Maryam
A Remembrance of Benevolence
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
Kaf. Ha. Ya. ʿAyn. Ṣad.
كهيعص
A remembrance of your Guardian's benevolence toward His obedient one Zakariya, when he called upon his Guardian with a hidden call,
ذكر رحمت ربك عبده زكريا اذ نادى ربه نداء خفيا
he said: "My Guardian, the bone has grown frail within me, the head has blazed white, and never, in calling upon You, my Guardian, have I been wretched.
قال رب اني وهن العظم مني واشتعل الراس شيبا ولم اكن بدعايك رب شقيا
I have feared for my kin after me, and my wife is barren. So bestow on me, from Yourself, a protector who will inherit from me and inherit from the clan of Yaacoub,
واني خفت المولي من وراءي وكانت امراتي عاقرا فهب لي من لدنك وليا يرثني ويرث من ءال يعقوب
and make him, my Guardian, well-pleasing."
واجعله رب رضيا
"O Zakariya, We indeed give you glad tidings of a boy: his attribute is Yahya, for whom We have made, before him, no one who shares this attribute."
يزكريا انا نبشرك بغلم اسمه يحيى لم نجعل له من قبل سميا
He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when my wife is barren and I have reached, in old age, utter decrepitude?"
قال رب انى يكون لي غلم وكانت امراتي عاقرا وقد بلغت من الكبر عتيا
He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me, and I created you before, when you were nothing."
قال كذلك قال ربك هو على هين وقد خلقتك من قبل ولم تك شيا
He said: "My Guardian, appoint for me a sign."
قال رب اجعل لي ءاية
He said: "Your sign is that you shall not speak to men for three complete nights."
قال ءايتك الا تكلم الناس ثلث ليال سويا
He came out to his people, from the oratory, and signaled to them: "Glorify at morning and evening."
فخرج على قومه من المحراب فاوحى اليهم ان سبحوا بكرة وعشيا
"O Yahya, take the Scripture with strength."
ييحيى خذ الكتب بقوة
And We gave him judgment, while he was a young child,
وءاتينه الحكم صبيا
and a tenderness from Us, and a purity;
وحنانا من لدنا وزكوة
and he guarded himself.
وكان تقيا
Virtuous toward his parents, he was neither tyrannical nor disobedient.
وبرا بولديه ولم يكن جبارا عصيا
And peace be upon him the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day he is raised alive.
وسلم عليه يوم ولد ويوم يموت ويوم يبعث حيا
And mention, in the Scripture, Maryam, when she secluded herself from her people in a place toward the east and took, apart from them, a veil.
واذكر في الكتب مريم اذ انتبذت من اهلها مكانا شرقيا فاتخذت من دونهم حجابا
So We sent to her Our Influx, who took before her the form of a well-formed human.
فارسلنا اليها روحنا فتمثل لها بشرا سويا
She said: "I indeed take refuge from you with the All-Benevolent! If you guard yourself…"
قالت اني اعوذ بالرحمن منك ان كنت تقيا
He said: "I am only the messenger of your Guardian, that He may bestow on you a pure boy."
قال انما انا رسول ربك لاهب لك غلما زكيا
She said: "How shall I have a boy, when no human has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"
قالت انى يكون لي غلم ولم يمسسني بشر ولم اك بغيا
He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me.
قال كذلك قال ربك هو على هين
And We shall make him a sign for mankind and a benevolence from Us.
ولنجعله ءاية للناس ورحمة منا
It is a matter already decreed."
وكان امرا مقضيا
She conceived him, then secluded herself with him in a far-off place.
فحملته فانتبذت به مكانا قصيا
The pangs of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the palm tree. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and been a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"
فاجاءها المخاض الى جذع النخلة قالت يليتني مت قبل هذا وكنت نسيا منسيا
He called to her from below her: "Do not grieve! Your Guardian has set beneath you a couch.
فنادىها من تحتها الا تحزني قد جعل ربك تحتك سريا
And shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree: it will let fresh, ripe dates tumble upon you.
وهزي اليك بجذع النخلة تسقط عليك رطبا جنيا
So eat, drink, and let your eye find rest.
فكلي واشربي وقري عينا
If you see anyone among the humans, say: "I have vowed to the All-Benevolent an abstention; so I shall not speak today to any human."
فاما ترين من البشر احدا فقولي اني نذرت للرحمن صوما فلن اكلم اليوم انسيا
Then she came with him to her people, carrying him.
فاتت به قومها تحمله
They said: "O Maryam, you have come to a monstrous thing!
قالوا يمريم لقد جيت شيا فريا
O sister of Harun, your father was not a man of evil, nor your mother unchaste."
ياخت هرون ما كان ابوك امرا سوء وما كانت امك بغيا
So she pointed to him.
فاشارت اليه
They said: "How shall we speak to one who is a young child in the cradle?"
قالوا كيف نكلم من كان في المهد صبيا
The child said: "I am indeed the obedient one of God. He has given me the Scripture and made me an informant; He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and enjoined upon me the Contact and pure liberality as long as I live, and virtue toward my mother.
قال اني عبد الله ءاتىني الكتب وجعلني نبيا وجعلني مباركا اين ما كنت واوصني بالصلوة والزكوة ما دمت حيا وبرا بولدتي
He has not made me tyrannical or wretched.
ولم يجعلني جبارا شقيا
And peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I am raised alive."
والسلم على يوم ولدت ويوم اموت ويوم ابعث حيا
Such is Issa, son of Maryam —
ذلك عيسى ابن مريم
the saying of truth, about which they contend.
قول الحق الذي فيه يمترون
It is not for God to take a child.
ما كان لله ان يتخذ من ولد
Glory be to Him!
سبحنه
When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: "Be,"
اذا قضى امرا فانما يقول له كن
and it is.
فيكون
God is indeed my Guardian and your Guardian: so obey Him.
وان الله ربي وربكم فاعبدوه
This is a straight path.
هذا صرط مستقيم
But the parties diverged among themselves.
فاختلف الاحزاب من بينهم
So woe to those who disown, at the witnessing of an immense Day!
فويل للذين كفروا من مشهد يوم عظيم
How well they will hear, and how clearly they will see, the Day they come to Us!
اسمع بهم وابصر يوم ياتوننا
Yet the wrongdoers, today, are in manifest error.
لكن الظلمون اليوم في ضلل مبين
And warn them of the Day of Desolation, when the matter is decided, while they are heedless and do not believe.
وانذرهم يوم الحسرة اذ قضي الامر وهم في غفلة وهم لا يومنون
It is We who will inherit the earth and all who are upon it,
انا نحن نرث الارض ومن عليها
and to Us they will be returned.
والينا يرجعون
And mention, in the Scripture, Ibrahim: he was a veracious man, an informant, when he said to his father: "O my father, why do you obey what neither hears nor sees clearly and avails you nothing?
واذكر في الكتب ابرهيم انه كان صديقا نبيا اذ قال لابيه يابت لم تعبد ما لا يسمع ولا يبصر ولا يغني عنك شيا
O my father, there has indeed come to me of knowledge what has not come to you; so follow me, I will guide you along an even path.
يابت اني قد جاءني من العلم ما لم ياتك فاتبعني اهدك صرطا سويا
O my father, do not obey the Diverter:
يابت لا تعبد الشيطن
the Diverter is disobedient toward the All-Benevolent.
ان الشيطن كان للرحمن عصيا
O my father, I fear that a punishment from the All-Benevolent will touch you, and you become an ally of the Diverter."
يابت اني اخاف ان يمسك عذاب من الرحمن فتكون للشيطن وليا
His father said: "Are you falling away from my deities, O Ibrahim?
قال اراغب انت عن ءالهتي
If you do not desist, I will banish you! Keep away from me for a long time."
يابرهيم لين لم تنته لارجمنك واهجرني مليا
Ibrahim said: "Peace be upon you. I will ask my Guardian's forgiveness for you: He has ever been attentive to me. I draw apart from you and from what you invoke besides God, and I invoke my Guardian; it may be that, in invoking my Guardian, I shall not be wretched."
قال سلم عليك ساستغفر لك ربي انه كان بي حفيا واعتزلكم وما تدعون من دون الله وادعوا ربي عسى الا اكون بدعاء ربي شقيا
When he had drawn apart from them and from what they obeyed besides God, We bestowed on him Ishaq and Yaacoub,
فلما اعتزلهم وما يعبدون من دون الله وهبنا له اسحق ويعقوب
and each We made an informant.
وكلا جعلنا نبيا
And We bestowed on them of Our benevolence, and gave them a lofty tongue of veracity.
ووهبنا لهم من رحمتنا وجعلنا لهم لسان صدق عليا
And mention, in the Scripture, Moussa: he was devoted exclusively to God, and he was a messenger, an informant.
واذكر في الكتب موسى انه كان مخلصا وكان رسولا نبيا
We called him from the right side of the Mount, and drew him near in private converse.
وندينه من جانب الطور الايمن وقربنه نجيا
And We bestowed on him, out of Our benevolence, his brother Harun, an informant.
ووهبنا له من رحمتنا اخاه هرون نبيا
And mention, in the Scripture, Isma'il: he was true to his promise, and he was a messenger, an informant. He would enjoin upon his people the Contact and pure liberality,
واذكر في الكتب اسمعيل انه كان صادق الوعد وكان رسولا نبيا وكان يامر اهله بالصلوة والزكوة
and he was, with his Guardian, well-pleasing.
وكان عند ربه مرضيا
And mention, in the Scripture, Idris: he was a veracious man, an informant.
واذكر في الكتب ادريس انه كان صديقا نبيا
And We elevated him to a lofty station.
ورفعنه مكانا عليا
Those are the ones God has favored among the informants: of the descendants of Adam, of those We carried with Nuh, of the descendants of Ibrahim and of Israel, and of those We guided and elected.
اوليك الذين انعم الله عليهم من النبين من ذرية ءادم وممن حملنا مع نوح ومن ذرية ابرهيم واسرءيل وممن هدينا واجتبينا
When the signs of the All-Benevolent were recited to them, they fell down prostrate, weeping.
اذا تتلى عليهم ءايت الرحمن خروا سجدا وبكيا
Then there succeeded them a generation who let the Contact dissipate and followed desires: so they will meet with errancy — except one who repents, believes, and does a sound deed; those will enter the Garden and be wronged in nothing: the Gardens of permanence which the All-Benevolent has promised His obedient ones, in what escapes their presence.
فخلف من بعدهم خلف اضاعوا الصلوة واتبعوا الشهوت فسوف يلقون غيا الا من تاب وءامن وعمل صلحا فاوليك يدخلون الجنة ولا يظلمون شيا جنت عدن التي وعد الرحمن عباده بالغيب
His promise is indeed to be fulfilled.
انه كان وعده ماتيا
They will hear in it no idle talk,
لا يسمعون فيها لغوا
only: "Peace!"
الا سلما
And they will have their provision there, morning and evening.
ولهم رزقهم فيها بكرة وعشيا
Such is the Garden that We shall give as inheritance, among Our obedient ones, to whoever guarded himself.
تلك الجنة التي نورث من عبادنا من كان تقيا
"We do not descend except by the command of your Guardian.
وما نتنزل الا بامر ربك
To Him belongs what is before us, what is behind us, and what is between the two.
له ما بين ايدينا وما خلفنا وما بين ذلك
And your Guardian is never forgetful."
وما كان ربك نسيا
The Guardian of the heavens, the earth, and what is between them: so obey Him, and be constant in His obedience.
رب السموت والارض وما بينهما فاعبده واصطبر لعبدته
Do you know anyone who shares His attribute?
هل تعلم له سميا
And the human being says: "When I am dead, shall I really be brought forth alive?"
ويقول الانسن اءذا ما مت لسوف اخرج حيا
Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?
اولا يذكر الانسن انا خلقنه من قبل ولم يك شيا
By your Guardian, We will surely gather them, along with the Diverters; then We will surely bring them around Jahannam, on their knees.
فوربك لنحشرنهم والشيطين ثم لنحضرنهم حول جهنم جثيا
Then We will pluck out, from every faction, those most insolent toward the All-Benevolent.
ثم لننزعن من كل شيعة ايهم اشد على الرحمن عتيا
Then it is We who know best who most deserves to burn in it.
ثم لنحن اعلم بالذين هم اولى بها صليا
There is none of you but will arrive at it: that is, for your Guardian, an irrevocable sentence.
وان منكم الا واردها كان على ربك حتما مقضيا
Then We will save those who guarded themselves, and forsake the wrongdoers in it, on their knees.
ثم ننجي الذين اتقوا ونذر الظلمين فيها جثيا
And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who disown say to those who believe: "Which of the two fractions has the better standing and the finer circle?"
واذا تتلى عليهم ءايتنا بينت قال الذين كفروا للذين ءامنوا اى الفريقين خير مقاما واحسن نديا
How many a generation before them We have annihilated, finer in possessions and in looks!
وكم اهلكنا قبلهم من قرن هم احسن اثثا ورءيا
Say: "Whoever is in error, let the All-Benevolent extend for him a long respite!"
قل من كان في الضللة فليمدد له الرحمن مدا
until, seeing what they are promised — either the punishment or the Hour — they know who has the worst place and is weaker in army.
حتى اذا راوا ما يوعدون اما العذاب واما الساعة فسيعلمون من هو شر مكانا واضعف جندا
And God increases in guidance those who let themselves be guided.
ويزيد الله الذين اهتدوا هدى
And the enduring, sound deeds are, with your Guardian, better in requital and better in what they yield.
والبقيت الصلحت خير عند ربك ثوابا وخير مردا
Have you seen the one who disowned Our signs and said: "I will surely be given goods and children"? Has he pierced what escapes the senses, or taken a pact with the All-Benevolent? By no means!
افرءيت الذي كفر بايتنا وقال لاوتين مالا وولدا اطلع الغيب ام اتخذ عند الرحمن عهدا كلا
We will record what he says and extend for him the punishment, at length.
سنكتب ما يقول ونمد له من العذاب مدا
And We will inherit what he says, and he will come to Us, alone.
ونرثه ما يقول وياتينا فردا
They have taken, besides God, deities, that they might be a might for them. By no means!
واتخذوا من دون الله ءالهة ليكونوا لهم عزا كلا
They will disown their obedience and stand against them as adversaries.
سيكفرون بعبادتهم ويكونون عليهم ضدا
Have you not seen that We have loosed the Diverters upon those who disown, inflaming them relentlessly?
الم تر انا ارسلنا الشيطين على الكفرين توزهم ازا
So do not be hasty against them:
فلا تعجل عليهم
We only number for them, one by one.
انما نعد لهم عدا
The Day We gather those who guarded themselves to the All-Benevolent, as a delegation, and drive the severed to Jahannam, to arrive there.
يوم نحشر المتقين الى الرحمن وفدا ونسوق المجرمين الى جهنم وردا
They will possess no intercession, except one who has taken a pact with the All-Benevolent.
لا يملكون الشفعة الا من اتخذ عند الرحمن عهدا
And they have said: "The All-Benevolent has taken a child."
وقالوا اتخذ الرحمن ولدا
You have put forth an enormity! The heavens are close to being rent asunder by it, the earth to splitting open, and the mountains to falling in rubble — that they have ascribed a child to the All-Benevolent.
لقد جيتم شيا ادا تكاد السموت يتفطرن منه وتنشق الارض وتخر الجبال هدا ان دعوا للرحمن ولدا
It does not befit the All-Benevolent to take a child.
وما ينبغي للرحمن ان يتخذ ولدا
There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes to the All-Benevolent as an obedient one.
ان كل من في السموت والارض الا ءاتي الرحمن عبدا
He has enumerated them and numbered them, one by one.
لقد احصىهم وعدهم عدا
And each of them will come to Him, on the Day of Appearance, alone.
وكلهم ءاتيه يوم القيمة فردا
To those who have believed and done sound deeds, the All-Benevolent will indeed grant affection.
ان الذين ءامنوا وعملوا الصلحت سيجعل لهم الرحمن ودا
We have made it easy on your tongue only so that you may give glad tidings by it to those who guard themselves and warn by it a fierce people.
فانما يسرنه بلسانك لتبشر به المتقين وتنذر به قوما لدا
How many a generation before them We have annihilated! Do you perceive a single one of them, or hear from them the faintest murmur?
وكم اهلكنا قبلهم من قرن هل تحس منهم من احد او تسمع لهم ركزا