19* He said: "Nay, I am only a messenger from thy Lord, (to announce) to thee the gift of a pure son.  
| |20* She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"  
| |21* He said: "So (it will be): thy Lord saith, 'That is easy for Me: and (We wish) to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a Mercy from Us'. It is a matter (so) decreed."  
| |22* So she conceived him, and she retired with him to a remote place.  
| |23* And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree. She cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten!"  
| |24* But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree): "Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;  
| |25* "And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: It will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.  
| |26* "So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye. And if thou dost see any man, say, 'I have vowed a fast to (Allah) Most Gracious, and this day will I enter into no talk with any human being'"  
| |27* At length she brought the (babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms). They said: "O Mary! truly a strange thing has thou brought!  
| |28* "O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"  
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