In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Kaf ha ya ain sad. An account of your Lord's goodness to his servant Zacharias: He invoked Him in secret, saying: 'My bones are enfeebled, and head glows silver with age. Yet never, Lord, have i prayed to You in vain. I now fear my kinsmen who will succeed me, for my wife is barren. Grant me a son who will be my heir and an heir to the house of Jacob, and who will find grace in Your sight.

'Rejoice, Zacharias,' came the answer. 'You shall be given a son, and he shall be called John, a name no man has borne before him.' 'How shall i have a son, Lord,' asked Zacharias, 'whenow wife is barren, and I am well advanced in years?' He replied: 'Such is the will of your Lord. It shall be no difficult task for Me, for i brought you into being when you where nothing before.'

Correction sorry made a misstake it's is not whenow it is when my wife is barren...

'Lord,' said Zacharias, 'what sign will you give me concerning this event?' 'For three days and three nights,' He replied, 'you shall be bereft of speech, though otherwise sound in body.' Then Zacharias came out from the Shrine and exhorted his people to give glory to their Lord morning and evening. To John We said: 'Observe the Scriptures with a firm resolve.' We bestowed on him wisdom, grace,

And purity while yet a child, and he grew up a righteous man; honouring his father and mother, and neither arrogant nor rebellious. Blessed was he on the day he was born and the day of his death; and may peace be on him when he is raised to life. And you shall recount in the Book the story of Mary: how she left her people and betook herself to a solitary place to the east.

We sent to her Our spirit in the semblance of a Full-grown man. And when she saw him she said: 'May the Merciful defend me from you! If you fear the Lord, leave me and go your way.' 'I am the messenger of your Lord,' he replied, 'and have come to give you a holy son.' 'How shall i bear a child,' she answered, 'when I am a virgin, untouched by man?' 'Such is the will of your Lord,' he replied.

'That is no difficult thing for Him. He shall be a sign to mankind, says the Lord, and a blessing from Ourself. This is Our decree. Thereupon she concieved him, and retired to a far-off place. And whe felt the throes of childciti she lay down by the trunk of a palm-tree, crying: 'Oh, would that I had died and passed into oblivion! But a voice from below cried out to her: 'Do not despair. Your

'That is no difficult thing for Him. He shall be a sign to mankind, says the Lord, and a blessing from Ourself. This is Our decree. Thereupon she concieved him, and retired to a far-off place. And whe felt the throes of childciti she lay down by the trunk of a palm-tree, crying: 'Oh, would that I had died and passed into oblivion! But a voice from below cried out to her: 'Do not despair. Your

Correction sorry made an error it is supposed to say throes of childbirth... Bad wap sorry about the repeat.