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The Qur'ân, ed. Palmer (SBE9): XIX. The Chapter of ...

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This is a passage from Surah Maryam (Chapter 19) of the Qur'an, drawn from E.H. Palmer's 1880 English translation published in the Sacred Books of the East series. The passage recounts the stories of several prophets: Zachariah's prayer for a son and God's announcement of John the Baptist's birth; Mary's miraculous conception of Jesus and the infant Jesus speaking from the cradle; Abraham's rejection of his father's idol worship; and brief mentions of Moses, Ishmael, and Idris (Enoch). A defining theological claim runs throughout: Jesus is affirmed as a prophet and servant of God, not the son of God — the Surah explicitly and emphatically rejects the Christian doctrine of divine sonship as a "monstrous thing" bordering on blasphemy. The passage closes with warnings of divine judgment, descriptions of Paradise for the righteous, and condemnation of those who ascribe partners or children to God. Palmer's Victorian scholarly apparatus includes footnotes comparing Qur'anic accounts to biblical parallels (e.g., Luke 1:61 on the name John) and noting traditional Islamic interpretive disputes.

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