The Holy Quran 19:20 — Surah Maryam

Arabic text

قَالَتْ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَـٰمٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِى بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ أَكُ بَغِيًّا

Translation

She responded, “How can I have a son when no man has touched me (I have never been married) and I have never been adulterous (How will I conceive a child when I have never had intimate relations with a man either lawfully or unlawfully)?"

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The astonishment of Maryam: Allah placed certainty in Maryam's heart that this was indeed an angel, but she was astonished: when a woman has no husband who could touch her in a lawful way, and is not unchaste so as to obtain a child in an unlawful way, how could she, living as a recluse, be given a pure child?

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