Surah Maryam ayat 23 Tafsir Quran 19:23

﴿فَأَجَاءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَا لَيْتَنِي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا﴾
[ مريم: 23]

19:23 And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

And the birth pangs the pains of childbirth brought her to the trunk of the palm-tree that she may support herself against it and then she gave birth the conception formation of the foetus and delivery all took place within one hour. She said ‘O yā is used to call attention to something would that I had died before this affair and become a forgotten thing beyond recall!’ a thing abandoned which no one knows or mentions.

Just to be confronted with the onset of labour, and there, the severe labour pains drove her to the nearby trunk of a palm-tree. Overwhelmed with fear mingled with grief she exclaimed: I wish, I had died long ago and were consigned to oblivion

The Conception and the Birth Allah, the Exalted, informs about Maryam that when Jibril had spoken to her about what Allah said, she accepted the decree of Allah.
Many scholars of the predecessors ( Salaf ) have mentioned that at this point the angel ( who was Jibril ) blew into the opening of the garment that she was wearing.
Then the breath descended until it entered into her vagina and she conceived the child by the leave of Allah.
Muhammad bin Ishaq said, "When she conceived him and filled her water jug ( at a well ), she returned ( to her people ).
After this, her menstrual bleeding ceased and she experienced what the pregnant woman experiences of sickness, hunger, change of color and there was even a change in the manner of her speech.
After this, no people came to visit any house like they did the house of Zakariyya.
The word spread among the Children of Israel and the people were saying, `Verily, her partner ( in fornication ) was Yusuf, because there was no one else in the temple with her except him.' So she hid herself from the people and placed a veil between herself and them.
No one saw her and she did not see anyone else." Allah said; فَأَجَآءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَى جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ ( And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date palm. ) This means that her pains of labor compelled her to go to the trunk of a date-palm tree that was at the place where she had secluded herself.
The scholars differed over its location.
As-Suddi said, "Her place of seclusion was to the east and that was where she would pray at the Sacred House of Jerusalem." Wahb bin Munabbih said, "She ran away and when she reached an area between Ash-Sham and Egypt, she was overcome by labor pains." In another narration from Wahb, he said, "This took place eight miles from the Sacred House of Jerusalem in a village that was known as Bayt Al-Lahm ( Bethlehem )." I say, there are Hadiths about the Isra' ( Night Journey of the Prophet ) that are reported by An-Nasa'i on the authority of Anas, and Al-Bayhaqi on the authority of Shadad bin Aws, that say that this took place at Bait Al-Lahm.
Allah knows best.
This is what is well known that the people all relate from each other.
The Christians have no doubt held that the place of this occurrence was Bethlehem and this is what all the people relate.
It has been related in a Hadith also, if the Hadith is authentic.
Allah says, informing about her, قَالَتْ يلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَـذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْياً مَّنسِيّاً ( She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!" ) In this is an evidence of the permissibility to wish for death when a calamity strikes.
She knew that she was going to be tested with the birth, the people would not assist her, and they would not believe her story.
After she was known as a devout worshipper among them, they now thought that she had become a fornicating whore.
She said, يلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَـذَا ( Would that I had died before this, ) She said this to mean before this situation. وَكُنتُ نَسْياً مَّنسِيّاً ( and I had been forgotten and out of sight! ) This means, "I wish I had not been created and I was nothing." This was mentioned by Ibn `Abbas.
Qatadah said, وَكُنتُ نَسْياً مَّنسِيّاً ( and I had been forgotten and out of sight! ) "This means something unknown, forgotten and no one knew who I was."

(19:23) Then the throes of childbirth urged her to take shelter under a date palm. There she began to cry, "Oh! would that I had died before this and sunk into oblivion. " *17

And the pains of childbirth drove her meaning

*17) The words " Would that... " show the extreme state of anxiety in which Mary found herself at the time.
She did not utter these words on account of the labour pains but due to the pangs of sorrow as to how she would conceal the child from her people.
The angel's words---" Grieve not at all "-explain why she had spoken these desperate words.
When a married girl is delivering her first baby, she might be dying with pains, but she is never so sorrowful and grieved.

 

The Conception and the Birth Allah, the Exalted, informs about Maryam that when Jibril had spoken to her about what Allah said, she accepted the decree of Allah.
Many scholars of the predecessors ( Salaf ) have mentioned that at this point the angel ( who was Jibril ) blew into the opening of the garment that she was wearing.
Then the breath descended until it entered into her vagina and she conceived the child by the leave of Allah.
Muhammad bin Ishaq said, "When she conceived him and filled her water jug ( at a well ), she returned ( to her people ).
After this, her menstrual bleeding ceased and she experienced what the pregnant woman experiences of sickness, hunger, change of color and there was even a change in the manner of her speech.
After this, no people came to visit any house like they did the house of Zakariyya.
The word spread among the Children of Israel and the people were saying, `Verily, her partner ( in fornication ) was Yusuf, because there was no one else in the temple with her except him.' So she hid herself from the people and placed a veil between herself and them.
No one saw her and she did not see anyone else." Allah said; فَأَجَآءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَى جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ ( And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date palm. ) This means that her pains of labor compelled her to go to the trunk of a date-palm tree that was at the place where she had secluded herself.
The scholars differed over its location.
As-Suddi said, "Her place of seclusion was to the east and that was where she would pray at the Sacred House of Jerusalem." Wahb bin Munabbih said, "She ran away and when she reached an area between Ash-Sham and Egypt, she was overcome by labor pains." In another narration from Wahb, he said, "This took place eight miles from the Sacred House of Jerusalem in a village that was known as Bayt Al-Lahm ( Bethlehem )." I say, there are Hadiths about the Isra' ( Night Journey of the Prophet ) that are reported by An-Nasa'i on the authority of Anas, and Al-Bayhaqi on the authority of Shadad bin Aws, that say that this took place at Bait Al-Lahm.
Allah knows best.
This is what is well known that the people all relate from each other.
The Christians have no doubt held that the place of this occurrence was Bethlehem and this is what all the people relate.
It has been related in a Hadith also, if the Hadith is authentic.
Allah says, informing about her, قَالَتْ يلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَـذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْياً مَّنسِيّاً ( She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!" ) In this is an evidence of the permissibility to wish for death when a calamity strikes.
She knew that she was going to be tested with the birth, the people would not assist her, and they would not believe her story.
After she was known as a devout worshipper among them, they now thought that she had become a fornicating whore.
She said, يلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَـذَا ( Would that I had died before this, ) She said this to mean before this situation. وَكُنتُ نَسْياً مَّنسِيّاً ( and I had been forgotten and out of sight! ) This means, "I wish I had not been created and I was nothing." This was mentioned by Ibn `Abbas.
Qatadah said, وَكُنتُ نَسْياً مَّنسِيّاً ( and I had been forgotten and out of sight! ) "This means something unknown, forgotten and no one knew who I was."

( And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree ) a dry palm-tree. ( She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this ) this child; and it is said that this means: before this day ( and had become a thing of naught, forgotten ) an abandoned thing which is never mentioned! And it is also said that this means: a still born child.

And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!"

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