19:7“O Zechariah, We give you good news of a son, whose name is John, a name We have never given before.”

19:9He said, “It will be so, your Lord says, ‘it is easy for me, and I created you before, when you were nothing.’”

19:23The labor-pains came upon her, by the trunk of a palm-tree. She said, “I wish I had died before this, and been completely forgotten.”

19:64“We do not descend except by the command of your Lord. His is what is before us, and what is behind us, and what is between them. Your Lord is never forgetful.”

19:67Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?

19:74How many a generation have We destroyed before them, who surpassed them in riches and splendor?

19:98How many a generation have We destroyed before them? Can you feel a single one of them, or hear from them the slightest whisper?