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Surah 19. Maryam, Ayah 5

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وَإِنِّى خِفْتُ ٱلْمَوَٰلِىَ مِن وَرَآءِى وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًا فَهَبْ لِى مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيًّا
Wainnee khiftu almaw a liya min war a ee wak a nati imraatee AA a qiran fahab lee min ladunka waliyy a n
"Now, behold, I am afraid of [what] my kinsfolk [will do] after I am gone,5 for my wife has always been barren. Bestow, then, upon me, out of Thy grace, the gift of a successor
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "after me". He evidently anticipated that his kinsfolk - who, like himself, were priests attached to the Temple - would be morally too weak to fulfil their duties with dignity and conviction (Razi), and thus, perhaps, unable to safeguard the future of Mary, whose guardian he was (cf. the first paragraph of 3:37 ).

Yet I fear about my relatives after me, for my wife is barren, grant me a heir by Your grace
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And I am concerned about 'the faith of' my relatives after me, since my wife is barren. So grant me, by Your grace, an heir,
  - Mustafa Khattab
Lo! I fear my kinsfolk after me, since my wife is barren. Oh, give me from Thy presence a successor
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
"Now I fear (what) my relatives (and colleagues) (will do) after me: but my wife is barren: so give me an heir as from Thyself 2459
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

His was not merely a desire for a son. If it had been, he would have prayed much earlier in his life, when he was a young man. He was too full of true piety to put merely selfish things into his prayers. But here was a public need, in the service of the Lord.

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