He said: Even so; your Lord says: It is easy to Me: and that We may make him a sign to men and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter which has been decreed (۲۱)

So she conceived him; then withdrew herself with him to a remote place (۲۲)

And the throes (of childbirth) compelled her to betake herself to the trunk of a palm tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died before this, and had been a thing quite forgotten! (۲۳)

Then (the child) called out to her from beneath her: Grieve not, surely your Lord has made a stream to flow beneath you; (۲۴)

And shake towards you the trunk of the palmtree, it will drop on you fresh ripe dates: (۲۵)

So eat and drink and refresh the eye. Then if you see any mortal, say: Surely I have vowed a fast to the Beneficent Allah, so I shall not speak to any man today (۲۶)

And she came to her people with him, carrying him (with her). They said: O Marium! surely you have done a strange thing (۲۷)

O sister of Haroun! your father was not a bad man, nor, was your mother an unchaste woman (۲۸)

But she pointed to him. They said: How should we speak to one who was a child in the cradle? (۲۹)

He said: Surely I am a servant of Allah; He has given me the Book and made me a prophet; (۳۰)