Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 2 Al-Baqarah, Ayat 23-23
وَاِنۡ کُنۡتُمۡ فِىۡ رَيۡبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلۡنَا عَلٰى عَبۡدِنَا فَاۡتُوۡا بِسُوۡرَةٍ مِّنۡ مِّثۡلِهٖ وَادۡعُوۡا شُهَدَآءَكُمۡ مِّنۡ دُوۡنِ اللّٰهِ اِنۡ كُنۡتُمۡ صٰدِقِيۡنَ
﴿2:23﴾
(2:23) If you are in any doubt whether it is We Who have revealed this Book
to Our servant, then produce just a surah like it, and call all your supporters
and seek in it the support of all others save Allah. Accomplish this if you
are truthful.24
Notes
24. Before this, in Makka, opponents had often been challenged to produce
anything of comparable merit if they believed the Qur'an to be the work of a
human being. In Madina the same challenge was reiterated. (For similar challenges
made elsewhere in the Qur'an, see
(10: 38);
(11: 13);
(17: 88) and
(52: 33)