THE BRIGHT NOTION: WHO IS JESUS, SON OF MARY

'ISA BNU MARYAM

Surah Maryam, Verse 16:

And make mention of Mary in the Scripture, when she had withdrawn from her people to a chamber looking East,

Verse 17:

And had chosen seclusion from them. Then We sent unto her Our Spirit and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man.

Verse 18:

She said: Lo! I seek refuge in the Beneficent One from thee, if thou art Allah-fearing.

Verse 19:

He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on thee a faultless son.

Verse 20:

She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste?

Verse 21:

He said: So (it will be). Thy Lord saith: It is easy for Me. And (it will be) that We may make of him a revelation for mankind and a mercy from Us, and it is a thing ordained.

Verse 22:

And she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a far place.

Verse 23:

And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become a thing of naught, forgotten!

Verse 24:

Then (one) cried unto her from below her, saying: Grieve not! Thy Lord hath placed a rivulet beneath thee,

Verse 25:

And shake the trunk of the palm-tree toward thee, thou wilt cause ripe dates to fall upon thee.

Verse 26:

So eat and drink and be consoled. And if thou meetest any mortal, say: Lo! I have vowed a fast unto the Beneficent, and may not speak this day to any mortal.

Verse 27:

Then she brought him to her own folk, carrying him. They said: O Mary! Thou hast come with an amazing thing.

Verse 28:

O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.

Verse 29:

Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy?

Verse 30:

He spake: Lo! I am the slave of Allah. He hath given me the Scripture and hath appointed me a Prophet,

Verse 31:

And hath made me blessed wheresoever I may be, and hath enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I remain alive,

Verse 32:

And (hath made me) dutiful toward her who bore me, and hath not made me arrogant, unblest.

Verse 33:

Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!

Verse 34:

Such was Jesus, son of Mary: (this is) a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt.

Verse 35:

It befitteth not (the Majesty of) Allah that He should take unto Himself a son. Glory be to Him! When He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.

Verse 36:

And lo! Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So serve Him. That is the right path.

Verse 37:

The sects among them differ: but woe unto the disbelievers from the meeting of an awful Day.

Verse 38:

See and hear them on the Day they come unto Us! yet the evil-doers are to-day in error manifest.

Verse 39:

And warn them of the Day of anguish when the case hath been decided. Now they are in a state of carelessness, and they believe not.

Verse 40:

Lo! We, only We, inherit the earth and all who are thereon, and unto Us they are returned.