(Remember) Zachariah when he called to his Lord: "Do not leave me alone (and childless), for you are the best of givers."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and zachariah) and mention, o muhammad, zachariah, (when he cried unto) when he prayed to (his lord: my lord! leave me not childless) alone without any helper, (though thou art the best of inheritors) though you are the best of helpers.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and, mention, zachariah (zakariyyā, is substituted by [the following, idh nādā rabbahu …]) when he cried out to his lord, saying: ‘my lord, do not leave me without an heir, without a son to inherit from me, and you are the best of inheritors’, the one that endures after all of your creation has perished.
