Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Maryam, Ayah 23

Maryam · Ayah 23 · View Ayah
فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَٰلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًۭا مَّنسِيًّۭا
And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

And the birth pangs the pains of childbirth brought her to the trunk of the palm-tree that she may support herself against it and then she gave birth the conception formation of the foetus and delivery all took place within one hour. She said ‘O yā is used to call attention to something would that I had died before this affair and become a forgotten thing beyond recall!’ a thing abandoned which no one knows or mentions.

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(And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree) a dry palm-tree. (She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this) this child; and it is said that this means: before this day (and had become a thing of naught, forgotten) an abandoned thing which is never mentioned! And it is also said that this means: a still born child.

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