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Z strength and my head is crowned with white, but
in calling on You, My Lord, I have never been
ZABUR (PSALMS) disappointed. I fear my relatives when I am gone
and my wife is barren, so give me an heir from
We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh
You to be my inheritor and the inheritor of the
and the Prophets who came after him. And We
family of Ya‘qub, and make him, my Lord, pleas-
revealed to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and
ing to You.’ ‘Zakariyya! We give you the good
Ya‘qub and the Tribes, and ‘Isa and Ayyub and
news of a boy named Yahya, a name we have
Yunus and Harun and Sulayman. And We gave
given to no one else before.’ He said, ‘My Lord!
Dawud the Zabur. (4:163)
How can I have a boy when my wife is barren
My Lord knows best everyone in the heavens and
and I have reached advanced old age?’ He said,
earth. We favoured some of the Prophets over
‘It will be so! Your Lord says, "That is easy for me
others. And We gave Dawud the Zabur. (17:55)
to do. I created you before, when you were not
We wrote down in the Zabur, after the Reminder
anything."’ He said, ‘My Lord, give me a Sign.’
came: ‘It is My servants who are righteous who
He said, ‘Your Sign is not to speak to people for
will inherit the earth.’ (21:105)
three nights despite the fact that you are perfectly
ZAKAH (SEE ALMS) able to.’ He came out to his people from the
Upper Room and gestured to them to glorify
ZAKARIYYA (AS) Allah in the morning and the evening. (19:2-11)
And Zakariyya when he called out to his Lord,
Her Lord accepted her with approval and made
‘My Lord, do not leave me on my own, though
her grow in health and beauty. And Zakariyya
You are the Best of Inheritors.’ (21:89)
became her guardian. Every time Zakariyya vis-
ited her in the Upper Room, he found food with
ZAQQUM
her. He said, ‘Maryam, how did you come by
Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of
this?’ She said, ‘It is from Allah. Allah provides for
Zaqqum which We have made to be an ordeal
whoever He wills without any reckoning.’ Then
for the wrongdoers? (37:62-63)
and there Zakariyya called on his Lord and said,
It is a tree that emerges in the depths of the
‘O Lord, grant me by Your favour an upright
Blazing Fire. (37:64)
child. You are the Hearer of Prayer.’ The angels
Its fruits are just like the heads of Satans. (37:65)
called out to him while he was standing in prayer
They will eat from it and fill their bellies with it.
in the Upper Room: ‘Allah gives you the good
(37:66)
news of Yahya, who will come to confirm a
The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked,
Word from Allah, and will be a leader and a celi-
seething in the belly like molten brass, as boiling
bate, a Prophet and one of the righteous.’ He
water bubbles and seethes. (44:43-46)
said, ‘My Lord, how can I possibly have a son
Then you, you misguided, you deniers will eat
when I have reached old age and my wife is bar-
from the tree of Zaqqum, filling your stomachs
ren?’ He said, ‘It will be so. Allah does whatever
with it. (56:51-53)
He wills.’ He said, ‘My Lord, appoint a Sign for
me.’ He said, ‘Your Sign is that you will not speak
ZAYD
to people for three days, except by gesture.
When you said to him whom Allah has blessed
Remember your Lord much and glorify Him in
and you yourself have greatly favoured, ‘Keep
the evening and after dawn.’ (3:37-41)
your wife to yourself and have fear of Allah,’
And Zakariyya, Yahya, ‘Isa and Ilyas. All of them
while concealing something in yourself which
were among the righteous. (6:85)
Allah wished to bring to light, you were fearing
Remembering your Lord’s mercy to His servant
people when Allah has more right to your fear.
Zakariyya, when he called on his Lord in secret
Then when Zayd divorced her We married her to
and said, ‘My Lord, my bones have lost their
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