She said, “I seek refuge with the All-Merciful (Allah) against you, if you are God-fearing.”

He said, “I am but a message-bearer of your Lord (sent) to give you a boy, purified.”

She said, “How shall I have a boy while no human has ever touched me, nor have I ever been unchaste?”

He said, “So it is; your Lord said, ‘It is easy for Me, and (We will do this) so that We make it a sign for people and a mercy from Us, and this is a matter already destined.’”

So she conceived him, and went in seclusion with him to a remote place.

Then the labour pains brought her to the trunk of a palm-tree. She said “O that I would have died before this, and would have been something gone, forgotten.”

Then he called her from beneath her: “Do not grieve; your Lord has placed a stream beneath you.

Shake the trunk of the palm-tree towards yourself and, it will drop upon you ripe fresh dates.

So eat, drink and cool your eyes. Then if you see any human being, say (to him), “I have vowed a fast (of silence) for the All-Merciful (Allah,) and therefore, I shall never speak to any human today.”

Then she came to her people carrying him (the baby). They said, “O Maryam you have committed something grave indeed.

O sister of Hārūn, neither your father was a man of evil nor was your mother unchaste.”

So, she pointed towards him (the baby). They said, “How shall we speak to someone who is still a child in the cradle?”

Spoke he (the baby), “Verily I am the servant of Allah. He has given me the Book, and made me a prophet,

and He has made me a blessed one wherever I be, and has enjoined Salāh and Zakāh upon me as long as I am alive,

and (He has made me) good to my mother, and he did not make me oppressive (or) ill-fated.

And peace is upon me the day I was born, the day I shall die, and the day I shall be raised alive again.”

That is ‘Īsā, the son of Maryam, to say the truth in which they (Christians) are disputing.