The Believer
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[40:79]
It is God who [at all times works wonders for you: thus, He] provides for you [all manner of] livestock, so that on some of them you may ride, and from some derive your food,

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* v.79 : I.e., by providing in a wondrous manner the means of man’s subsistence, and by endowing him with the miracle of a creative intellect which enables him to make fruitful use of so many natural phenomena. (This passage connects with the statement implied in verse 78 that “miracles are in the power of God alone”: see note 58.)
* The “other benefits” are both concrete and abstract in their nature: concrete benefits like wool, skins, etc., and abstract ones like beauty (cf. 16:6-8, as well as Solomon’s reverence for the God-created beauty of horses expressed in 38:31-33) or the all-time companionship of man and dog symbolized in the legend of the Men of the Cave (18:18 and 22).