Surah 66. At-Tahrim, Ayah 12
| وَمَرْيَمَ ابْنَتَ عِمْرَانَ الَّتِي أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِنَا وَصَدَّقَتْ بِكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّهَا وَكُتُبِهِ وَكَانَتْ مِنَ الْقَانِتِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- maryam ibnat cimraan 'allate ah.s.anat farj -haa fa- nafakhnaa fe -hi min roh. -naa wa- s.addaqat bi- kalimaat rabb -haa wa- kutub -hi wa- kaanat min al- qaaniten |
| Pickthall | : | And Mary, daughter of Imran, whose body was chaste, therefor We breathed therein something of Our Spirit. And she put faith in the words of her Lord and His Scriptures, and was of the obedient. |
| Asad | : | And [We have propounded yet another parable of God-consciousness in the story of] Mary, the daughter of 'Imran,24 who guarded her chastity, whereupon We breathed of Our spirit into that [which was in her womb],25 and who accepted the truth of her Sustainer's words - and [thus,] of His revelations26 - and was one of the truly devout. |
| Malik | : | Another example is in the life of Maryam, the daughter of `Imran, who guarded her chastity, and into whose womb We breathed of Our spirit, who testified to the words of her Rabb, and His scriptures, and was one of the obedient. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And Mary the daughter of `Imran who guarded her chastity; and We breathed into her (body) of Our spirit; and she testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and of His Revelations and was one of the devout (Servants). 5551 5552 5553 |
Note - 24I.e., a descendant of the House of 'Imran (cf. the last
third of note [22] on 3:33).
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Note - 25I.e., into the as yet unborn child (Razi, thus explaining
the pronoun in fihi). For an explanation of the
much-misunderstood allegorical phrase, "We breathed of
Our spirit into it", see note [87] on 21:91.
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Note - 26For the meaning of God's "words" (kalimat), see note [28]
on 3:39.
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Note - 5551'Imran was traditionally the name of the father of Mary
the mother of Jesus: see n. 375 to iii. 35. She was one
of the purest of women, though the Jews accused her
falsely of unchastity: cf. xix. 27-28.
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Note - 5552Cf. xxi. 91. As a virgin she gave birth to Jesus: xix.
16-29. In xxxii. 9, it is said of Adam's progeny, man,
that Allah "fashioned him in due proportion, and breathed
into him something of His spirit". In xv. 29, similar
words are used with reference to Adam. The virgin birth
should not therefore be supposed to imply that Allah was
the father of Jesus in the sense in which Greek mythology
makes Zeus the father of Apollo by Latona or of Minos by
Europa. And yet that is the doctrine to which the
Christian idea of "the only begotten Son of God" leads.
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Note - 5553Mary had true faith and testified her faith in the
prophet Jesus and in his revelation as well as in the
revelations which he came to confirm (and to foreshadow).
She was of the company of the Devout of all ages. The
fact that Qanitin (devout) is not here in the feminine
gender implies that the highest spiritual dignity is
independent of sex. And so we close the lesson of this
Sura, that while sex is a fact of our physical existence,
the sexes should act in harmony and cooperation for in
the highest spiritual matters we are all one. "We made
her and her son a Sign for all peoples. Verily this
Brotherhood of yours is a single Brotherhood and I am
your Lord and Cherisher: therefore serve Me and no other"
(xxi. 91-92).
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'Imran was traditionally the name of the father of Mary the mother of Jesus: see n. 375 to iii. 35. She was one of the purest of women, though the Jews accused her falsely of unchastity: cf. xix. 27-28. |
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Cf. xxi. 91. As a virgin she gave birth to Jesus: xix. 16-29. In xxxii. 9, it is said of Adam's progeny, man, that Allah "fashioned him in due proportion, and breathed into him something of His spirit". In xv. 29, similar words are used with reference to Adam. The virgin birth should not therefore be supposed to imply that Allah was the father of Jesus in the sense in which Greek mythology makes Zeus the father of Apollo by Latona or of Minos by Europa. And yet that is the doctrine to which the Christian idea of "the only begotten Son of God" leads. |
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Mary had true faith and testified her faith in the prophet Jesus and in his revelation as well as in the revelations which he came to confirm (and to foreshadow). She was of the company of the Devout of all ages. The fact that Qanitin (devout) is not here in the feminine gender implies that the highest spiritual dignity is independent of sex. And so we close the lesson of this Sura, that while sex is a fact of our physical existence, the sexes should act in harmony and cooperation for in the highest spiritual matters we are all one. "We made her and her son a Sign for all peoples. Verily this Brotherhood of yours is a single Brotherhood and I am your Lord and Cherisher: therefore serve Me and no other" (xxi. 91-92). |
