فَنَادَىٰهَا مِن تَحْتِهَآ أَلَّا تَحْزَنِى قَدْ جَعَلَ رَبُّكِ تَحْتَكِ سَرِيًّا
Fanaadaahaa min tahtihaan allaa tahzanee qad ja'ala Rabbuki tahtaki sariyyaa
but a voice cried to her from below, ‘Do not worry: your Lord has provided a stream at your feet
A voice called to her from below her: "Do not grieve — your Lord has placed a stream beneath you."
Comfort arrives as water. Maryam has just wished herself dead and forgotten, and what answers her is a stream, then dates, then instructions about her own silence; the vindication she needs comes later and not from her. Readers have long differed over who calls to her, the angel or the newborn, and the two established recitations of the phrase keep the question open.