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Is the saying of "Zabra' al-Kahina": "By the quivering Tablet, and the deepening night, and the shining morn, and the striking star, and the pouring cloud, verily the trees of the valley creep stealthily, and burn crooked fangs, and verily the rocks of the mountain threaten sorrow, from which you will find no escape; so I met a people bewildered and drunken," similar to the saying of Allah Almighty, even though she said this before Islam?

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The resemblance drawn between the words of the soothsayer and the Quran could not originate from an eloquent Arab. The Quran is miraculous in its wording and style, in its meaning and legislation, in its tidings, and in its influence and guidance. Through it, Allah brought a nation out of darkness into light. If this speech resembled the Quran, the eloquent Arabs would not have been incapable of opposing it. Furthermore, the words of "Zabra' al-Kahinah" are transmitted from storytellers and chroniclers with an extremely weak chain of narration. They come through Hisham ibn Muhammad from Abu Mikhnaf, from elders among the scholars of Quda'a. Abu Mikhnaf and Hisham are weak and abandoned (as narrators). The issue of honoring women in Islam has been addressed in previous fatwas.

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