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Sura 19
Aya 23
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فَأَجاءَهَا المَخاضُ إِلىٰ جِذعِ النَّخلَةِ قالَت يا لَيتَني مِتُّ قَبلَ هٰذا وَكُنتُ نَسيًا مَنسِيًّا

(Muntakhab)

Just to be confronted with the onset of labour, and there, the severe labour pains drove her to the nearby trunk of a palm-tree. Overwhelmed with fear mingled with grief she exclaimed: "I wish, I had died long ago and were consigned to oblivion".