So she conceived him [Isa], and she withdrew with him to a remote place. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, “Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten.” But he [Isa] called her from below her, “Do not grieve; your Lord has provided beneath you a stream. And shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree; it will drop upon you ripe, fresh dates. So eat and drink and cool your eyes. And if you see from among humanity anyone, say, ‘Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Merciful a fast, so I will not speak today to [any] human.'”