The Holy Quran 11:72 — Surah Hud

Arabic text

قَالَتْ يَـٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ ءَأَلِدُ وَأَنَا۠ عَجُوزٌ وَهَـٰذَا بَعْلِى شَيْخًا ۖ إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَشَىْءٌ عَجِيبٌ

Translation

She said (in astonishment), "Oh dear! Shall I bear a child when I am an old woman (of over 80 years) and my husband here is an old man (of over 100 years) ? This is indeed a strange event!"

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Here the word یٰوَیْلَتٰۤی “woe is me!” is like what women say in our idiom: “Oh, poor wretched me, shall I bear a child in such old age?” It is said that Sarah ﵂ was at that time ninety-nine years old, and Ibrahim ﵇ was a hundred years or even more.

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