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Surah Maryam (Mary) 19 : 8

قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًا وَقَدْ بَلَغْتُ مِنَ ٱلْكِبَرِ عِتِيًّا

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?"

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(19:8:1)
qāla
He said
(19:8:2)
rabbi
My Lord
(19:8:3)
annā
How
(19:8:4)
yakūnu
can
(19:8:5)
(19:8:6)
ghulāmun
a boy
(19:8:7)
wakānati
while is
(19:8:8)
im'ra-atī
my wife
(19:8:9)
ʿāqiran
barren
(19:8:10)
(19:8:11)
balaghtu
I have reached
(19:8:12)
(19:8:13)
l-kibari
the old age
(19:8:14)
ʿitiyyan
extreme

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Explanatory Note

Zachariah, who was deeply involved in his supplication, passionately expressing his desire and urging his case, was suddenly alerted by this speedy answer to his prayer. The reality stares him in the face: he is well advanced in years, his bones feeble, his hair completely grey, and his wife barren, having given him no child when he was in his prime. How is he to have a child of his own? He wants to be reassured and to know the means by which God will give him this son.

He is facing the reality, as well as God’s promise. He certainly trusts that God’s promise will be fulfilled. He only wants reassurance and to know how, considering his circumstances, the fulfilment will take place. That would give him much needed reassurance. It is a perfectly normal condition in a situation like that faced by the noble and God-fearing prophet, Zachariah. Needless to say, he was only a human being who cannot ignore the reality. Hence, he would love to know how God will reverse it.

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It was revealed before the first migration to Abyssinia. We learn from an authentic hadith that Ja’afar (a companion of the Prophet) recited v. 1-40 of this Surah to the court of the Negus when the Muslims had been summoned.

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