فَأَجَآءَهَا
ٱلْمَخَاضُ
إِلَىٰ
جِذْعِ
ٱلنَّخْلَةِ
قَالَتْ
يَـٰلَيْتَنِى
مِتُّ
قَبْلَ
هَـٰذَا
وَكُنتُ
نَسْيًۭا
مَّنسِيًّۭا
٢٣
and, when the pains of childbirth drove her to [cling to] the trunk of a palm tree, she exclaimed, ‘I wish I had been dead and forgotten long before all this!’
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem