The Qur'an: English translation with parallel Arabic text (Check info AND delete this occurrence: |c OWCH |t Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks) by Haleem M.A.S. Abdel

Author:Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel [Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

19: 26–38

26so eat, drink, be glad, and say to anyone you may see: “I have vowed to the Lord of Mercy to abstain1 from conversation, and I will not talk to anyone today.” ’

27She went back to her people carrying the child, and they said, ‘Mary! You have done something terrible! 28Sister2 of Aaron! Your father was not a bad man; your mother was not unchaste!’ 29She pointed at him. They said, ‘How can we converse with an infant ?’3 30[But] he said: ‘I am a servant of God. He has granted me the Scripture; made me a prophet; 31made me blessed wherever I may be. He commanded me to pray, to give alms as long as I live, 32to cherish my mother. He did not make me domineering or graceless. 33Peace was on me the day I was born, and will be on me the day I die and the day I am raised to life again.’ 34Such was Jesus, son of Mary.

[This is] a statement of the Truth about which they are in doubt: 35it would not befit God to have a child. He is far above that: when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is.4 36‘God is my Lord and your Lord, so serve Him: that is a straight path.’5 37But factions have differed among themselves. What suffering will come to those who obscure the truth when a dreadful Day arrives! 38How sharp of hearing, how sharp of sight they will be when they come to Us, although now they are clearly off course!

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