Surah An-Nahl
Chapter 16 · Verse 66 · Revealed in Makkah
“And indeed, for you in grazing livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from what is in their bellies - between excretion and blood - pure milk, palatable to drinkers.”
Translation: Saheeh International
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Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Reflection — Ibn Kathir
Lessons and Blessings in Cattle and the Fruit of the Date-palm and Grapevine
وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ
(there is for you) - O mankind -
Reflection — Maarif ul Quran
Commentary
The pronoun in: بُطُونِہٖ (butunihi: their bellies) reverts back to: (al-an am: cattle). Since the word al-an’ am is plural in the feminine gender, it required that the word used for it should have been: بُطُونِھَا (butuniha), as it appears in Surah Al-Mu'minun: نُّسْقِيكُم مِّمَّا فِي بُطُونِهَا (We provide you, out of what there is in their bellies - 23:21).
What does this verse bring up for you today?