تفسير : (when he cried unto his lord) zachariah called his lord in the sanctuary (a cry in secret) in secret from his people,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : when (idh is semantically connected to rahma, ‘mercy’) he called out to his lord a call, entailing a supplication, in secret, in the middle of the night, because this [time of the night] invites a faster response [to one’s supplication].
