قِدْحَةٌ
Root: قدح
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قِدْحَةٌ
The act of striking or producing, fire with the
مِقْدَحَةٌ. Hence the saying, لَوْ شَآءَ ٱللّٰهُ لَجَعَلَ لِلنَّاسِ قِدْحَةَ
ظُلْمَةٍ كَمَا جَعَلَ لَهُمْ قِدْحَةَ نُورٍ [If God had willed, He had assigned to men the faculty of producing darkness, like as He has assigned to them the faculty of producing light]: a trad.
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