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Remembering your Lord's mercy to His slave Zakariyya,
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when he called on his Lord in secret
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and said, 'My Lord, my bones have lost their strength and my head is crowned with white, but in calling on You, My Lord, I have never been disappointed.
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I fear my relatives when I am gone and my wife is barren, so give me an heir from You
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to be my inheritor and the inheritor of the family of Ya'qub, and make him, my Lord, pleasing to You.'
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'Zakariyya! We give you the good news of a boy named Yahya, a name We have given to no one else before.'
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He said, 'My Lord! How can I have a boy when my wife is barren and I have reached advanced old age?'
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He said, 'It will be so! Your Lord says, “That is easy for Me to do. I created you before, when you were not anything.”'
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He said, 'My Lord, give me a Sign.' He said, 'Your Sign is not to speak to people for three nights despite the fact that you are perfectly able to.'
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He came out to his people from the Upper Room and gestured to them to glorify Allah in the morning and the evening.
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'Yahya, take hold of the Book with vigour.' We gave him judgement while still a child,
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and tenderness and purity from Us – he had taqwa –
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and devotion to his parents – he was not insolent or disobedient.
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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 again alive.
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Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people to an eastern place,
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and veiled herself from them. Then We sent Our Ruh to her and it took on for her the form of a handsome, well-built man.
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She said, 'I seek refuge from you with the All-Merciful if you have taqwa.'
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He said, 'I am only your Lord's messenger so that He can give you a pure boy.'
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She said, 'How can I have a boy when no man has touched me and I am not an unchaste woman?'
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He said, 'It will be so! Your Lord says, “That is easy for Me. It is so that We can make him a Sign for mankind and a mercy from Us.” It is a matter already decreed.'
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So she conceived him and withdrew with him to a distant place.
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The pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said, 'Oh if only I had died before this time and was something discarded and forgotten!'
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A voice called out to her from under her, 'Do not grieve! Your Lord has placed a small stream at your feet.
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Shake the trunk of the palm towards you and fresh, ripe dates will drop down onto you.
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Eat and drink and delight your eyes. If you should see anyone at all, just say, “I have made a vow of abstinence to the All-Merciful and today I will not speak to any human being.”'
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She brought him to her people, carrying him. They said, 'Maryam! You have done an unthinkable thing!
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Sister of Harun, your father was not an evil man nor was your mother an unchaste woman!'
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She pointed towards him. They said, 'How can a baby in the cradle speak?'
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He said, 'I am the slave of Allah, He has given me the Book and made me a Prophet.
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