(19:1) Kaf, Ha, Ya, `Ayn, Sad. (19:2) [This is] a mention of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zechariah (19:3) When he called to his Lord a private supplication. (19:4) He said, "My Lord, indeed my bones have weakened, and my head has filled with white, and never have I been in my supplication to You, my Lord, unhappy. (19:5) And indeed, I fear the successors after me, and my wife has been barren, so give me from Yourself an heir (19:6) Who will inherit me and inherit from the family of Jacob. And make him, my Lord, pleasing [to You]." (19:7) [He was told], "O Zechariah, indeed We give you good tidings of a boy whose name will be John. We have not assigned to any before [this] name." (19:8) He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?" (19:9) [An angel] said, "Thus [it will be]; your Lord says, `It is easy for Me, for I created you before, while you were nothing.` " (19:10) [Zechariah] said, "My Lord, make for me a sign." He said, "Your sign is that you will not speak to the people for three nights, [being] sound." (19:11) So he came out to his people from the prayer chamber and signaled to them to exalt [Allah] in the morning and afternoon. (19:12) [Allah] said, "O John, take the Scripture with determination." And We gave him judgement [while yet] a boy (19:13) And affection from Us and purity, and he was fearing of Allah (19:14) And dutiful to his parents, and he was not a disobedient tyrant.
