Mary
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[19:9]
Answered [the angel]: "Thus it is; [but] thy Sustainer says, ‘This is easy for Me – even as I have created thee aforetime out of nothing.’"

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* v.9 : Lit., “when [or “although”] thou wert nothing.” This stress on God’s unlimited power to bring into being a new chain of causes and effects forms here, as in āl ‘Imrān, a preamble to the announcement, expressed in very similar terms, of the birth of Jesus (see verses 19 ff.).