English Translation Of ''THE HOLY QUR'AN''

CHAPTER 19. MARY (Maryam)

  In  the  name  of  Allah,  the  Gracious,  the  Merciful  

1. Kaf, Ha, Ya, Ayn, Saad.

2. A mention of the mercy of your Lord towards His servant Zechariah.

3. When he called on his Lord, a call in seclusion.

4. He said, "My Lord, my bones have become feeble, and my hair is aflame with gray, and never, Lord, have I been disappointed in my prayer to you.

5. "And I fear for my dependents after me, and my wife is barren. So grant me, from Yourself, an heir.

6. To inherit me, and inherit from the House of Jacob, and make him, my Lord, pleasing."

7. "O Zechariah, We give you good news of a son, whose name is John, a name We have never given before."

8. He said, "My Lord, how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have become decrepit with old age?"

9. He said, "It will be so, your Lord says, 'it is easy for me, and I created you before, when you were nothing.'"

10. He said, "My Lord, give me a sign." He said, "Your sign is that you will not speak to the people for three nights straight."

11. And he came out to his people, from the sanctuary, and signaled to them to praise morning and evening.

12. "O John, hold on to the Scripture firmly," and We gave him wisdom in his youth.

13. And tenderness from Us, and innocence. He was devout.

14. And kind to his parents; and he was not a disobedient tyrant.

15. And peace be upon him the day he was born, and the day he dies, and the Day he is raised alive.

16. And mention in the Scripture Mary, when she withdrew from her people to an eastern location.

17. She screened herself away from them, and We sent to her Our spirit, and He appeared to her as an immaculate human.

18. She said, "I take refuge from you in the Most Merciful, should you be righteous."

19. He said, "I am only the messenger of your Lord, to give you the gift of a pure son."

20. She said, "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, and I was never unchaste?"

21. He said, "Thus said your Lord, 'It is easy for Me, and We will make him a sign for humanity, and a mercy from Us. It is a matter already decided.'"

22. So she carried him, and secluded herself with him in a remote place.

23. The labor-pains came upon her, by the trunk of a palm-tree. She said, "I wish I had died before this, and been completely forgotten."

24. Whereupon he called her from beneath her: "Do not worry; your Lord has placed a stream beneath you.

25. And shake the trunk of the palm-tree towards you, and it will drop ripe dates by you."