S:  She said:  Surely I fly for refuge from you to the Beneficent Allah, if you are one guarding (against evil).

019.019 Y:  He said:  “Nay, I am only a messenger from thy Lord, (to announce) to thee the gift of a holy son.”

P:  He said:  I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on thee a faultless son.

S:  He said:  I am only a messenger of your Lord:  That I will give you a pure boy.

019.020 Y:  She said:  “How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?”

P:  She said:  How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste?

S:  She said:  When shall I have a boy and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste?

019.021 Y:  He said:  “So (it will be):  Thy Lord saith, ’that is easy for Me:  and (We wish) to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a Mercy from Us’:  It is a matter (so) decreed.”

P:  He said:  So (it will be).  Thy Lord saith:  It is easy for Me.  And (it will be) that We may make of him a revelation for mankind and a mercy from Us, and it is a thing ordained.

S:  He said:  Even so; your Lord says:  It is easy to Me:  and that We may make him a sign to men and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter which has been decreed.

019.022 Y:  So she conceived him, and she retired with him to a remote place.

P:  And she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a far place.

S:  So she conceived him; then withdrew herself with him to a remote place.

019.023 Y:  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!”

P:  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!

S:  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!

019.024 Y:  But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree):  “Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;”

P:  Then (one) cried unto her from below her, saying:  Grieve not!  Thy Lord hath placed a rivulet beneath thee,

S:  Then (the child) called out to her from beneath her:  Grieve not, surely your Lord has made a stream to flow beneath you;

019.025 Y:  “And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree:  It will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.”

P:  And shake the trunk of the palm-tree toward thee, thou wilt cause ripe dates to fall upon thee.

S:  And shake towards you the trunk of the palmtree, it will drop on you fresh ripe dates: 

019.026 Y:  “So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye.  And if thou dost see any man, say, ’I have vowed a fast to (Allah) Most Gracious, and this day will I enter into not talk with any human being’”