فَلَمَّا
وَضَعَتۡهَا
قَالَتۡ
رَبِّ
إِنِّي
وَضَعۡتُهَآ
أُنثَىٰ
وَٱللَّهُ
أَعۡلَمُ
بِمَا
وَضَعَتۡ
وَلَيۡسَ
ٱلذَّكَرُ
كَٱلۡأُنثَىٰۖ
وَإِنِّي
سَمَّيۡتُهَا
مَرۡيَمَ
وَإِنِّيٓ
أُعِيذُهَا
بِكَ
وَذُرِّيَّتَهَا
مِنَ
ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ
ٱلرَّجِيمِ
٣٦
When she delivered, she said, “My Lord! I have given birth to a girl,”—and Allah fully knew what she had delivered—“and the male is not like the female.1 I have named her Mary, and I seek Your protection for her and her offspring from Satan, the accursed.”2
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
But when she delivered her, she said, "My Lord, I have delivered a female." And Allāh was most knowing of what she delivered, and the male is not like the female. "And I have named her Mary, and I seek refuge for her in You and [for] her descendants from Satan, the expelled [from the mercy of Allāh]."
— Saheeh International
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Story of Maryam's Birth
The wife of `Imran mentioned here is the mother of Maryam, and her name is Hannah bint Faqudh. Muhammad bin Ishaq mentioned that Hannah could not have children and that one day, she saw a bird feeding its chick. She wished she could have children and supplicated to Allah t
…The Story of Maryam's Birth
The wife of `Imran mentioned here is the mother of Maryam, and her name is Hannah bint Faqudh. Muhammad bin Ishaq mentioned
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