مَرْيَمَ

Surah Maryam, ayah 23

Mary · Meccan · 98 ayahs

19:23

فَاَجَٓاءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ اِلٰى جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِۚ قَالَتْ یَا لَیْتَنٖی مِتُّ قَبْلَ هٰذَا وَكُنْتُ نَسْیًا مَنْسِیًّا

Faajaaha almakhadu ila jithAAi alnnakhlati qalat ya laytanee mittu qabla hatha wakuntu nasyan mansiyyan

Translations

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

Saheeh International

And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become a thing of naught, forgotten

Marmaduke Pickthall