Episode 20: Abraham's father - the devil worshiper

Surah 19: Mary (Maryam)

Zechariah and his son John

¹ Kaf. Ha. Ya. A'in. Sad.

^2-6 Zachariah cried out to his Lord, saying, “I'm an old man with grey hair. And my wife is barren. I need a son to succeed me.”

⁷ Someone said to him, “You're going to have a son named John.”

⁸ Zechariah said, “How's that going to happen? My wife is barren and I'm an old man.”

⁹ He said, "The Lord said it'd be easy for him to do."

¹⁰ Zechariah: "Give me some token."

He said, “The token is that you won't speak for three nights.”

¹² Sometime later, John was born.

Mary and the baby Jesus

¹⁷ We [Allah] sent Mary our spirit and it appeared as a perfect man.

¹⁹ He said to her, “You're going to get pregnant and deliver a faultless man.”

²⁰ She said, “How's that going to happen? No one has ever touched me?”

²¹ He said, “Your Lord said it'd be easy for him.”

²² And she conceived.

²³ The pain of childbirth drove Mary to the trunk of a palm tree.

She said, “I wish I were dead.”

^24-25 Someone from below said to her, “Don't be sad. Thy Lord has put a small river below you. Shake the trunk of the palm tree and ripe dates will fall.”

^27-28 After Jesus was born, Mary brought him to her family, who said to her, “Oh sister of Aaron, your father wasn't wicked, and your mother wasn't a harlot.”

²⁹ She pointed at the baby, and they said, “How can we talk to a baby in a cradle?”

^30-33 Then the baby Jesus said, “I'm the slave of Allah. He gave me the Scripture and has made me a prophet. When I die I'll be raised alive!"

Abraham's father - the devil worshiper

³⁵ It isn't fitting for Allah to take a son.

³⁷ Woe to disbelievers on the awful day.

⁴¹ Abraham was a saint and a prophet.

^42-45 He said to his father, “Why do you worship something that you can't see or hear? Don't serve the devil. I fear Allah will punish you for being a comrade of the devil.”

⁴⁶ His father said, “So you reject my gods? Get away from me or I'll stone you to death.”

⁴⁹ So Abraham left his father, and we [Allah] gave him Isaac and Jacob. We made them prophets, too.

Idris - the unknown prophet

⁵⁶ Idris was a saint and a prophet.

⁶⁷ We created man from nothing.

Allah's crouching assembly of devils

⁶⁸ We will assemble the devils, and bring them, crouching, around hell. ⁶⁹ Then we'll pluck out of every sect those who have most rebelled against us. ⁷⁰ We know best who should be burned.

How many generations have we destroyed!

⁷⁴ How many generations have we destroyed!

⁷⁵ We may allow those who are in error to live long lives so their punishment will seem even worse in their hour of doom. ⁷⁷ We will prolong the torment of those who disbelieve our revelations. ⁸³ We will set the devils on disbelievers to confound them with confusion. ⁸⁶ And drive the guilty into hell, like a weary herd of animals.

^88-89 Those who say that Allah has taken a son have uttered a disastrous thing.

⁹⁸ How many generations have we destroyed!