7: "O Zakariya! We give you good news of a son: his name shall be Yahya: on none by that name We conferred distinction before."
8: He said: " O my Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I have grown quite decrepit from old age?"
9: He said: So: your Lord says, 'that is easy for Me: I did indeed create you before, when you had been nothing!"
12: " O Yahya! Take hold of the Book with might": and We gave him Wisdom as youth.
13: And piety as from Us, and purity; he was devout,
14: And kind to his parents, and he was not overbearing or rebellious.
Yahya baptised the Messiah at River Jordan, and so he is also called John the Baptist and Ma'amadan. He was the forerunner of Jesus. In accordance with his father's prayer, he renewed the Message of Allah, which has been corrupted and lost among the Israelites. The Arabic form of Yahya suggests "Life". The Hebrew form is Johanan, which means "Jehovah has been Gracious".
He was imprisoned by Herod, the tetrarch (provincial ruler under the Roman Empire), whom he had reproved for his sins, and eventually beheaded upon a rock (sakrah) in Jerusalem at the instigation of a woman with whom Herod was infatuated. It is maintained by some that John was not killed in Jerusalem, but instead in Damascus. And until this day, there remains a monument for him in the Umawi Mosque.
In his young life, Yahya was granted 1) wisdom by Allah, for he boldly denounced sin; 2) gentle pity and love for all Allah's creatures, for he moved among the humble and lowly, and despised "soft raiment"; and 3) purity of life, for he denounced the world and lived in the wilderness.
He was imprisoned by Herod, the tetrarch (provincial ruler under the Roman Empire), whom he had reproved for his sins, and eventually beheaded upon a rock (sakrah) in Jerusalem at the instigation of a woman with whom Herod was infatuated. It is maintained by some that John was not killed in Jerusalem, but instead in Damascus. And until this day, there remains a monument for him in the Umawi Mosque.
In his young life, Yahya was granted 1) wisdom by Allah, for he boldly denounced sin; 2) gentle pity and love for all Allah's creatures, for he moved among the humble and lowly, and despised "soft raiment"; and 3) purity of life, for he denounced the world and lived in the wilderness.
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