And she brought him [namely the child] unto her people, carrying him. They said, O Mary, thou hast done a strange thing. O sister of Aaron, (_he was a righteous man; and the meaning is, O thou who art like him in chastity_,[331]) thy father was not a man of wickedness, nor was thy mother a harlot. _Then whence gottest thou this child?_—And she made a sign _to them_, [pointing] towards him, [namely the child, as though she would say,] _Speak ye unto him._ They said, How shall we speak unto him who is in the cradle, an infant? He [however] said, Verily I am the servant of God:[332] He hath given me the book _of the Gospel_, and hath appointed me a prophet; and He hath made me blessed wherever I shall be, and hath commanded me to observe prayer and give alms as long as I shall live, and _hath made me_ dutiful to my mother, and hath not made me proud [nor] wicked. And peace _from God_ [was] on me on the day when I was born, and [will be] on the day when I shall die, and on the day when I shall be raised to life.—This [was] Jesus the son of Mary. _I have spoken_ the saying of truth, concerning which they (_namely the Christians_) doubt, _saying that Jesus is the son of God_. It is not [meet] for God to get a son. Extolled be His purity _from that_ [imputation]! When He decreeth a thing _that He desireth to bring into existence_, He only saith unto it, Be,—and it is: _and thus He created Jesus the son of Mary without a father_.—And _say_, Verily God is my Lord and your Lord: therefore worship ye Him: this is a right way, _leading to Paradise_. But the sects have differed among themselves; _that is, the Christians have differed concerning Jesus, as to whether he be the son of God, or a deity with Him, or the third of three_. And woe unto them who have disbelieved _in that which hath been stated, or in other matters_, on account of the assembly of a great day, _the day of resurrection, and its terrors_. How will they hear, and how _will they_ see, on the day when they shall come unto Us _in the world to come_! But the offenders to-day (_that is, in the present world_) are in a manifest error: _they are deaf, so that they hear not the truth; and blind, so that they see it not_. And do thou, _O Moḥammad_, warn them (_namely the unbelievers of Mekkeh_) of the day of sighing (_the day of resurrection, when the evil-doer shall sigh for his having neglected to do good in the present world_), when the command _for their punishment_ shall be fulfilled, while they (_in the present world_) are in a state of heedlessness _with respect to it_, and while they believe not _therein_. Verily We shall inherit the earth and whomsoever are upon it (_the heedless and others; they being destroyed_); and unto Us shall they be brought back _to be recompensed_. (xix. 16-41.)