Tafheem-ul-Quran (En) - Maryam : 17
فَاتَّخَذَتْ مِنْ دُوْنِهِمْ حِجَابًا١۪۫ فَاَرْسَلْنَاۤ اِلَیْهَا رُوْحَنَا فَتَمَثَّلَ لَهَا بَشَرًا سَوِیًّا
and drew a curtain, screening herself from people 14 whereupon We sent to her Our spirit and he appeared to her as a well-shaped man.
14. The Sanctuary where she had retired for devotion was an eastern chamber in the Temple, and as was customary she had hung a curtain to conceal herself from the people. It cannot be Nazareth as some people have wrongly taken it to be, because Nazareth is to the north of Jerusalem.
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