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Kaf, Ha, Ya, ‘Ayn, Suad.
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[This is] an account of your Lord’s mercy on His servant, Zechariah,
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when he called out to his Lord with a secret cry.
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He said, ‘My Lord! Indeed my bones have become feeble, and my head has turned white with age, yet never have I, my Lord, been disappointed in supplicating You!
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Indeed I fear my kinsmen, after me, and my wife is barren. So grant me from Yourself an heir
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who may inherit from me and inherit from the House of Jacob, and make him, my Lord, pleasing [to You]!’
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‘O Zechariah! Indeed We give you the good news of a son, whose name is ‘‘John.’’ Never before have We made anyone his namesake.’
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He said, ‘My Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I am already advanced in age?’
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He said, ‘So shall it be. Your Lord has said, ‘‘It is simple for Me.’’ Certainly I created you before when you were nothing.’
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He said, ‘My Lord! Appoint a sign for me.’ He said, ‘Your sign is that you will not speak to the people for three complete nights.’
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So he emerged before his people from the Temple, and signalled to them that they should glorify [Allah] morning and evening.
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‘O John!’ [We said,] ‘Hold on with power to the Book!’ And We gave him judgement while still a child,
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and a compassion and purity from Us. He was Godwary
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and good to his parents, and was not self-willed or disobedient.
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Peace be to him, the day he was born, and the day he dies, and the day he is raised alive!
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And mention in the Book Mary, when she withdrew from her family to an easterly place.
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Thus did she seclude herself from them, whereupon We sent to her Our Spirit and he became incarnate for her as a well-proportioned human.
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She said, ‘I seek the protection of the All-beneficent from you, should you be Godwary!’
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He said, ‘I am only a messenger of your Lord that I may give you a pure son.’
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She said, ‘How shall I have a child seeing that no human being has ever touched me, nor have I been unchaste?’
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He said, ‘So shall it be. Your Lord says, ‘‘It is simple for Me.’’ And so that We may make him a sign for mankind and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter [already] decided.’
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Thus she conceived him, then withdrew with him to a distant place.
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The birth pangs brought her to the trunk of a date palm. She said, ‘I wish I had died before this and become a forgotten thing, beyond recall.’
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Thereupon he called her from below her [saying,] ‘Do not grieve! Your Lord has made a spring to flow at your feet.
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Shake the trunk of the palm tree, freshly picked dates will drop upon you.
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Eat, drink, and be comforted. Then if you see any human, say, ‘‘Indeed I have vowed a fast to the All-beneficent, so I will not speak to any human today.’’ ’
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Then carrying him she brought him to her people. They said, ‘O Mary, you have certainly come up with an odd thing!
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O sister of Aaron[’s lineage]! Your father was not an evil man, nor was your mother unchaste.’
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Thereat she pointed to him. They said, ‘How can we speak to one who is yet a baby in the cradle?’
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He said, ‘Indeed I am a servant of Allah! He has given me the Book and made me a prophet.
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