مَرْيَم : ٥

  • وَإِنِّي And indeed, I
  • خِفۡتُ [I] fear
  • ٱلۡمَوَٰلِيَ the successors
  • مِن after me
  • وَرَآءِي after me
  • وَكَانَتِ and is
  • ٱمۡرَأَتِي my wife
  • عَاقِرٗا barren
  • فَهَبۡ So give
  • لِي [to] me
  • مِن from
  • لَّدُنكَ Yourself
  • وَلِيّٗا an heir
And indeed, I fear the successors1 after me, and my wife has been barren, so give me from Yourself an heir
Footnotes
1 - Those relatives from the father's side who would inherit religious authority.
And truly I fear my kinsfolk, namely, those who will succeed me [as closest after me] in kinship, such as [my] paternal cousins, after me, that is, after my death, [I fear] for the religion, lest they forsake it, as You have witnessed in the case of the Israelites, in the way that they changed [their] religion, and my wife is barren, she does not conceive. So grant me from Yourself a successor, a son,