3.31 - Say: If you love Allah, then follow me, Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. 3.32 - Say: Obey Allah and the messenger. And if they turn away, then indeed, Allah does not love the unbelievers. 3.33 - Indeed, Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the people of Ibrahim and the people of Imran over the worlds. 3.34 - Descendants of some of them from among others. And Allah is Hearing, Knowing. 3.35 - When the wife of Imran said: My Lord! I have pledged to You what is in my belly, devoted (for You); so accept from me, indeed, You are the Hearing, the Knowing. 3.36 - But when she delivered her, she said: My Lord! I have delivered a female. And Allah is most knowing of what she delivered, and the male is not like the female. And I have named her Mariam, and I seek refuge for her and her descendants in You from the pelted devil. 3.37 - So her Lord accepted her with good acceptance and made her to grow in good growing, and put her into the care of Zakariah. Every time Zakariah entered her sanctuary, he found provision with her. He (Zakariah) said: O Mariam! From where did this come to you? She said: It is from Allah. Indeed, Allah provides for whom He wills without measure. 3.38 - That is when Zakariah called upon his Lord, saying: My Lord! Give me from Yourself good descendants; indeed, You are the Hearer of supplication. 3.39 - So the angels called him while he was standing in prayer in the sanctuary: Indeed, Allah gives you glad tidings of Yahya, verifying a word from Allah and honourable and chaste, and a prophet from among the righteous. 3.40 - He (Zakariah) said: My Lord! How there will be a young boy for me while old age has reached me and my wife is barren? He (the angel) said: Such is Allah, He does what He wills.
