The Prophets
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[21:89]
AND [thus did We deliver] Zachariah when he cried out unto his Sustainer: "O my Sustainer! Leave me not childless! But [even if Thou grant me no bodily heir, I know that] Thou wilt remain when all else has ceased to be!

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* v.89 : Lit., “Thou art the best of inheritors” – a phrase explained in note 22 on 15:23. The words interpolated by me between brackets correspond to Zamakhsharī’s and Rāzī’s interpretation of this phrase. For more detailed references to Zachariah, father of John the Baptist, see 3:37 ff. and 19:2 ff.