Mary
19. Maryam
مريم
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19:23
فَأَجَاءَهَا
الْمَخَاضُ
إِلَى
جِذْعِ
النَّخْلَةِ
قَالَتْ
يَالَيْتَنِي
مِتُّ
قَبْلَ
هَذَا
وَكُنتُ
نَسْيًا
مَّنسِيًّا
fa-ʾajāʾahā l-makhāḍu ʾilā jidhʿi n-nakhlati qālat yā-laytanī mittu qabla hādhā wa-kuntu nasyan mansiyyan
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!"
— Abdullah Yusufali
The birth pangs brought her to the trunk of a date palm. She said, ‘I wish I had died before this and become a forgotten thing, beyond recall.’
