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Surah 3. Aal-Imran, Ayah 42

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وَإِذْ قَالَتِ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ يَـٰمَرْيَمُ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ٱصْطَفَىٰكِ وَطَهَّرَكِ وَٱصْطَفَىٰكِ عَلَىٰ نِسَآءِ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
Wai th q a lati almal a ikatu y a maryamu inna All a ha i st af a ki wa t ahharaki wa i st af a ki AAal a nis a i alAA a lameen a
AND LO! The angels said: "O Mary! Behold, God has elected thee and made thee pure, and raised thee above all the women of the world.
  - Mohammad Asad
There came the time when angels said: "O Maryem! Surely Allah has exalted you, purified you, and preferred you for His service over all the women of the worlds.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And 'remember' when the angels said, 'O Mary! Surely Allah has selected you, purified you, and chosen you over all women of the world.
  - Mustafa Khattab
And when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah hath chosen thee and made thee pure, and hath preferred thee above (all) the women of creation.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! Allah hath chosen thee and purified thee; chosen thee above the women of all nations. 382
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Mary the mother of Jesus was unique, in that she gave birth to a son by a special miracle, without the intervention of the customary physical means. This of course does not mean that she was more than human, any more than that her son was more than human. She had as much need to pray to God as anyone else. The Christian dogma, in all sects except the Unitarian, holds that Jesus was God and the son of God. The worship of Mary became the practice in the Roman Catholic Church, which calls Mary the Mother of God. This seems to have been endorsed by the Council of Ephesus in 431, in the century before Muhammad was born to sweep way the corruptions of the Church of Christ. For 'alamin as meaning all nations, see iii. 96, n. 423.

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