Surah Maryam (مريم) • Mary

Quran 19:23

19:23

فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَـٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا

fa-ajāahā l-makhāḍu ilā jidh'ʿi l-nakhlati qālat yālaytanī mittu qabla hādhā wakuntu nasyan mansiyyan

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, when the pains of childbirth drove her to [cling to] the trunk of a palm tree, she exclaimed, ‘I wish I had been dead and forgotten long before all this!’

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!"

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

Juz 16Page 306meccan

Word by Word

فَأَجَآءَهَاfa-ajāahāThen drove her
ٱلْمَخَاضُl-makhāḍuthe pains of childbirth
إِلَىٰilāto
جِذْعِjidh'ʿi(the) trunk
ٱلنَّخْلَةِl-nakhlati(of) the date-palm
قَالَتْqālatShe said
يَـٰلَيْتَنِىyālaytanīO! I wish
مِتُّmittuI (had) died
قَبْلَqablabefore
هَـٰذَاhādhāthis
وَكُنتُwakuntuand I was
نَسْيًۭاnasyan(in) oblivion
مَّنسِيًّۭاmansiyyanforgotten