the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the palm tree:she cried (in her anguish):"Ah !would I had died before this! would that I had been a thing
forgotten and out of sight.
but a voice cried to her from beneath the (palm -tree):(Grieve not!for thy lord Hath provided a rivulet beneath me,and shake towards thyself The trunk of the palm tree it will let fall .Fresh ripe dates upon thee. So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye.And if thou dost see any man, say,"I have vowed a fast to (GOD). Most Gracious,and this day will I enter into no talk With any human being"(1)
, At length she brought the (babe)to her people carrying him (in her arms). They said "O Mary! truly an amazing thing Hast thou brought"(2) 'O sister of Aaron!(3) Thy father was not A man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!" But she pointed to the babe. they said :"How can we Talk to one who is a child in the cradle.
(1)she was to decline that all conversation with man or woman ,on the plea of vow to God . the fast here does not mean abstinence literally from eating and drinking. she was just been advised to eat the dates and drink the stream.It means abstinence from the ordinary household meals ,and indeed intercourse generally.
(2)the amazement of the people knew no bounds. In any case they were ready to think the worst of her, as she had disappeared from her kin for some time.but she now she comes,shamelessly parading a babe in her arms!how she had disgraced the house of Aaron, the fountain of priesthood! we may suppose that the scene took place in tHe temple of Jerusalem in Nathreth.
(3)Aaron the brother of Moses was the first in the line of Israelite priesthood. Mary and her cousin Elisabeth (mother of Yahia)came of a priestly family , and were therefore"sister of Aaron" or daughters of"Imran"who is the father of Aaron.Mary reminded of her high lineage and the unexceptionable morals of her father and mother. How, they said,she had fallen, and disgraced the name of her propgenitors
but a voice cried to her from beneath the (palm -tree):(Grieve not!for thy lord Hath provided a rivulet beneath me,and shake towards thyself The trunk of the palm tree it will let fall .Fresh ripe dates upon thee. So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye.And if thou dost see any man, say,"I have vowed a fast to (GOD). Most Gracious,and this day will I enter into no talk With any human being"(1)
, At length she brought the (babe)to her people carrying him (in her arms). They said "O Mary! truly an amazing thing Hast thou brought"(2) 'O sister of Aaron!(3) Thy father was not A man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!" But she pointed to the babe. they said :"How can we Talk to one who is a child in the cradle.
(1)she was to decline that all conversation with man or woman ,on the plea of vow to God . the fast here does not mean abstinence literally from eating and drinking. she was just been advised to eat the dates and drink the stream.It means abstinence from the ordinary household meals ,and indeed intercourse generally.
(2)the amazement of the people knew no bounds. In any case they were ready to think the worst of her, as she had disappeared from her kin for some time.but she now she comes,shamelessly parading a babe in her arms!how she had disgraced the house of Aaron, the fountain of priesthood! we may suppose that the scene took place in tHe temple of Jerusalem in Nathreth.
(3)Aaron the brother of Moses was the first in the line of Israelite priesthood. Mary and her cousin Elisabeth (mother of Yahia)came of a priestly family , and were therefore"sister of Aaron" or daughters of"Imran"who is the father of Aaron.Mary reminded of her high lineage and the unexceptionable morals of her father and mother. How, they said,she had fallen, and disgraced the name of her propgenitors
