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Maryam 19:33

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وَٱلسَّلَـٰمُ عَلَىَّ يَوْمَ وُلِدتُّ وَيَوْمَ أَمُوتُ وَيَوْمَ أُبْعَثُ حَيًّا

And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I am raised alive."

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Mufti Muhammad Shafi

وَبَرًّ‌ا بِوَالِدَتِي"and (He has made me) good to my mother." - 19:32.

Here only the mother is mentioned and not both the parents. Hence it is implied that his birth was a miracle, being without a father. Such adiscourse coming from an infant was a miracle by itself to prove his miraculous birth.

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