When she delivered, she said, “My Lord! I have given birth to a girl,”—and Allah fully knew what she had delivered—“and the male is not like the female.1 I have named her Mary, and I seek Your protection for her and her offspring from Satan, the accursed.”2
Explanation:
These two readings are complementary in meaning. It could be that this and the subsequent clause were uttered by Mary’s mother intending one meaning, and the divine commentary conveys another meaning: the elevated status of Mary [see al-Zamakhshari].