19. Surah Maryam, Verse 20
قَالَتْ اَنّٰى يَكُونُ ل۪ي غُلَامٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْن۪ي بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ اَكُ بَغِياًّ
Qalat anna yakoonu lee ghulamunwalam yamsasnee basharun walam aku baghiyya
She said, ‘How can I have a boy when no man has touched me and I am not an unchaste woman?’
- Progressive Muslims
She said: "How can I have a son when no man has touched me, nor do I desire such"
- Shabbir Ahmed
She said, "How can I have a son when no man has ever touched me? For, never have I been a loose woman!" (3:46), (19:28).
- Sam Gerrans
She said: “How can I have a lad, when no mortal has touched me, neither have I been unchaste?”
- The Monotheist Group
She said: "How can I have a son when no human being has been with me, nor have I desired such?"
- Edip-Layth
She said, "How can I have a son when no human has touched me, nor do I desire such?"
- Aisha Bewley
She said, ‘How can I have a boy when no man has touched me and I am not an unchaste woman?’
- Rashad Khalifa
She said, "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me; I have never been unchaste."
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
"How can I have a son, " she said, "when no man has touched me, nor am I sinful?"
- Sahih International
She said, "How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"
- Muhammad Asad
Said she: "How can I have a son when no man has ever touched me? - for, never have I been a loose woman!"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste?
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
"How shall I possibly procreate a son", asked Maryam, when, no man has ever touched me nor did I participate in immorality?"
- Bijan Moeinian
She said: "How can a chaste woman who has never been touched by a man conceive a child?
- Al-Hilali & Khan
She said: "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?"
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"
- Mustafa Khattab
She wondered, "How can I have a son when no man has ever touched me, nor am I unchaste?"
- Taqi Usmani
She said, "How shall I have a boy while no human has ever touched me, nor have I ever been unchaste?"
- Abdul Haleem
She said, ‘How can I have a son when no man has touched me? I have not been unchaste,’
- Arthur John Arberry
She said, 'How shall I have a son whom no mortal has touched, neither have I been unchaste?'
- E. Henry Palmer
Said she, 'How can I have a boy when no man has touched me, and when I am no harlot?'
- Hamid S. Aziz
Said he, "I am only a messenger of your Lord to bestow on you a pure son. "
- Mahmoud Ghali
She said, "However can I have a youth, and no mortal has touched me, neither have I been a prostitute?"
- George Sale
She said, how shall I have a son, seeing a man hath not touched me, and I am no harlot?
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
She said: "How shall I have a son, when no man has touched me, and I am not immodest (or indecent)?"
- Amatul Rahman Omar
She said, `How can I bear a son while no man (has married me and) has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste. '
- Ali Quli Qarai
She said, ‘How shall I have a child seeing that no human being has ever touched me, nor have I been unchaste?’