(19:1) Kaf, Ha, Ya, `Ayn, Sad. (19:2) [This is] a mention of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zechariah (19:3) When he called to his Lord a private supplication. (19:4) He said, "My Lord, indeed my bones have weakened, and my head has filled with white, and never have I been in my supplication to You, my Lord, unhappy. (19:5) And indeed, I fear the successors after me, and my wife has been barren, so give me from Yourself an heir (19:6) Who will inherit me and inherit from the family of Jacob. And make him, my Lord, pleasing [to You]." (19:7) [He was told], "O Zechariah, indeed We give you good tidings of a boy whose name will be John. We have not assigned to any before [this] name."
