“He [the angel] said: “Nay, I am only a messenger from your Lord, (to announce) to you the gift of a holy son.”
She [Mary] said, “How shall I have a son seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?”
He said: “Even so: Your Lord says, ‘That is easy for Me: and We wish to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a Mercy from Us’: It is a matter decreed.”
– Qur’an, Sura Maryam (19):19-21
Do you still want to burn a Qur’an?
On the night of the 21st of Ramadan, after Imam Ali (peace be upon him) died, Imam al-Hasan (peace be upon him) rose and gave a sermon:
“Tonight you have killed a man on a night in which the Qur’an came down, a night in which Jesus son of Mary (peace be upon him) was taken up, and a night in which Joshua the son of Nun, the champion of Moses (peace be upon him), was killed. By God, none of those who were before him are ahead of him and none of those who will come after him will overtake him. By God, if the Prophet (may Allah bless him and his progeny) sent him on a raid, Gabriel was at his right hand and Michael at his left. By God, he did not leave (at his death) gold or silver except for 800 or 700 dirhams, which he set aside for a servant woman.”
