Challenge Laid Down

Or do they say, “He invented it”? Say, “Then produce ten chapters like it, and call upon anyone you can besides Allah, if you are truthful.”

11:13Or they say: He hath invented it. Say: Then bring ten surahs, the like thereof, invented, and call on everyone ye can beside Allah, if ye are truthful!

Or do they say, “He made it up”? Say, “Then produce a chapter like it and call upon anyone you can besides Allah, if you are truthful.”

10:38Or say they: He hath invented it? Say: Then bring a surah like unto it, and call (for help) on all ye can besides Allah, if ye are truthful.

If you doubt what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like it and call upon your supporters besides Allah, if you are truthful.

2:23And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.

But if you cannot, and you never will, then beware of the Fire, whose fuel is people and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.

2:24And if ye do it not - and ye can never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.

Or do they say, “He made it up”? No, they do not believe.

52:33Or say they: He hath invented it? Nay, but they will not believe!

Let them bring a discourse like it, if they are truthful.

52:34Then let them produce speech the like thereof, if they are truthful.

Say, “If all humans and jinn united to produce something like this Quran, they could not do so, even if they supported one another.”

17:88Say: Verily, though mankind and the jinn should assemble to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof though they were helpers one of another.