سورة مَریَم
Surah Maryam 19:23
Mary · Verse 23 of 98
فَأَجَاءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَا لَيْتَنِي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنْتُ نَسْيًا مَنْسِيًّا
Abdul Mannan Omar
(At the time of the delivery of the child) the throes of child birth drove her to the trunk of the palm-tree. She said, `Oh! would that I had become unconscious before this and had become a thing gone and forgotten.´
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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 and out of sight!
Ahmed Ali
The birth pangs led her to the trunk of a date-palm tree. "Would that I had died before this," she said, "and become a thing forgotten, unremembered."
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Ali Unal
And the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had become a thing forgotten, completely forgotten!"
Daryabadi
Then the birth-pangs drave her to the trunk of a palm- tree; she said: would that had died afore this and become forgotten, lost in oblivion!
Faridul Haque
Then the pangs of childbirth brought her to the base of the palm-tree; she said, "Oh, if only had I died before this and had become forgotten, unremembered."
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died before this, and had been a thing quite forgotten!
Maulvi Sher Ali
And the pains of child-birth drove her unto the trunk of a palm-tree. She said, `O, would that I had died before this and had become a thing quite forgotten !
Muhammad Asad
And [when] the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree, she exclaimed: "Oh, would that I had died ere this, and had become a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"
Muhammad Musin Khan
And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!"
Muhammad Pickthall
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!
Muhammad Sarwar
When she started to experience (the pain of) of childbirth labor, by the trunk of a palm tree in sadness she said, "Would that I had died long before and passed into oblivion."
Muhammed ali Shakir
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!
Rashad Khalifa
The birth process came to her by the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "(I am so ashamed;) I wish I were dead before this happened, and completely forgotten."
Shabbir Ahmed
And when labor pains drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree, she exclaimed, “Ah, I wish I had died before this, and had become a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!”
Commentary 19:23 Mary gave birth to Jesus under the same ordinary, natural circumstances that all women experience while giving birth to a child. “Oh! Would that I had…
فَأَجَاءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَا لَيْتَنِي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَـٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا
19:23 Mary gave birth to Jesus under the same ordinary, natural circumstances that all women experience while giving birth to a child. “Oh! Would that I had become unconscious before this and had become a thing gone and forgotten” were words uttered under extreme pain of birth. The throes of childbirth compelled her to cling to a date tree for support and to utter these words. This verse is intended to tell us that the birth of Jesus was just like any other birth of a human child, not under extraordinary circumstances to justify him as a son of God. The words, “The throes of childbirth compelled her to cling to a date tree for support…” are also symbolic of the support sought by Mary against the spiritual ignorance and opposition by the Jewish leaders and the complaints she makes because of the pain she felt from the opposition of her own people. According to some Sufi saints, these words also stand as symbols for the spiritual reformers in Islam (Mujaddids) who act as a kind of support for believers at the time when the religion chosen by Allâh begins to suffer from the attacks of its enemies.