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110 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE QUR'AN

When he called on his Lord in secret and said, 'My Lord, my bones
have lost their strength and my head is crowned with white, but in
calling on You, My Lord, I have never been disappointed. I fear my rel-
atives when I am gone and my wife is barren, so give me an heir from
You to be my inheritor and the inheritor of the family of Ya'qub, and
make him, my Lord, pleasing to You.' (Surah Maryam, 3-6)
Good News of Yahya is Given to the Prophet Zakariyya (as)
The angels called out to him while he was standing in prayer in the
Upper Room: 'Allah gives you the good news of Yahya, who will come
to confirm a Word from Allah, and will be a leader and a celibate, a
Prophet and one of the righteous.' (Surah Al 'Imran, 39)
'Zakariyya! We give you the good news of a boy named Yahya, a
name we have given to no one else before.' He said, 'My Lord! How
can I have a boy when my wife is barren and I have reached advanced
old age?' He said, 'It will be so! Your Lord says, "That is easy for me to
do. I created you before, when you were not anything."' He said, 'My
Lord, give me a Sign.' He said, 'Your Sign is not to speak to people for
three nights despite the fact that you are perfectly able to.' He came out
to his people from the Upper Room and gestured to them to glorify
Allah in the morning and the evening. 'Yahya, take hold of the Book
with vigour.' We gave him judgement while still a child, and tender-
ness and purity from Us – he was conscientious –and devotion to his
parents – he was not insolent or disobedient. Peace be upon him the
day he was born, and the day he dies, and the day he is raised up again
alive. (Surah Maryam, 7-15)
He said, 'My Lord, appoint a Sign for me.' He said, 'Your Sign is that
you will not speak to people for three days, except by gesture. Re-
member your Lord much and glorify Him in the evening and after
dawn.' (Surah Al 'Imran, 41)
Jibril Sent to Maryam (as) and Good News
of the Prophet 'Isa's (as) Birth
Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people to
an eastern place, and veiled herself from them. Then We sent Our
Spirit to her and it took on for her the form of a handsome, well-built