Discuss the life of īsa b. Maryam from the Islamic point of view.
Explanation
Mary (: مَرْيَم, Maryam), the of (), holds a singularly exalted place in as the only woman named in the , which refers to her seventy times and explicitly identifies her as the greatest of all women, stating, with reference to the angelic saluation during the , "O Mary, God has chosen you, and purified you; He has chosen you above all the women of creation." In the Quran, her story is related in three (19, 21, 23) and four (3, 4, 5, 66), and the nineteenth chapter () of the scripture, titled "Mary" (), is named after her. The Quran refers to Mary more often than the .
Mary and Jesus in a
According to the Quran, divine grace surrounded Mary from birth, and, as a young woman, she received a message from God through the that God had chosen her, purified her, and had preferred her above all "the women of the worlds." This event, according to the same narrative, was followed by the of a child who was to be miraculously conceived by her through the intervention of the while she was still , whose name would be and who would be the "anointed one," the . As such, orthodox Islamic belief "has upheld the tenet of the ," and although the classical Islamic thinkers never dwelt on the question of the at any great length, it was generally agreed in traditional Islam that Mary remained a virgin throughout her life, with the Quran's mention of Mary's purification “from the touch of men” implying perpetual virginity in the minds of many of the most prominent Islamic fathers.