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Kaf. Ha. Ya. ‘Ayn. Sad.
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A mention of your Lord’s mercy to His servant Zachariah:
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When he invoked his Lord with a call in secret,
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Saying: "My Lord! My bones have grown feeble and my head glistens with gray hair from old age, and, my Lord, I have never been unblessed in my prayer to You.
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I have fears about (how) my kinsmen (will act in respect of continuing my mission, and safeguarding the future of Mary), and my wife is barren. So bestow upon me a successor out of Your grace,
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Who will be my heir (in my duty) and heir to (the straight way of) the House of Jacob; and make him, my Lord, one with whom You are well-pleased.
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(The angels called out to him on God’s behalf:) "O Zachariah! We give you the glad tidings of a son whose name will be Yahya (John). We have not given this name to anyone before."
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He said: "My Lord! How shall I have a son when my wife is barren and I have already reached infirmity in old age?"
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(The angel) answered: "Just so. Your Lord says: ‘It is easy for Me – assuredly I did create you before, when you had been nothing.’ "
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(Zachariah) prayed: "My Lord, appoint a sign for me." "Your sign," He said, "is that you will not be able to speak to people for three nights."
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So he (Zachariah) came out to his people from the sanctuary (where he had been praying in the Temple), and signified to them: "Glorify your Lord at daybreak and in the afternoon."
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(John was born and when he grew up, We commanded him:) "O John! Hold fast to the Book (the Torah) with (all your) strength!" And We granted him sound, wise judgment (and true understanding of God’s Law) while he was yet a little boy;
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And (the gift of) compassion from Our Presence, and purity. He was very pious and righteous,
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And dutiful towards his parents, and he was never unruly, rebellious.
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So peace be upon him on the day he was born and the day of his death, and the day when he will be raised to life.
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And make mention, in the Book, of Mary. She withdrew from her family to a chamber (in the Temple) facing east (to devote herself to worship and reflection).
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Thus she kept herself in seclusion from people. Then We sent to her Our spirit, and it appeared before her in the form of a perfect man.
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She said: "I seek refuge in the All-Merciful from you, if you are a pious, God-conscious one."
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He replied: "I am only a messenger of your Lord to be a means (for God’s gift) to you of a pure son."
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She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing no mortal has ever touched me, and I have never been unchaste?"
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He said: "Just so. Your Lord says: ‘It is easy for Me; and (it must be just so) so that We make him for humankind a sign (of Our Power on account of his birth) and a mercy from Us (on account of his being a Messenger). It is a matter already decreed."
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So she conceived him, and then she withdrew with him to a distant place.
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And the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had become a thing forgotten, completely forgotten!"
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(A voice) called out to her from beneath her: "Do not grieve! Your Lord has set a rivulet at your feet.
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And shake the trunk of the date-palm towards you: it will drop fresh, ripe dates upon you.
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So eat and drink, and be comforted. If you should see some person, say (through gesture): I have vowed a fast of silence to the All-Merciful, so I cannot speak to any human being today."
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She came to her people, carrying him. They exclaimed: "O Mary! You have come for sure with an unheard of, mighty thing!
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O sister of Aaron, your father was never a wicked man, nor was your mother unchaste.
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Mary pointed to him (the infant, signifying that they should ask him). They cried: "How can we talk to one in the cradle, an infant boy?"
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(The infant) said: "Surely I am ‘abdu’l-Lah (a servant of God). He (has already decreed that He) will give me the Book (the Gospel) and make me a Prophet.
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