فَتَقَبَّلَهَا رَبُّهَا بِقَبُول حَسَن وَأَنبَتَهَا نَبَاتاً حَسَناً وَكَفَّلَهَا زَكَرِيّا كُلَّمَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا زَكَرِيَّا الِْمحْرَابَ وَجَدَ عِندَهَا رِزْقاً قَالَ يَـامَرْيَمُ أَنَّى لَكِ هَـذَا قَالَتْ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ اللهِ إِنَّ اللهَ يَرْزُقُ مَن يَشَآءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَاب(( 37 )) 37- HER LORD ACCEPTED HER WITH A GOOD ACCEPTANCE, [ 346 ] THE COMMENTARY VERSE NO.
37 The argument is continued here that God answered Anna's prayer, and Mary grew under God's special protection: ``Her Lord accepted her with a good acceptance, and grew her with a goodly growth.'' There is a fine note in this phrase that God's work is growing - As a seed contains some abilites and natural potentials, there is also in man's seed and soul various capacities, that exist in possibility and not in actuality, which the Gardener of the Universe grows them and cherishes them until they develope enough to bear fruit.
As Mary was brought up in the Temple, she moved to higher and higher steps of progress and dignity: ``Whenvere Zacharias visited her in the sanctuary, he found her supplied with sustenance!'' According to Islamic tradition the sustenance was out of seasonal fruits; that were brought to her by the angels from the PARADISE!
هُنَالِكَ دَعَا زَكَرِيَّا رَبَّهُ قَالَ رَبّ ِ هَبْ لِى مِن لَّدُنكَ ذُرّيَّةً طَيّبَةً إِنَّكَ سَمِيعُ الدُّعَآءِ(( 38 )) 38- THERE DID ZACHARIAS PRAY TO HIS LORD, SAYING: ``MY LORD! GRANT ME FROM YOURSELF AN OFFSPRING PURIFIED; THAT YOU HEAR PRAYER.
[ 347 ] فَنَادَتْهُ الْمَلائَكَةُ وَهُوَ قَآئمٌ يُصَلِّي فِي الِْمحْرَابِ أَنَّ اللهَ يُبَشِّرُكَ بِيَحْيَى مُصَدِّقاً بِكَلِمَة مِنَ اللهِ وَسَيّداً وَحَصُوراً وَنَبِيّاً مّن الصَّـالِحِينَ(( 39 )) 39- AND THE ANGELS CALLED UNTO HIM WHEN STANDING IN PRAYER IN THE SANCTUARY: ``ALLAH GIVES YOU THE GLAD-TIDING OF JOHN (YAHYA) WHO SHALL CONFIRM A WORD OF GOD. HE SHALL BE PRINCELY AND CHASTE, AND AN APOSTLE OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
قَالَ رَبّ ِ أَنَّى يَكُونُ لِى غُلامٌ وَقَدْ بَلَغَنَىِ الْكِبَرُ وَامْرَأَتِى عَاقِرٌ قَالَ كَذَلِكَ اللهُ يَفْعَلُ مَا يَشَآءُ(( 40 )) 40- HE SAID: MY LORD! HOW SHALL I HAVE A SON, AND OLD AGE HAS ALREADY COME UPON ME, AND MY WIFE IS BARREN. HE SAID: `EVEN SO, ALLAH WILL ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE WILLS. THE COMMENTARY VERSE NO. 38 Now the discourse is upon Zacharias, and his son John the Baptist. John's mother named Eizabeth was the sister to Mary's mother and both of them were barren.