19. Surah Maryam, Verse 8
He said: “My Lord: how will I have a lad when my wife is barren and I have reached extreme old age?”
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Aisha Bewley
He said, ‘My Lord! How can I have a boy when my wife is barren and I have reached advanced old age?’
Progressive Muslims
He said: "My Lord, how can I have a son when my wife is infertile, and I have reached a very old age"
Shabbir Ahmed
Zachariah exclaimed, "My Lord! How can I have a son when my wife is barren and I am already infirm with old age?"
Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation
He said: “My Lord: how will I have a lad when my wife is barren and I have reached extreme old age?”
The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation
He said: "My Lord, how can I have a son when my wife is infertile, and I have reached a very old age?"
Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament
He said, "My Lord, will I have a son despite my wife's sterility, and despite my old age?"
Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
"How can I have a son, O Lord" he said, "when my wife is barren and I am old and decrepit?"
Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)
He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?"
Muhammad Asad
exclaimed: "O my Sustainer! How can I have a son when my wife has always been barren and I have become utterly infirm through old age?"
Marmaduke Pickthall
He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when my wife is barren and I have reached infirm old age?
Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary
He said: "My Lord! How can I have a boy when my wife is barren and I have reached an extremely old age?"
Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab
He -Zakariya- exclaimed: "How shall I have a son when my wife has been, barren and I have been carried through the stealing steps of age to advanced life".
Bijan Moeinian
(Zechariah replied): "My Lord, how is it possible that an old man like me and a barren woman like my wife have a son?"
Al-Hilali & Khan
He said: "My Lord! How can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have reached the extreme old age."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
He said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I have grown quite decrepit from old age?"
Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran
He wondered, "My Lord! How can I have a son when my wife is barren, and I have become extremely old?"
Taqi Usmani
He Said, "My Lord, how shall there be a boy for me while my wife is barren, and I have reached the extreme of old age?"
Abdul Haleem
He said, ‘Lord, how can I have a son when my wife is barren, and I am old and frail?’
Arthur John Arberry
He said, 'O my Lord, how shall I have a son, seeing my wife is barren, and I have attained to the declining of old age?'
E. Henry Palmer
Said he, 'My Lord! how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have reached through old age to decrepitude?'
Hamid S. Aziz
(The answer came), "O Zachariah! Verily, We give you glad tidings of a son, whose name shall be John. None by that name have We distinguished before."
Mahmoud Ghali
He said, "Lord! However can I have a youth and my wife is barren, and I have already reached the decrepitude of old age?"
George Sale
Zacharias said, Lord, how shall I have a son, seeing my wife is barren, and I am now arrived at a great age, and am decrepit?
Syed Vickar Ahamed
He (Zakariyya) said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I have become quite weak from old age?"
Amatul Rahman Omar
He (- Zachariah) said, `My Lord! how shall I beget a son when my wife is barren and I have (already) reached the extreme (limit of) old age?'
Ali Quli Qarai
He said, ‘My Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I am already advanced in age?’
| # | word | meaning | root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | qāla | He said | قول |
| 2 | rabbi | My Lord | ربب |
| 3 | annā | How | اني |
| 4 | yakūnu | can | كون |
| 5 | lī | I have | |
| 6 | ghulāmun | a boy | غلم |
| 7 | wakānati | while is | كون |
| 8 | im'ra-atī | my wife | مرا |
| 9 | ʿāqiran | barren | عقر |
| 10 | waqad | and indeed | |
| 11 | balaghtu | I have reached | بلغ |
| 12 | mina | of | |
| 13 | l-kibari | the old age | كبر |
| 14 | ʿitiyyan | extreme | عتو |
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| # | word | meaning | root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | qāla | He said | قول |
| 2 | rabbi | My Lord | ربب |
| 3 | annā | How | اني |
| 4 | yakūnu | can | كون |
| 5 | lī | I have | |
| 6 | ghulāmun | a boy | غلم |
| 7 | wakānati | while is | كون |
| 8 | im'ra-atī | my wife | مرا |
| 9 | ʿāqiran | barren | عقر |
| 10 | waqad | and indeed | |
| 11 | balaghtu | I have reached | بلغ |
| 12 | mina | of | |
| 13 | l-kibari | the old age | كبر |
| 14 | ʿitiyyan | extreme | عتو |