قَالَ كَذٰلِكِ ۚ قَالَ رَبُّكِ هُوَ عَلَیَّ هَیِّنٌ ۚ وَ لِنَجْعَلَهٗۤ اٰیَةً لِّلنَّاسِ وَ رَحْمَةً مِّنَّا ۚ وَ كَانَ اَمْرًا مَّقْضِیًّا۝۲۱

He said: "Thus will it be. Your Lord said: ´It is easy for Me,´ and that: ´We shall make him a sign for men and a blessing from Us.´ This is a thing already decreed."

فَحَمَلَتْهُ فَانْتَبَذَتْ بِهٖ مَكَانًا قَصِیًّا۝۲۲

When she conceived him she went away to a distant place.

فَاَجَآءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ اِلٰی جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ ۚ قَالَتْ یٰلَیْتَنِیْ مِتُّ قَبْلَ هٰذَا وَ كُنْتُ نَسْیًا مَّنْسِیًّا۝۲۳

The birth pangs led her to the trunk of a date-palm tree. "Would that I had died before this," she said, "and become a thing forgotten, unremembered."

فَنَادٰىهَا مِنْ تَحْتِهَاۤ اَلَّا تَحْزَنِیْ قَدْ جَعَلَ رَبُّكِ تَحْتَكِ سَرِیًّا۝۲۴

Then (a voice) called to her from below: "Grieve not; your Lord has made a rivulet gush forth right below you.

وَ هُزِّیْۤ اِلَیْكِ بِجِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ تُسٰقِطْ عَلَیْكِ رُطَبًا جَنِیًّاؗ۝۲۵

Shake the trunk of the date-palm tree, and it will drop ripe dates for you.

فَكُلِیْ وَ اشْرَبِیْ وَ قَرِّیْ عَیْنًا ۚ فَاِمَّا تَرَیِنَّ مِنَ الْبَشَرِ اَحَدًا ۙ فَقُوْلِیْۤ اِنِّیْ نَذَرْتُ لِلرَّحْمٰنِ صَوْمًا فَلَنْ اُكَلِّمَ الْیَوْمَ اِنْسِیًّاۚ۝۲۶

Eat and drink, and be at peace. If you see any man, tell him: ´I have verily vowed a fast to Ar-Rahman and cannot speak to any one this day.´

فَاَتَتْ بِهٖ قَوْمَهَا تَحْمِلُهٗ ؕ قَالُوْا یٰمَرْیَمُ لَقَدْ جِئْتِ شَیْـًٔا فَرِیًّا۝۲۷

Then she brought the child to her people. They exclaimed: "O Mary, you have done a most astonishing thing!

یٰۤاُخْتَ هٰرُوْنَ مَا كَانَ اَبُوْكِ امْرَاَ سَوْءٍ وَّ مَا كَانَتْ اُمُّكِ بَغِیًّاۖۚ۝۲۸

O sister of Aaron, your father was not a wicked person, nor your mother sinful!"

فَاَشَارَتْ اِلَیْهِ ؕ قَالُوْا كَیْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَنْ كَانَ فِی الْمَهْدِ صَبِیًّا۝۲۹

But she pointed towards him. "How can we talk to one," they said, "who is only an infant in the cradle?"

قَالَ اِنِّیْ عَبْدُ اللّٰهِ ؕ۫ اٰتٰىنِیَ الْكِتٰبَ وَ جَعَلَنِیْ نَبِیًّاۙ۝۳۰

"I am a servant of God," he answered. "He has given me a Book and made me a prophet,