Subject: Surat Mary (Ayat/Verses 1-40) Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:13 am
Mary
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful:
[19:1] Kāf hā yā ‘ayn sād.
[19:2] A mention of your Lord's mercy to His servant Zachariah,
[19:3] when he called out to his Lord a call in secret.
[19:4] He said, 'My Lord, truly the bones within me have become feeble, and my head is alight with grey hair, and I have never been in my supplications to You, my Lord, unsuccessful.
[19:5] And truly I fear my kinsfolk after me, and my wife is barren. So grant me from Yourself a successor,
[19:6] who may inherit from me and inherit from the House of Jacob, and make him, my Lord, acceptable'.
[19:7] 'O Zachariah! Indeed We give you good tidings of a boy, whose name is John. Never before have We made anyone his namesake'.
[19:8] He said, 'My Lord, how shall I have a son when my wife is barren and I have reached infirm old age?'
[19:9] He said, 'It shall be so! Your Lord says, "It is easy for Me, for I certainly created you before when you were nothing" '.
[19:10] He said, 'Lord, appoint for me some sign'. Said He, 'Your sign is that you shall not speak to people for three nights, while [you are] in sound health'.
[19:11] So he emerged before his people from the sanctuary and signalled to them, 'Make glorifications at morning and evening'.
[19:12] O John! Hold on to the Scripture firmly'. And We gave him judgement, while still a child,
[19:13] and compassion from Us, and purity, and he was God-fearing,
[19:14] and dutiful to his parents. And he was not arrogant or rebellious.
[19:15] 'And peace be upon him, the day he was born, and the day he dies, and the day he shall be raised alive!'
[19:16] And mention in the Book Mary when she withdrew from her family to an easterly place.
[19:17] Thus she veiled herself from them, whereupon We sent to her Our Spirit, and he assumed before her the likeness of a well-proportioned human.
[19:18] She said, 'Lo! I seek refuge in the Compassionate One from you! If you fear God'.
[19:19] He said, 'I am only a messenger of your Lord, that I may give you a boy [who shall be] pure'.
[19:20] She said, 'How shall I have a boy when no human being has [ever] touched me, neither have I been unchaste?'
[19:21] He said, 'It shall be so! Your Lord has said: "It is easy for Me, and so that We may make him a sign for mankind, and a mercy from Us. And it is a thing [already] decreed" '.
[19:22] Thus she conceived him and then withdrew with him to a distant place.
[19:23] And the birth pangs brought her to the trunk of the palm-tree. She said, 'O would that I had died before this and become a forgotten thing, beyond recall!'
[19:24] Then he called her from below her, 'Do not grieve. Your Lord has made below you a rivulet.
[19:25] And shake the trunk of the palm-tree towards you - there will drop on you dates fresh and ripe.
[19:26] So eat and drink, and [let] your eye be comforted; and if you [happen to] see any human being, then say, "I have vowed to the Compassionate One a fast, so I will not speak to any human today" '.
[19:27] Then, carrying him, she brought him to her folk and they said, 'O Mary, truly you have done a curious thing!
[19:28] O sister of Aaron your father was not a wicked man, nor was your mother unchaste'.
[19:29] Thereat she pointed to him. They said, 'How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, [still] a little child?'
[19:30] He said, 'Lo! I am God's servant. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet.
[19:31] And He has made me blessed wherever I may be and He has enjoined upon me prayer and alms-giving, as long as I remain alive;
[19:32] and [He has made me] dutiful towards my mother. And He has not made me arrogant, wretched.
[19:33] And peace be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!'
[19:34] ] That is Jesus, son of Mary, a statement of truth concerning which they are in doubt.
[19:35] It is not [befitting] for God to take to Himself a son. Glory be to Him. When He decrees a thing, He only says to it, 'Be!', and it is.
[19:36] And indeed God is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him. This is a straight path.
[19:37] But the factions differed among themselves. So woe to those who disbelieve at the scene of an awful Day.
[19:38] How hearing they are and seeing on the Day when they come to Us. Yet the evildoers today are in manifest error.
[19:39] And warn them of the Day of Regret, when the matter will be decided, while they are [yet] heedless and do not believe.
[19:40] Indeed We shall inherit the earth and all who are on it, and to Us they shall be returned.
Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:13 am