Excerpt: Initially,
the Meccan unbelievers said Muhammad is the author of the Quran. God responded
to them: “Or do they say, ‘He himself has composed this
[message]’? No, but they are not willing to believe! But then, [if they deem
it the work of a mere mortal,] let them produce another discourse like it - if
what they say be true! [Or do they deny the existence of God implicitly by
denying the fact of His revelation?] Have they themselves been created without
anything - or were they, perchance, their own creators?” (Quran 52:33-35).
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