سورة مريم، الآية ٢٠
قَالَتْ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِى بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ أَكُ بَغِيًّا ٢٠
qālat annā yakūnu lī ghulāmun walam yamsasnī basharun walam aku baghiyyan
She said, "How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"
Verse 20 of Surah Maryam (19:20), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 306 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
78 recitations by 72 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
Mary said surprisingly: “How can I have a child when neither a husband nor anyone else has come near me nor am I an adulteress that I should have a child?”
She said, “How can I have a son when no man has touched me, nor have I ever been unchaste?”
She said: "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?"
She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste?
She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"
She said: When shall I have a boy and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste?
She said, "However can I have a youth, and no mortal has touched me, neither have I been a prostitute?"
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَقَدْ بَلَغَنِىَ ٱلْكِبَرُ وَٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرٌ قَالَ كَذَٰلِكَ ٱللَّهُ يَفْعَلُ مَا يَشَآءُ
He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when I have reached old age and my wife is barren?" He [the angel] said, "Such is Allāh; He does what He wills."
قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًا وَقَدْ بَلَغْتُ مِنَ ٱلْكِبَرِ عِتِيًّا
He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?"
