{"Then say, 'Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Gracious a fast, so I will not speak today to any human being.'"} 1
And in the story of Zakariya, the saying of the Glorified Speaker:
{"He said, 'My Lord, appoint for me a sign.' He said, 'Your sign is that you will not speak to the people for three nights, [while remaining] sound.' So he came out to his people from the prayer chamber and signaled to them to glorify [God] in the morning and afternoon."} 2
And the revelation was with his hand, his eye, and his eyebrow, not with his tongue and his speech. And the prohibition that Abd Allah manifested within it, from eating, drinking, lying, and speaking what is not of the truth, to all that God prohibited in it—all of that was in anticipation of the appearance of the