If you have doubts about the Qur’an We have revealed to Our servant Muhammad, then produce a Sura similar to it. And call upon all your helpers besides God to bear witness for you, if what you say is true.(2:23)

That is, “If you have any doubts, summon all your elders and supporters to help you and testify for you, then compose the like of a single sura.” Since this has been explained and proved in Isharat al-I‘jaz, here we shall suffice with a brief summary of it. It is as follows.

The Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition says: “O men and jinn! If you have any doubts that the Qur’an is God’s Word and imagine it to be man’s word, then come on, here it is, let’s see! You produce a book like this Qur’an from someone unlettered who does not know how to read and write like the person you call Muhammad the Trustworthy, and get him to compose it! If you cannot do this, then he need not be untaught, let him be a famous man of letters and learned. And if you are not able to do this, alright, not on his own, take all the finest works of all your orators and men of eloquence, and indeed of all the literary geniuses of the past and all those of the future, and the assistance of all your gods. Work with all your strength, compose the like of this Qur’an. And if you cannot do this, leave aside the truths of the Qur’an and its many miraculous aspects, which are impossible to imitate, and compose a work which is its equal in only the eloquence of its composition!”

With the silencing words,

Bring then ten Suras forged, like it,(11:13)

it says: “Come on, I do not want its true meaning from you, let it be fabrications and lies and false tales. You will not be able to do this. So it need not be as much as the whole Qur’an, just produce ten suras like it. You will not be able to do this either, so produce a single sura. This will be too much as well. So alright, make it the equivalent of a short sura. You will not be able to do this either, although the need for you to do so is so great. For your honour and self-respect, your dignity and religion, your tribal honour and pride, your life and property, and your lives in this world and the next will all be saved by producing the like of it. Otherwise in this world you will remain in abasement, without honour, dignity, religion, or pride, and your lives and property will be destroyed and will perish, and in the hereafter, as is indicated by the verse,

Then give heed to Hell-fire, whose fuel is men and stones,(2:24)

you will be condemned to everlasting incarceration in Hell; together with your idols you will be fuel to its fires. Since your need is thus great, and