"How can I have a son, O Lord" he said, "when my wife is barren and I am old and decrepit?"
He submitted, “My Lord – how can I have a son whereas my wife is barren and I have reached infirmity due to old age?”
He said, 'O my Lord, how shall I have a son, seeing my wife is barren, and I have attained to the declining of old age?'
[Zachariah] exclaimed: "O my Sustainer! How can I have a son when my wife has always been barren and I have become utterly infirm through old age?"
He said: O my Lord! in what wise shall there be for me a boy, whereas my wife hath been barren, and surely have reached an age of extreme degree?
He said: "My Lord! How can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have reached the extreme old age."
He said, “My Lord, how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have become decrepit with old age?”
He said: "My Lord! How can I have a boy when my wife is barren and I have reached an extremely old age?"
He said: "My Lord! How can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have reached the extreme old age."
He said: My Lord! How can I have a son when my wife is barren and I have reached infirm old age?
He said, ‘My Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I am already advanced in age?’
'How shall I have a son, Lord' he asked, 'when my wife is barren, and I am advanced in years'
He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?"
He said, "Lord, how can I have a son? My wife is barren and I have reached an extremely old age".
He said: O my Lord! when shall I have a son, and my wife is barren, and I myself have reached indeed the extreme degree of old age?
Q<u>a</u>la rabbi ann<u>a</u> yakoonu lee ghul<u>a</u>mun wak<u>a</u>nati imraatee AA<u>a</u>qiran waqad balaghtu mina alkibari AAitiyy<u>a</u><b>n</b>
"My Lord!" [said Zachariah],  "How shall I have a son when my wife is barren and I have reached such extreme old age?"
He said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I have grown quite decrepit from old age?"
قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى غُلَٰمٌ وَكَانَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِى عَاقِرًا وَقَدْ بَلَغْتُ مِنَ ٱلْكِبَرِ عِتِيًّا
Zechariah said, amazed at the power of Allah: “How will a child be born to me when my wife is barren and I have reached the limit of old age and weakness of bones?”
Zechariah said, amazed at the power of Allah: “How will a child be born to me when my wife is barren and I have reached the limit of old age and weakness of bones?”
<p>The word عِتِيًّا is derived from which actually means 'unresponsive' or 'insensitive', and in the present context it means dryness of the bones.</p>
The word عِتِيًّا is derived from which actually means 'unresponsive' or 'insensitive', and in the present context it means dryness of the bones.
<h2 class="title">His amazement after the acceptance of His Supplication</h2><p>Zakariyya was amazed when his supplication was answered and he was given the good news of a son. He became extremely overjoyed and asked how this child would be born to him, and in what manner he would come. This was particularly amazing because his wife was an old woman who was barren and had not given birth to any children in her entire life. Even Zakariyya himself had become old and advanced in years, his bones had become feeble and thin, and he had no potent semen or vigor for sexual intercourse. The Answer of the Angel</p><div class="text_uthmani arabic">قَالَ</div><p>(He said:) That is, the angel, in his response to Zakariyya and his was amazement.</p><div class="text_uthmani arabic">كَذَلِكَ قَالَ رَبُّكَ هُوَ عَلَىَّ هَيِّنٌ</div><p>("Thus says your Lord: `It is easy for Me..."') Meaning the birth of the son will be from you and from this wife of yours and not from any other (woman).</p><div class="text_uthmani arabic">هَيِّنٌ</div><p>(easy) Meaning, it is simple and easy for Allah to do. Then he (the angel) mentioned to him that which is more amazing than what he was asking about. The angel said that the Lord said,</p><div class="text_uthmani arabic">وَقَدْ خَلَقْتُكَ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَمْ تَكُ شَيْئاً</div><p>(Certainly I have created you before, when you had been nothing!) This is similar to Allah's statement,</p><div class="text_uthmani arabic">هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الإِنسَـنِ حِينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْئاً مَّذْكُوراً </div><p>(Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was not a thing worth mentioning) 76:1</p>
His amazement after the acceptance of His SupplicationZakariyya was amazed when his supplication was answered and he was given the good news of a son. He became extremely overjoyed and asked how this child would be born to him, and in what manner he would come. This was particularly amazing because his wife was an old woman who was barren and had not given birth to any children in her entire life. Even Zakariyya himself had become old and advanced in years, his bones had become feeble and thin, and he had no potent semen or vigor for sexual intercourse. The Answer of the Angelقَالَ(He said:) That is, the angel, in his response to Zakariyya and his was amazement.كَذَلِكَ قَالَ رَبُّكَ هُوَ عَلَىَّ هَيِّنٌ("Thus says your Lord: `It is easy for Me..."') Meaning the birth of the son will be from you and from this wife of yours and not from any other (woman).هَيِّنٌ(easy) Meaning, it is simple and easy for Allah to do. Then he (the angel) mentioned to him that which is more amazing than what he was asking about. The angel said that the Lord said,وَقَدْ خَلَقْتُكَ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَمْ تَكُ شَيْئاً(Certainly I have created you before, when you had been nothing!) This is similar to Allah's statement,هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الإِنسَـنِ حِينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْئاً مَّذْكُوراً (Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was not a thing worth mentioning) 76:1