Maryam , 23

Surah No: 19

Revealed: Mecca

Verse Text: فَأَجَاءهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَى جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَا لَيْتَنِي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا

Transliteration: Faajaaha almakhadu ila jithAAi alnnakhlati qalat ya laytanee mittu qabla hatha wakuntu nasyan mansiyyan

Translation (Tahereh Saffarzadeh): And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree [in order to lean against it] while saying: "If only I had died before this and had been forgotten." Translation (M.H. Shakir): And the throes (of childbirth) compelled her to betake herself to the trunk of a palm tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died before this, and had been a thing quite forgotten!

Subject: /Her Holiness Mary (P)/

Keywords: Maryam/Exemplary Women/Pregnancy/Issa/Jesus/Childbirth

Recitation

Tafsir-e-Nemouneh (Exemplary) in Brief