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Sura 11
Aya 13
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أَم يَقولونَ افتَراهُ ۖ قُل فَأتوا بِعَشرِ سُوَرٍ مِثلِهِ مُفتَرَياتٍ وَادعوا مَنِ استَطَعتُم مِن دونِ اللَّهِ إِن كُنتُم صادِقينَ

Muhammad Asad

and so they assert, "[Muhammad himself] has in vented this [Qur'an]!"1 Say [unto them]: "Produce, then, ten surahs of similar merit, invented [by yourselves], and [to this end] call to your aid whomever you can, other than, God, if what you say is true!2
  • For my rendering of the particle am at the beginning of this sentence as "and", see surah 10, note 61.
  • I.e., that a divine writ like the Qur'an could have been "invented" by a human being. Cf. 2:23, 10:37-38 and 17:88, as well as the corresponding notes.