Rowwad Translation Center — 307

19:26 Eat and drink, and be glad. And if you see any human being, say, ‘I have vowed silence[1] to the Most Compassionate, so I will not talk to any human being today.’”

19:27 Then she came to her people carrying him. They said, “O Mary, you have committed something monstrous!

19:28 O sister of Aaron,[1] your father was not a man of evil, nor was your mother unchaste.”

19:29 Thereupon she pointed to him. They said, “How can we talk to someone who is still a baby in the cradle?”

19:30 Jesus said, “I am a slave of Allah. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet.

19:31 He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and has enjoined upon me prayer and zakah as long as I am alive,

19:32 and has made me dutiful to my mother, and has not made me an oppressor or disobedient.

19:33 Peace is upon me the day I was born, the day I will die and the day I will be resurrected.”

19:34 Such was Jesus, son of Mary – a word of truth about which they are in doubt.

19:35 It is not befitting Allah to beget a son. Glory be to Him[1]! When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, “Be,” and it is.

19:36 [Jesus said], “Indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. This is a straight path.”

19:37 But the factions differed among themselves[1] [about him]. So woe to the disbelievers from the scene of a momentous Day!

19:38 How well they will hear and see on the Day they come to Us! But today the wrongdoers are clearly misguided.