Verse. 2267

١٩ - مَرْيَم

19 - Maryam

فَاتَّخَذَتْ مِنْ دُوْنِہِمْ حِجَابًا۝۰ۣ۠ فَاَرْسَلْنَاۗ اِلَيْہَا رُوْحَنَا فَتَمَثَّلَ لَہَا بَشَرًا سَوِيًّا۝۱۷
Faittakhathat min doonihim hijaban faarsalna ilayha roohana fatamaththala laha basharan sawiyyan

English

Ahmed Ali

And took cover from them, We sent a spirit of Ours to her who appeared before her in the concrete form of a man.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and had chosen seclusion from them) so that she purifies herself after the end of her menses. (then we sent unto her our spirit) our messenger gabriel when she had finished purifying herself (and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man).

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : thus she veiled herself from them, she draped herself in a veil to conceal herself while she washed her hair [from lice], or [washed] her clothes, or cleansed herself from her menses; whereupon we sent to her our spirit, gabriel, and he assumed before her, after she donned her clothes, the likeness of a well-proportioned human, perfect in physical form.