Monday, March 17, 2025

 17. Zakaria, the care taker of Bibi Marium, was inspired by seeing her receiving  sustenance directly from Allah, what invocation  he made to Allah?

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاتة      

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Answer:

“O Lord, bestow me a goodly offspring from You; verily, You are the hearer of prayer”.(3:38). 

Explanarion:

Zakariyya was so much convinced with extraordinary Mercy of Allahuthala, when he witnessed Bibi Maryam receiving all kinds of fruits directly in a miraculous nature. Knowing his weakness, he too supplicated with strong faith to Him to give him a virtuous, blessed and good son.

He invoked, "My Lord, indeed my bones have weakened, and my head has filled with white, and never have I been in my supplication to You, my Lord, unhappy [i.e., disappointed].

And indeed, I fear the successors after me, and my wife has been barren, so give me from Yourself an heir,

Who will inherit me and inherit from the family of Yaqub (AS). And make him, my Lord, pleasing [to You]." [19:4 to 6].

[He was told], "O Zakariyyah, indeed We give you good tidings of a boy whose name will be Yahya (AS). We have not assigned to any before [this] name." [19:7]

He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?" [19:8]

[An angel] said, "Thus [it will be]; your Lord says, 'It is easy for Me, for I created you before, while you were nothing.'" [19:9]

He said, "My Lord, make for me a sign." Allah said, "Your sign is that you will not speak to the people for three nights, [being] sound." [19:10]

So he came out to his people from the prayer chamber and signaled to them to exalt [Allah] in the morning and afternoon. [19:11].

Notice the way he supplicated for a son. He wanted a goodly son, who will please his Creator. Allah granted him Yahaya (AS) who was named uniquely by Himself. He was pure and compassionate with a wisdom from childhood. He made him to adhere to the  Scriptures with determination. He was God fearing, kind to his parents abd he was neither arrogant nor disobedient. [19:12 to 14]

Allah recorded in the Holy Quran about Yahaya (AS) as: "Peace be upon him the day he was born, and the day of his death, and the day he will be raised back to life!" [19:15] 

Like Ibrahim (AS) Zakariyya was gifted with the righteous son in his old age while his wife was barren.  Allah will give whomever He will, boys alone, or girls alone or both mixed or make childless! [42:49, 50] He has power over all things. It is easy for Him.

That is the power of prayer. The things that are not possible, as man thinks, are possible with the answering of prayer of a righteous servant by All capable Allah (عزوجلّ)

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