Tafsir Ibn Abbas: An-Nahl, Ayah 66
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And truly for you there is in the cattle a lesson an example to learn from. We give you to drink — this introduces the explanation of the ‘lesson’ — of that which is in their bellies the cattle’s bellies from min indicates a new subject and is semantically connected to nusqīkum ‘We give you to drink’ between the refuse the intestinal waste and the blood pure milk uncontaminated by either the refuse or the blood neither in its taste odour or colour even though it the milk is situated between the two palatable to drinkers easily passing down their throats not causing any choking.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And lo! in the cattle there is a lesson for you. We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies, from betwixt the refuse and the blood), We extract (pure milk palatable to the drinkers) savoury to the drinkers.