2ذِكرُ رَحمَتِ رَبِّكَ عَبدَهُ زَكَرِيّاMuhammad AsadAN ACCOUNT of the grace which thy Sustainer bestowed upon His servant Zachariah:1Lit., "An account of thy Sustainer's grace upon...", etc. According to the account in the Gospels, not contradicted by the Qur'an, Zachariah's wife Elisabeth was a cousin of Mary, the mother of Jesus (Cf. Luke i, 36).