat the cattle way again.