Fahamalat-hu fantabathat bihi makanan qasiyya (surah Maryam: 22)

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

(19:22) Accordingly, Mary conceived the child, and with it she went away to a distant place. *16

Fahamalat hu fantabazat bihee makaanan qasiyyaa

*16) When she conceived the child, she left the Sanctuary and went to a distant place (Bethlehem) in order to escape the bitter criticism of the people. They would have said, "Look at the virgin daughter of the pious house of Aaron ! She has conceived a child and that, too, in the Sanctuary where she had retired for devotion!" Thus she temporarily succeeded in concealing the shame of the conception, but this event itself is a proof that prophet Jesus was born without a father. Had Mary been married and had a husband, she would not have left his or her parents' house by herself and chosen a distant place for the purpose of delivery.