Mary
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[19:23]
And [when] the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree, she exclaimed: "Oh, would that I had died ere this, and had become a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"

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* v.23 : I.e., compelling her to cling to it for support: thus stressing the natural, normal circumstances of this childbirth, attended – as is the case with all women – by severe labour pains.