Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Maryam, Ayah 5

Maryam · Ayah 5 · View Ayah
وَإِنِّى خِفْتُ ٱلْمَوَٰلِىَ مِن وَرَآءِى وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًۭا فَهَبْ لِى مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيًّۭا
And indeed, I fear the successors after me, and my wife has been barren, so give me from Yourself an heir

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Lo! I fear my kinsfolk) i.e. the inheritors (after me) i.e. there is no one after me to inherit my office and position, (since my wife) Hannah the sister of the mother of Mary the daughter of Amran ('Imran) the son of Matthan (Mathan) (is barren) and gives birth to no children. (Oh, give me from Thy presence) from You (a successor) a son,

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And truly I fear my kinsfolk namely those who will succeed me as closest after me in kinship such as my paternal cousins after me that is after my death I fear for the religion lest they forsake it as You have witnessed in the case of the Children of Israel in the way that they changed their religion and my wife is barren she does not conceive. So grant me from Yourself a successor a son

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