opinion.telegraph.co.uk - Peace to all people ". . . when she [Mary] felt the throes of childbirth, she lay down by the trunk of a palm tree, crying: 'Oh, would that I had died before this, and passed into oblivion!'
"But a voice from below cried out to her: 'Do not despair. Your Lord has provided a brook that runs at your feet, and if you shake the trunk of the palm tree it will drop fresh ripe dates in your lap. Therefore eat and drink and rejoice . . .' "
These words come from the Book of Mary (or Maryam) in the Koran.
"But a voice from below cried out to her: 'Do not despair. Your Lord has provided a brook that runs at your feet, and if you shake the trunk of the palm tree it will drop fresh ripe dates in your lap. Therefore eat and drink and rejoice . . .' "
These words come from the Book of Mary (or Maryam) in the Koran.
