When she was delivered, she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!"- and Allah knew best what she brought forth- "And no wise is the male Like the female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected."

Right graciously did her Lord accept her: He made her grow in purity and beauty: To the care of Zakariya was she assigned. Every time that he entered (Her) chamber to see her, He found her supplied with sustenance. He said: "O Mary! Whence (comes) this to you?" She said: "From Allah: for Allah Provides sustenance to whom He pleases without measure."

She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!

He will say: "Enter ye in the company of the peoples who passed away before you - men and jinns, - into the Fire." Every time a new people enters, it curses its sister-people (that went before), until they follow each other, all into the Fire. Saith the last about the first: "Our Lord! it is these that misled us: so give them a double penalty in the Fire." He will say: "Doubled for all" : but this ye do not understand.

When some of them said: "Why do ye preach to a people whom Allah will destroy or visit with a terrible punishment?"- said the preachers:" To discharge our duty to your Lord, and perchance they may fear Him."

She said: "Alas for me! shall I bear a child, seeing I am an old woman, and my husband here is an old man? That would indeed be a wonderful thing!"

So they both raced each other to the door, and she tore his shirt from the back: they both found her lord near the door. She said: "What is the (fitting) punishment for one who formed an evil design against thy wife, but prison or a grievous chastisement?"

She said: "There before you is the man about whom ye did blame me! I did seek to seduce him from his (true) self but he did firmly save himself guiltless!....and now, if he doth not my bidding, he shall certainly be cast into prison, and (what is more) be of the company of the vilest!"

Their messengers said: "Is there a doubt about Allah, The Creator of the heavens and the earth? It is He Who invites you, in order that He may forgive you your sins and give you respite for a term appointed!" They said: "Ah! ye are no more than human, like ourselves! Ye wish to turn us away from the (gods) our fathers used to worship: then bring us some clear authority."

Their messengers said to them: "True, we are human like yourselves, but Allah doth grant His grace to such of his servants as He pleases. It is not for us to bring you an authority except as Allah permits. And on Allah let all men of faith put their trust.

She said: "I seek refuge from thee to (Allah) Most Gracious: (come not near) if thou dost fear Allah."

She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"

And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!"

At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said: "O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it."

(The queen) said: "Ye chiefs! here is delivered to me - a letter worthy of respect.

She said: "Ye chiefs! advise me in (this) my affair: no affair have I decided except in your presence."

She said: "Kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and make the noblest of its people its meanest thus do they behave.

So when she arrived, she was asked, "Is this thy throne?" She said, "It was just like this; and knowledge was bestowed on us in advance of this, and we have submitted to Allah (in Islam)."

She was asked to enter the lofty Palace: but when she saw it, she thought it was a lake of water, and she (tucked up her skirts), uncovering her legs. He said: "This is but a palace paved smooth with slabs of glass." She said: "O my Lord! I have indeed wronged my soul: I do (now) submit (in Islam), with Solomon, to the Lord of the Worlds."

Afterwards one of the (damsels) came (back) to him, walking bashfully. She said: "My father invites thee that he may reward thee for having watered (our flocks) for us." So when he came to him and narrated the story, he said: "Fear thou not: (well) hast thou escaped from unjust people."

Said one of the (damsels): "O my (dear) father! engage him on wages: truly the best of men for thee to employ is the (man) who is strong and trusty"....

Behold! A party among them said: "Ye men of Yathrib! ye cannot stand (the attack)! therefore go back!" And a band of them ask for leave of the Prophet, saying, "Truly our houses are bare and exposed," though they were not exposed they intended nothing but to run away.

When the Prophet disclosed a matter in confidence to one of his consorts, and she then divulged it (to another), and Allah made it known to him, he confirmed part thereof and repudiated a part. Then when he told her thereof, she said, "Who told thee this? "He said, "He told me Who knows and is well-acquainted (with all things)."

And Allah sets forth, as an example to those who believe the wife of Pharaoh: Behold she said: "O my Lord! Build for me, in nearness to Thee, a mansion in the Garden, and save me from Pharaoh and his doings, and save me from those that do wrong";

当她生了一个女孩的时候，她说：“我确已生了一个女孩。”真主是知道她所生的孩子的。男孩不象女孩一样。”我确已把她叫做麦尔彦，求你保佑她和她的后裔，免受被弃绝的恶魔的搔扰。”

她的主接受了她，并使她健全的成长，且使宰凯里雅抚育她。宰凯里雅每次进内殿去看她，都发现她面前有给养，他说：“麦尔彦啊！你怎么会有这个呢？她说：“这是从我的主那里降下的。”真主必定无量地供给他的意欲的人。

她说：“我的主啊！任何人都没有和我接触过，我怎么会有儿子呢?”天神说：“真主要如此创造他的意欲的人。当他判决一件事情的时候，他只对那件事情说声‘有'，它就有了。”

真主将要说：“你们同精灵和人类中以前逝去的各民族一起进入火狱吧。”每当一个民族进火狱去，总要咒骂她的姐妹民族，直到他们统统到齐了。他们中后进的论及先进的说：“我们的主啊！这等人曾使我们迷误，求你使他们受加倍的火刑。”主说：“-个人都受加倍的火刑，但你们不知道。”

当时，他们中有一伙人说：“真主要加以毁灭，或加以严惩的民众，你们何必劝戒他们呢？”他们说：“因为求得你们主的原谅，而且希望他们能敬畏。”

她说：“咄咄怪事，我这个老太婆还会生孩子吗？这是我龙钟的丈夫。这确是一件奇事！”

他俩争先恐后地奔向大门。那时她已把他的衬衣从后面撕破了，他俩在大门口遇见她的丈夫，她说：“想奸污你的眷属者，他的报酬只有监禁或痛惩。”

她说：“这就是你们为他而责备我的那个人。我确已勾引他，但他洁身自好。如果他再不听从我的命令，他势必要坐牢，他势必成为自甘下贱的人。”

他们族中的使者说：“难道对于真主--天地的创造者--还有怀疑吗？他号召你们行善，以便他饶恕你们的罪过，并对你们缓刑到一个定期。”他们说：“你们只是像我们一样的凡人，你们欲阻止我们崇拜我们的祖先所崇拜的（偶像），你们昭示我们一个明证吧！”

他们族中的一个使者对他们说：“我们只是像你们一样的凡人，但真主施恩于他所意欲的仆人。我们不该昭示你们任何明证，除非奉真主的命令，信道者只信托真主。

她说：“我的确求庇于至仁主，免遭你的侵犯，如果你是敬畏的。”

她说：“任何人没有接触过我，我又不是失节的，我怎么会有儿子呢？”

阵痛迫使她来到一棵椰枣树旁，她说：“啊！但愿我以前死了，而且已变成被人遗忘的东西。”

等到他们来到蚁谷的时候，一个母蚁说：“蚂蚁们啊！快进自己的住处去，以免被素莱曼和他的大军不知不觉地践踏。”

她说：“臣仆们啊！我接到一封贵重的信。

她说：“臣仆们啊！关于我的事，望你们出个意见。我从来不决定任何一件事，直到你们在我面前。”

她说：“国王们每攻入一个城市，必破坏其中的建设，必使其中贵族变在贱民，他们这些人，也会这样做的。

当她来到的时候，有人说：“你的宝座象这样吗？”她说：“这好象是我的宝座。”在她之前，我们已获得知识，我们已是归顺的。

有人对她说：“你进那宫殿去吧！”当她看见那座宫殿的时候她以为宫殿里是一片汪洋，（就提起衣裳）露出她的两条小腿。他说：“这确是用玻璃造成的光滑的宫殿。”她说：“我的主啊！我确是自欺的，我（现在）跟着素莱曼归顺真主--全世界的主。”

那两个女子中的一个，羞涩地来对他说：“我的父亲的确要请你去，要酬谢你替我们饮羊的功劳。”当他来到他面前，并且告诉他自己的实情的时候，他说：“你不要畏惧，你已脱离不义的民众了。”

那两个女子中的一个说：“我的父亲啊！请你雇用他。你最好雇用这个又强壮又忠实的人。”

当时，他们中的一派人说：“叶斯里卜人啊，你们不必在这里逗留了。你们回家去吧！”他们中的一派人，向先知告假说：“我们的房屋，确是破烂的。”其实他们的房屋并不是破烂的，他们要想逃走。

当时，先知把一句话秘密地告欣他的一个妻子，她即转告了别人，而真主使先知知道他的秘密已被泄漏的时候，他使她认识一部分，而隐匿一部分。当他既以泄漏告诉她的时候，她说：“谁报告你这件事的？”他说：“是全知的、彻知的主告诉我的。”

真主以法老的妻子，为信道的人们的模范。当时，她曾说：“我的主啊！求你在你那里，为我建筑一所房子在乐园里。求你拯救我脱离法老，和他的罪行。求你拯救我脱离不义的民众。”