Mary
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[19:5]
"Now, behold, I am afraid of [what] my kinsfolk [will do] after I am gone, for my wife has always been barren. Bestow, then, upon me, out of Thy grace, the gift of a successor

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* v.5 : Lit., “after me.” He evidently anticipated that his kinsfolk – who, like himself, were priests attached to the Temple – would be morally too weak to fulfil their duties with dignity and conviction (Rāzī), and thus, perhaps, unable to safeguard the future of Mary, whose guardian he was (cf. the first paragraph of 3:37).