{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_019_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_019_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_019_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pick/019.htm","summary":"This is Surah 19 (Maryam/Mary) from the Qur'an, presented in M.M. Pickthall's early 20th-century English translation, one of the most respected classical renderings by a native English-speaking Muslim. The chapter narrates the miraculous births of John the Baptist (to the elderly, barren-wife Zachariah) and Jesus (to the virgin Mary), then surveys a series of prophets \u2014 Abraham, Moses, Ishmael, and Idris \u2014 emphasizing their obedience to God and rejection of idolatry. A central theological argument runs throughout: Jesus is affirmed as a prophet and servant of God, but the chapter explicitly and emphatically rejects the Christian doctrine of divine sonship, declaring it a cosmic blasphemy so grave it nearly tears the heavens apart. The surah closes with eschatological warnings \u2014 vivid depictions of Hell, Judgment Day, and the fate of disbelievers \u2014 contrasted with the rewards awaiting the devout. Pickthall's translation is notably formal and archaizing (using \"thee/thou\" throughout), aiming for a Qur'anic solemnity, and his rendering of the title \"the Beneficent\" for *Al-Rahman* is a distinctive interpretive choice that recurs as a structural motif across the chapter.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 19. Maryam: Mary","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2133}