Surah Maryam

Kaf Ha Ya Ain Sad

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

when he called upon his Lord secretly

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.

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

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

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

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?'

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

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.'

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

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

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

and cherishing his parents, not arrogant, rebellious.

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