Peace everyone,
In the Quran, Allah has a little conversation with Shaitan that is very strikingly similar to Ormazd's conversation with Ahriman.
Before I begin, Ormazd's conversation with Ahriman is recorded in the Bundahishn. This was an apocryphal Zoroastrian book written in the 5th century AD. It was written in the Palahvi text of the Sassanian empire. It likely made it's way into Arabia which was partially under Sassanid control. A similar account is found in the Zadsprand, a compilation of Persian myths.
Islam's story about Iblis involves three things:
1) Iblis refuses to offer praise to Adam
2) Iblis declares that he will work against God and destroy God's creation; and that he would mislead man.
3) Allah makes a boon with Iblis giving him an allotted time until he is destroyed.
The story of the devil Ahriman in the Zoroastrian religion is recorded in a apocryphal Zoroastrian writing called the Bundahishn ("creation").
the same three important events also occur in the Persian book of creation.
1) Ahriman refuses to offer assitance and praise to Orhmazd's creation.
2) Ahriman declares that he will work against Ohrmazd's creation and try to cause it turn against him.
3) Ohrmazd grants Ahriman a period of time to exist until he is destroyed.
The Bundahishn 1
13. Then Ohrmazd, with a knowledge of which way the end of the matter would be, went to meet the evil spirit, and proposed peace to him, and spoke thus: 'Evil spirit! bring assistance unto my creatures, and offer praise! so that, in reward for it, ye (you and your creatures) may become immortal and undecaying, hungerless and thirstless.'
14. And the evil spirit shouted thus: 'I will not depart, I will not provide assistance for thy creatures, I will not offer praise among thy creatures, and I am not of the same opinion with thee as to good things. I will destroy thy creatures for ever and everlasting; moreover, I will force all thy creatures into disaffection to thee and affection for myself.' 15. And
the explanation thereof is this, that the evil spirit reflected in this manner, that Ohrmazd was helpless as regarded him, therefore He proffers peace; and he did not agree, but bore on even into conflict with Him.
16. And Ohrmazd spoke thus: 'You are not omniscient and almighty, O evil spirit! so that it is not possible for thee to destroy me, and it is not possible for thee to force my creatures so that they will not return to my possession.'
17. Then Ohrmazd, through omniscience, knew that: If I do not grant a period of contest, then it will be possible for him to act so that he may be able to cause the seduction of my creatures to himself. As even now there are many of the intermixture of mankind who practice wrong more than right. 18. And Ohrmazd spoke to the evil spirit thus: 'Appoint a period! so that the intermingling of the conflict may be for nine thousand years. For he knew that by appointing this period the evil spirit would be undone.
19. Then the evil spirit, unobservant and through ignorance, was content with that agreement; just like two men quarreling together, who propose a time thus: Let us appoint such-and-such a day for a fight.
20. Ohrmazd also knew this, through omniscience, that within these nine thousand years, for three thousand years everything proceeds by the will of Ohrmazd, three thousand years there is an intermingling of the wills of Ohrmazd and Ahriman, and the last three thousand years the evil spirit is disabled, and they keep the adversary away from the creatures.
ZADSPRAM 1
5. For protection from the fiend (druj) the spirits rushed in, the spirits of the sky, water, earth, plants, animals, mankind, and fire He had appointed, and they maintained it (the protection) three thousand years. 6. Ahriman, also, ever collected means in the gloom; and at the end of the three thousand years he came back to the boundary, blustered (patistad), and exclaimed thus: 'I will smite thee, I will smite the creatures which thou thinkest have produced fame for thee -- thee who art the beneficent spirit I will destroy everything about them.'
7. Ohrmazd answered thus: 'Thou art not a doer of everything, O fiend!'
8. And, again, Ahriman retorted thus: 'I will seduce all material life into disaffection to thee and affection to myself.'
9. Ohrmazd perceived, through the spirit of wisdom, thus: 'Even the blustering of Ahriman is capable of performance, if I do not allow disunion (la barininam) during a period of struggle.' 10. And he demanded of him a period for friendship, for it was seen by him that Ahriman does not rely upon the intervention of any vigorous ones, and the existence of a period is obtaining the benefit of the mutual friendship and just arrangement of both; and he formed it into three periods, each period being three millenniums. 11. Ahriman relied upon it, and Ohrmazd perceived that, though it is not possible to have Ahriman sent down, ever when he wants he goes back to his own requisite, which is darkness; and from the poison which is much diffused endless strife arises.
12. And after the period was appointed by him, he recited the Ahunwar formula;
From the Quran:
[15.31] But Iblis (did it not); he refused to be with those who made obeisance.
[15.32] He said: O Iblis! what excuse have you that you are not with those who make obeisance?
[15.33] He said: I am not such that I should make obeisance to a mortal whom Thou hast created of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.
[15.34] He said: Then get out of it, for surely you are driven away:
[15.35] And surely on you is curse until the day of judgment.
[15.36] He said: My Lord! then respite me till the time when they are raised.
[15.37] He said: So surely you are of the respited ones
[15.38] Till the period of the time made known.
[15.39] He said: My Lord! because Thou hast made life evil to me, I will certainly make (evil) fair-seeming to them on earth, and I will certainly cause them all to deviate
[15.40] Except Thy servants from among them, the devoted ones.
[15.41] He said: This is a right way with Me:
[15.42] Surely. as regards My servants, you have no authority ,over them except those who follow you of the deviators.
[15.43] And surely Hell is the promised place of them all:
[15.44] It has seven gates; for every gate there shall be a separate party of them.
[15.45] Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be in the midst of gardens and fountains:
[15.46] Enter them in peace, secure.
[15.47] And We will root out whatever of rancor is in their breasts-- (they shall be) as brethren, on raised couches, face to face.
[15.48] Toil shall not afflict them in it, nor shall they be ever ejected from it.
[17.61] And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam; they made obeisance, but Iblis (did it not). He said: Shall I make obeisance to him whom Thou hast created of dust?
[18.50] And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam; they made obeisance but Iblis (did it not). He was of the jinn, so he transgressed the commandment of his Lord. What! would you then take him and his offspring for friends rather than Me, and they are your enemies? Evil is (this) change for the unjust.
[20.116] And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam, they made obeisance, but Iblis (did it not); he refused.
[38.74] But not Iblis: he was proud and he was one of the unbelievers.
[38.75] He said: O Iblis! what prevented you that you should do obeisance to him whom I created with My two hands? Are you proud or are you of the exalted ones?
[38.76] He said: I am better than he; Thou hast created me of fire, and him Thou didst create of dust.
[38.77] He said: Then get out of it, for surely you are driven away:
[38.78] And surely My curse is on you to the day of judgment.
[38.79] He said: My Lord! then respite me to the day that they are raised.
[38.80] He said: Surely you are of the respited ones,
[38.81] Till the period of the time made known.
[38.82] He said: Then by Thy Might I will surely make them live an evil life, all,
[2.36] But the Shaitan made them both fall from it, and caused them to depart from that (state) in which they were; and We said: Get forth, some of you being the enemies of others, and there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time.
[59.16] Like the Shaitan when he says to man: Disbelieve, but when he disbelieves, he says: I am surely clear of you; surely I fear Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
The conversation between Allah and Shaitan has no Biblical basis.
It must have come from somewhere, right?
Was it from Allah Himself, or from a pre-existing story?
The story from the Bundahishn was written 1000+ years after Zoroaster lived, so it's very unreliable! It's very likely just a myth that ended up in the Quran like many other myths in circulation at that time.
Truly the Quran was fabricated--the evidence just keeps piling up!