‘bring a single chapter like it…’

It’s no secret that the Quraysh of Makkah met the call of Rasool Allah (SAW) with hostility, slander, persecution, and attempted murder. 

Why, when all the Quraysh had to do, to discredit the Prophet (SAW) and the Message, was to meet the challenge in the Quran?

‘And if you all are in doubt about what I have revealed to My servant, bring a single chapter like it, and call your witnesses besides God if you are truthful.’ (Quran 2:23)

Perhaps the Quraysh did not have the resources or capability to meet the challenge?

Not so… the Quraysh spoke Arabic, the language of the Quran and had amongst them the best poets and orators. It would not have been difficult for them to gather a team of individuals tasked with creating ‘a single chapter like it’.

But, as Walid ibn al-Mughira, one of the leaders of the Quraysh who said of himself,

‘there is none amongst you who knows poetry as well as I do, nor can any compete with me in composition or rhetoric – not even in the poetry of jinns!’ 

admitted,

‘By Allah, I have heard a speech from Muhammad (Quran) that is neither from the speech of men or jinn; the top of it is fertile and beautiful, it has a rhythm and it surpasses everything I’ve heard and nothing can surpass it’;

and in another narration he is reported to have said,

‘I swear by Allah that it is not poetry, nor magic, nor the prattling of insanity. Verily, his speech is from the Words of Allah!’ 

No wonder the Quraysh found it impossible to meet the challenge of the Quran… it’s impossible to compete with the speech of Allah ta’aala.

‘Say: ‘If all mankind and the jinn would come together to produce the like of this Quran, they could not produce its like even though they exerted all their strength in aiding one another.’ (Quran 17:88)

Like their predecessors, the Western powers of today, must resort to thuggery, for they too know, the Quran, the word of God, cannot be replicated.