And if thou meetest any mortal, say: Lo! I have vowed a fast unto the Beneficent, and may not speak this day to any mortal.﴾26﴿ Then she brought him to her own folk, carrying him. She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become a thing of naught, forgotten!﴾23﴿ Then (one) cried unto her from below her, saying: Grieve not! Thy Lord hath placed a rivulet beneath thee,﴾24﴿ And shake the trunk of the palm-tree toward thee, thou wilt cause ripe dates to fall upon thee.﴾25﴿ So eat and drink and be consoled. And (it will be) that We may make of him a revelation for mankind and a mercy from Us, and it is a thing ordained.﴾21﴿ And she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a far place.﴾22﴿ And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree. Then We sent unto her Our Spirit and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man.﴾17﴿ She said: Lo! I seek refuge in the Beneficent One from thee, if thou art Allah-fearing.﴾18﴿ He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on thee a faultless son.﴾19﴿ She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste?﴾20﴿ He said: So (it will be). And he was not arrogant, rebellious.﴾14﴿ Peace on him the day he was born, and the day he dieth and the day he shall be raised alive!﴾15﴿ And make mention of Mary in the Scripture, when she had withdrawn from her people to a chamber looking East,﴾16﴿ And had chosen seclusion from them. And we gave him wisdom when a child,﴾12﴿ And compassion from Our presence, and purity and he was devout,﴾13﴿ And dutiful toward his parents. He said: Thy token is that thou, with no bodily defect, shalt not speak unto mankind three nights.﴾10﴿ Then he came forth unto his people from the sanctuary, and signified to them: Glorify your Lord at break of day and fall of night.﴾11﴿ (And it was said unto his son): O John! Hold fast the Scripture. Thy Lord saith: It is easy for Me, even as I created thee before, when thou wast naught.﴾9﴿ He said: My Lord! Appoint for me some token. And make him, my Lord, acceptable (unto Thee).﴾6﴿ (It was said unto him): O Zachariah! Lo! We bring thee tidings of a son whose name is John we have given the same name to none before (him).﴾7﴿ He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when my wife is barren and I have reached infirm old age?﴾8﴿ He said: So (it will be).
Oh, give me from Thy presence a successor﴾5﴿ Who shall inherit of me and inherit (also) of the house of Jacob. Sad.﴾1﴿ A mention of the mercy of thy Lord unto His servant Zachariah.﴾2﴿ When he cried unto his Lord a cry in secret,﴾3﴿ Saying: My Lord! Lo! the bones of me wax feeble and my head is shining with grey hair, and I have never been unblest in prayer to Thee, my Lord.﴾4﴿ Lo! I fear my kinsfolk after me, since my wife is barren. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.