His saying, exalted and majestic is He: "And indeed, for you in the animals is a lesson. We give you to drink from what is in their bellies, and for you in them are many benefits, and of them you eat." "And upon them and on the ship you are carried." "The animals" are camels, cattle, sheep, and goats, and "the lesson" is in their creation and all of their news. The majority read: "We give you to drink" with a dammah on the noon from "to give to drink," and it was narrated from 'Asim. And Nafi', 'Asim, and Ibn 'Amir read: "We give you to drink" with a fathah on the noon from "to give to drink." Some people said: They are two dialects with the same meaning, and some of them said: I gave him to drink if I gave it to him for the lip, and I provided him with water if I made for him a supply for the land or fruit or something similar. So it is as if Allah made the animals a supply for His servants to drink and benefit from. And Abu Ja'far read: "The animals give you to drink" with a ta' from above, meaning: the animals give you to drink. And "the benefits" are the riding on them, their skins, their wool, their hair, and other than that which is lengthy to count. And "the ship" refers to the ships, and one of them is a falak. The movements in the singular are like the movements of a lock and hail, and the movements in the plural are like the movements of lions and books.