A.J.Arberry · MealMerkezi.Net

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Kaf Ha Ya Ain Sad

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The mention of thy Lord's mercy unto His servant Zachariah;

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when he called upon his Lord secretly

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saying, 'O my Lord, behold the bones within me are feeble and my head is all aflame with hoariness. And in calling on Thee, my Lord, I have never been hitherto unprosperous.

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And now I fear my kinsfolk after I am gone; and my wife is barren. So give me, from Thee, a kinsman

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who shall be my inheritor and the inheritor of the House of Jacob; and make him, my Lord, well-pleasing.'

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'O Zachariah, We give thee good tidings of a boy, whose name is John. No namesake have We given him aforetime.'

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He said, 'O my Lord, how shall I have a son, seeing my wife is barren, and I have attained to the declining of old age?'

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Said He, 'So it shall be; thy Lord says, "Easy is that for Me, seeing that I created thee aforetime, when thou wast nothing."'

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He said, 'Lord, appoint to me some sign.' Said He, 'Thy sign is that thou shall not speak to men, though being without fault, three nights.'

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So he came forth unto his people from the Sanctuary, then he made signal to them, 'Give you glory at dawn and evening.'

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'O John, take the Book forcefully'; and We gave him judgment, yet a little child,

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and a tenderness from Us, and purity; and he was godfearing,

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and cherishing his parents, not arrogant, rebellious.

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'Peace be upon him, the day he was born, and the day he dies, and the day he is raised up alive!'

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And mention in the Book Mary when she withdrew from her people to an eastern place,

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and she took a veil apart from them; then We sent unto her Our Spirit that presented himself to her a man without fault.

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She said, 'I take refuge in the All-merciful from thee!

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If thou fearest God... He said, 'I am but a messenger come from thy Lord, to give thee a boy most pure.

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She said, 'How shall I have a son whom no mortal has touched, neither have I been unchaste?'

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He said, 'Even so thy Lord has said: "Easy is that for Me; and that We may appoint him a sign unto men and a mercy from Us; it is a thing decreed."'

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So she conceived him, and withdrew with him to a distant place.

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And the birthpangs surprised her by the trunk of the palm-tree. She said, 'Would I had died ere this, and become a thing forgotten!'

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But the one that was below her called to her, 'Nay, do not sorrow; see, thy Lord has set below thee a rivulet.

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Shake also to thee the palm-trunk, and there shall come tumbling upon thee dates fresh and ripe.

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Eat therefore, and drink, and be comforted; and if thou shouldst see any mortal, say, "I have vowed to the All-merciful a fast, and today I will not speak to any man.

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Then she brought the child to her folk carrying him; and they said, 'Mary, thou hast surely committed a monstrous thing!

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Sister of Aaron, thy father was not a wicked man, nor was thy mother a woman unchaste.'

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Mary pointed to the child then; but they said, 'How shall we speak to one who is still in the cradle, a little child?'

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He said, 'Lo, I am God's servant; God has given me the Book, and made me a Prophet.

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