When Zacharias got the good news of having a son who would be chaste and purified, princely in behaviour and of the righteous folk, he could not contain his skin of happiness, and yet he was amazed that how could this strange phenomenon happen?! It was not an ordinary or natural son; that he and his wife were now very old and past the age of parenthood, His wife was barren, even when a young woman; So like ABRAHAM who asked God to show him how He raise the dead; Zacharias too, said: ``My Lord! How can I have a son, and old age has already come upon me and my wife is barren.''
The answer was no more than: ``Allah can easily accomplish whatever He wants.''