Page 64 - The Glad Tidings of the Messiah
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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.,
