Commentary
And when the falsifiers are not more repulsive nor stronger than some of the mute animals, it indicates what he informed of regarding his manifest support for them by his saying, reminding them of His favor, appealing to His obedience, and indicating the oneness after softening them with the warning, manifesting the comprehensive name, pointing out that this verse is among the countless indications: ﴿Allah﴾ meaning: the Greatest King ﴿Who made for you﴾ no one else ﴿the cattle﴾ meaning: the eight pairs by subjugation and service ﴿that you may ride from them﴾ and they are the camels with their strength and repulsiveness. The expression with the preposition in riding is absolute, then it is restricted to reaching the vast places, indicating that this is the intended purpose of them specifically, and it is what necessitated their being created as they are. From this, the remaining benefits arose, and they were subordinate.
And when the sustenance from them - in its great benefit, abundance, and desirability - is such that nothing else is suitable for it, he counted the other as nonexistence and said, the Exalted: ﴿from them﴾ meaning: from all the cattle ﴿you eat﴾ by preferring the preposition.
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