مريم
Mary
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
qāla kadhāliki qāla rabbuki huwa ʿalayya hayyinun walinajʿalahu āyatan lilnnāsi waraḥmatan minnā wakāna amran maqḍiyyan
He said, "Thus [it will be]; your Lord says, 'It is easy for Me, and We will make him a sign to the people and a mercy from Us. And it is a matter [already] decreed.'"
faḥamalathu fa-intabadhat bihi makānan qaṣiyyan
So she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a remote place.
fa-ajāahā l-makhāḍu ilā jidh'ʿi l-nakhlati qālat yālaytanī mittu qabla hādhā wakuntu nasyan mansiyyan
And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."
fanādāhā min taḥtihā allā taḥzanī qad jaʿala rabbuki taḥtaki sariyyan
But he called her from below her, "Do not grieve; your Lord has provided beneath you a stream.
wahuzzī ilayki bijidh'ʿi l-nakhlati tusāqiṭ ʿalayki ruṭaban janiyyan
And shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree; it will drop upon you ripe, fresh dates.
fakulī wa-ish'rabī waqarrī ʿaynan fa-immā tarayinna mina l-bashari aḥadan faqūlī innī nadhartu lilrraḥmāni ṣawman falan ukallima l-yawma insiyyan
So eat and drink and be contented. And if you see from among humanity anyone, say, 'Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Merciful abstention, so I will not speak today to [any] man.'"
fa-atat bihi qawmahā taḥmiluhu qālū yāmaryamu laqad ji'ti shayan fariyyan
Then she brought him to her people, carrying him. They said, "O Mary, you have certainly done a thing unprecedented.
yāukh'ta hārūna mā kāna abūki im'ra-a sawin wamā kānat ummuki baghiyyan
O sister [i.e., descendant] of Aaron, your father was not a man of evil, nor was your mother unchaste."
fa-ashārat ilayhi qālū kayfa nukallimu man kāna fī l-mahdi ṣabiyyan
So she pointed to him. They said, "How can we speak to one who is in the cradle a child?"
qāla innī ʿabdu l-lahi ātāniya l-kitāba wajaʿalanī nabiyyan
[Jesus] said, "Indeed, I am the servant of Allāh. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet.
wajaʿalanī mubārakan ayna mā kuntu wa-awṣānī bil-ṣalati wal-zakati mā dum'tu ḥayyan
And He has made me blessed wherever I am and has enjoined upon me prayer and zakāh as long as I remain alive
wabarran biwālidatī walam yajʿalnī jabbāran shaqiyyan
And [made me] dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me a wretched tyrant.
wal-salāmu ʿalayya yawma wulidttu wayawma amūtu wayawma ub'ʿathu ḥayyan
And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I am raised alive."
dhālika ʿīsā ub'nu maryama qawla l-ḥaqi alladhī fīhi yamtarūna
That is Jesus, the son of Mary - the word of truth about which they are in dispute.
mā kāna lillahi an yattakhidha min waladin sub'ḥānahu idhā qaḍā amran fa-innamā yaqūlu lahu kun fayakūnu
It is not [befitting] for Allāh to take a son; exalted is He! When He decrees an affair, He only says to it, "Be," and it is.
wa-inna l-laha rabbī warabbukum fa-uʿ'budūhu hādhā ṣirāṭun mus'taqīmun
[Jesus said], "And indeed, Allāh is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a straight path."
fa-ikh'talafa l-aḥzābu min baynihim fawaylun lilladhīna kafarū min mashhadi yawmin ʿaẓīmin
Then the factions differed [concerning Jesus] from among them, so woe to those who disbelieved - from the scene of a tremendous Day.
asmiʿ bihim wa-abṣir yawma yatūnanā lākini l-ẓālimūna l-yawma fī ḍalālin mubīnin
How [clearly] they will hear and see the Day they come to Us, but the wrongdoers today are in clear error.
wa-andhir'hum yawma l-ḥasrati idh quḍiya l-amru wahum fī ghaflatin wahum lā yu'minūna
And warn them, [O Muḥammad], of the Day of Regret, when the matter will be concluded; and [yet], they are in [a state of] heedlessness, and they do not believe.
innā naḥnu narithu l-arḍa waman ʿalayhā wa-ilaynā yur'jaʿūna
Indeed, it is We who will inherit the earth and whoever is on it, and to Us they will be returned.