He said, "My Lord, make for me a sign." He Said, "Your (3:41)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

Zakariya added: May I be given, O Allah, my Creator, a sign that would satisfy my reason. He was told What serves to indicate the fact shall be your inability to talk to people for three days. You shall be able to communicate with them only by making signs. Meanwhile praise Allah frequently and glorify Him and extol His glorious attributes in the evening and in the early morning

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(3:41) Zechariah said: 'O my Lord! Appoint a sign for me.' *41 The angel said: 'The sign for you shall be that you shall not speak to men for three days except by gesture. Remember your Lord and extol His glory by night and by day.' *42

He said, "My Lord, make for me a sign." He Said, "Your meaning

*41). Here the request is made for some specific sign to be given by means of which Zechariah would come to know in advance when the unusual incident of the birth of a child to a couple, where the male was old and the female both old and barren, would take place.
*42). The real purpose of this discourse is to disclose to the Christians the error of their belief in Jesus as God and as the son of God. The subject is introduced by mentioning the birth of John (peace be on him), anothermiraculous birth which had taken place only six months before the birth of the Messiah (peace be on him) and among his own relatives. God wants to make the Christians ask themselves why the miraculous birth of Jesus should make him God when the similarly miraculous birth of John did not make him so.
 

He said, "My Lord, make for me a sign." He Said, "Your meaning in Urdu

عرض کیا "مالک! پھر کوئی نشانی میرے لیے مقرر فرما دے" کہا، "نشانی یہ ہے کہ تم تین دن تک لوگوں سے اشارہ کے سوا کوئی بات چیت نہ کرو گے (یا نہ کرسکو گے) اِس دوران میں اپنے رب کو بہت یاد کرنا اور صبح و شام اس کی تسبیح کرتے رہنا"