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Why did you mention his mother?
Because in Islaam,we have hold Jesus' mother to be very amazing, she is one of the women chosen above mankind, and a woman prefered by G-d and chosen for the miracle of Jesus' birth, in the Qu'ran we are told to reflect/remember the story of Mary, Maryam,
Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in the East.
To remember this, and when she screened herself away from others, and G-d sent an angel to her, and because of her piety she said:
"I seek refuge from thee to (Allah) Most Gracious: (come not near) if thou dost fear Allah."
That she didn't flirt or play around but remembered G-d, and imagine the fear that she had.
Also that
the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!"
The pain and fear and wishing of death from her, yet she remained in service to G-d. And to remember what must have been going through her mind, the fact that she was going to bring Jesus, a baby back to her people, her chastidy would be questioned, what would she say and do?
She was instructed:
And if thou dost see any man, say, 'I have vowed a fast to (Allah) Most Gracious, and this day will I enter into not talk with any human being'"
And so she returned and people questioned her and thought bad of her, saying things like,
They said: "O Mary! truly an amazing thing hast thou brought!
and
Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"
But she obeyed G-d and pointed to the baby, at which the people said "They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"" but then, our beloved Jesus, spoke from the cradle, defending his mother, with words of beauty that if a man said in his old age would be amazing yet these were words ofa baby,
He said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah: He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;
"And He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, and hath enjoined on me Prayer and Charity as long as I live;
"(He) hath made me kind to my mother, and not overbearing or miserable;
"So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)"!
So peace be upon Jesus, and Mary, and May Allah bring Jesus down to us again, ameen.