The Holy Quran 22:33 — Surah Al-Hajj

Arabic text

لَكُمْ فِيهَا مَنَـٰفِعُ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ثُمَّ مَحِلُّهَآ إِلَى ٱلْبَيْتِ ٱلْعَتِيقِ

Translation

There are things of benefit for you in it (in the livestock animals that you intend to sacrifice during the days of Hajj) until a stipulated period (until the time when you declare them to be sacrificial animals. When you make this declaration and proceed with them for Hajj, you will have to stop milking them, riding them or deriving any other benefit from them). Then (once you declare that they are to be sacrificed during Hajj) their destination is the Freed (ancient) House (the Kabah).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The benefits of animals for man: the ancient House is the noble House of Allah, and here perhaps, in an extended sense, the whole Haram (Sacred Precinct) is meant. That is, from camels, cattle, goats and the like you can obtain many benefits: for example, ride them, drink [their] milk, breed them, and make use of their wool and so on, but only so long as…

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