وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ لَعِبْرَةً ۖ نُّسْقِيكُم مِّمَّا فِى بُطُونِهِۦ مِنۢ بَيْنِ فَرْثٍ وَدَمٍ لَّبَنًا خَالِصًا سَآئِغًا لِّلشَّـٰرِبِينَ
Wa inna lakum fil an'aami la'ibrah; nusqeekum mimmmaa fee butoonihee mim baini farsinw wa damil labanann khaalisan saaa'ighallish shaaribeen
اور تمہارے لیے چارپایوں میں بھی (مقام) عبرت (وغور) ہے کہ ان کے پیٹوں میں جو گوبر اور لہو ہے اس سے ہم تم کو خالص دودھ پلاتے ہیں جو پینے والوں کے لیے خوشگوار ہے
And in the livestock there is surely a lesson for you. We give you to drink from what is in their bellies — between waste and blood — pure milk, easy to swallow for those who drink.
Ibrah, the word for the lesson here, comes from a root meaning to cross over, the same root behind the interpretation of a dream. The invitation is to cross from what can be seen to what it means, and the passage runs a whole sequence of such crossings: rain, milk, the vine, the bee. Milk is the plainest of them, drawn out of the body's least likely quarter.