Verse. 2279

١٩ - مَرْيَم

19 - Maryam

فَاَشَارَتْ اِلَيْہِ۝۰ۭ قَالُوْا كَيْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَنْ كَانَ فِي الْمَہْدِ صَبِيًّا۝۲۹
Faasharat ilayhi qaloo kayfa nukallimu man kana fee almahdi sabiyyan

English

Ahmed Ali

But she pointed towards him. "How can we talk to one," they said, "who is only an infant in the cradle?"

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (then she pointed to him) she pointed to jesus (pbuh) that they should speak to him. (they said: how can we tale to one who is in the cradle, a young boy) forty days old?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : thereat she pointed, them, to him, intimating [to them that they], ‘talk to him’. they said, ‘how can we talk to one who is, who happens to be, in the cradle, [still] a little child?’