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One of Giovanni Bellini's masterworks depicting Mary (1481) on
                    display in the Frari church.



                      she said: "My Lord! I have given birth to a girl"—and Allah
                      knew very well what she had given birth to, male and fe-
                      male are not the same—"and I have named her Mary and
                      placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the
                      accursed satan." (Surah Al 'Imran, 35-36)
                      Allah reveals that Mary's mother dedicated her to Allah,
                 "consecrated for His service." The Arabic word used here, i.e.,
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