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Kâf Hâ Yâ 'Ain Sâd - Allâh is sufficient for all, and He is the True Guide, Bestower of mercy and security and blessings, the All-Knowing, the Supermost, Truthful.
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(This is) an account of the mercy of your Lord (shown) to His servant Zachariah,
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When he called upon his God, crying aloud (in humble supplication).
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He said (praying), 'My Lord! now the very bones within me have waxed feeble and the hair of (my) head are all gray and hoary, my Lord! never have I been (hitherto) deprived of a favourable response to my prayer to You.
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'I fear (for the unrighteousness of) my kinsfolk after me, and my wife is barren. Grant me by Your (special) grace a (pious and righteous) successor,
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'Who may be an heir to me and inherit (the divine blessings promised to) the House of Jacob and make him, my Lord! well-pleasing (to You).'
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(God accepted his prayer and said,) 'Zachariah! We give you the glad tidings of (the birth of) a son, named Yahyâ (John, - who will live long). We have made none like him (in your house) before this.'
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He (Zachariah) said, 'My Lord! how shall I beget a son when my wife is barren and I have (already) reached the extreme (limit of) old age?'
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(The Lord) said, 'So shall it be,' and (the angel bearing the revelation) said, 'Your Lord says, "It is easy for Me, and behold, I have created you before this whereas you (too) were nothing".'
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He (Zachariah) said, 'My Lord! appoint for me a commandment.' (The Lord) said, 'The commandment for you is that you shall not speak to people for three successive (days and) nights, being in sound health.
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Then he (Zachariah) went forth to his people from the Sanctuary and told them in a low voice and by signs, to glorify (their Lord) morning and evening.
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(We said to John,) 'Yahyâ! hold fast the (divine) Book.' And while he was yet a child We gave him wisdom,
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And tenderheartedness and purity by Our (special) grace. He was one who carefully guarded against evil.
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And (he was) dutiful towards his parents and he was neither arrogant nor rebellious.
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Blessed was he the day he was born and the day he died and (peace will be upon him) the day he will be raised to life (again).
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And give an account of Mary in this Book when she withdrew from her people to an eastern spacious place (of the temple).
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Then she screened herself off from them. Then We sent to her Our (angel of) revelation and he presented himself to her in the form of a perfect and well-proportioned man.
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Mary said, 'I invoke the Most Gracious (God) to defend me from you. If you guard the least against evil (leave me alone).'
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He said, 'I am but a messenger of your Lord. I give you (glad tidings of) a most pure son.'
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She said, 'How can I bear a son while no man (has married me and) has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste.'
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(The angel) said, 'So the fact is (just as you describe). Your Lord has said, "It is easy for Me. (We shall do it) so that We make him a sign and a (source of) blessing from Us for the people. It is a matter ordained".'
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She (Mary) conceived him (the child) and withdrew with him to a remote place.
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(At the time of the delivery of the child) the throes of child birth drove her to the trunk of the palm-tree. She said, 'Oh! would that I had become unconscious before this and had become a thing gone and forgotten.'
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Then a voice called her from the side of the slope by her (saying), 'Do not grieve, your Lord has placed a rivulet on the side of the slope by you (and a chief of the nation has born to you).
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'Shake the branch of the palm-tree, drawing it towards you, it will cause fresh and ripe dates to fall upon you.
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'Eat therefore and drink and be happy. Then if you see any human being tell (him), "I have vowed a fast to the Gracious God so I will not speak to any human being today".'
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(When Jesus grew up) she took him to her people carrying him on a mount. They said, 'Mary! you have brought a strange thing.
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'O sister of Aaron! your father was not a bad man, nor was your mother unchaste.'
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Thereupon she pointed to him (her son Jesus meaning thereby that he will answer them). They said, 'How should we speak to one who was (till recently) a child in the cradle?'
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(It came to pass that the son of Mary) said, 'I am indeed a servant of Allâh, He has given me the Book, and made me a Prophet.
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