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'" Commentary : The Qur'an has reiterated on several occasions that the words of Allah(the Qur'an)are miracles because of the inability of man and jinn to present something similar, and it has presented this challenge to both of them. Among the verses that testify to this fact, one may cite verse 31 of the Sura Hud.

Despite the fact that Islam has had millions of opponents throughout history and still has such enemies, and they have striven to weaken the Qur'an and defeat Islam, carrying out intensive activities in the process, yet this confident challenge of the Qur'an has been left unanswered and will continue to be so until the Day of Resurrection. Since we are dealing with setting the dimensions and the definition of the Qur'an, we will now point out some aspects of this divine miracle.

1.It distills extensive and profound wisdom into concise words. For instance, regarding the relationship of man and woman, it comments: "They(your wives)are a clothing for you and you are a clothing for them. '(1) To explain the fragility and vulnerability of the non- divine powers, it likens them to a spider's web or declares that they are unable to create even a (1) Sura Al- Baqarah, No. 2, verse 187 ‏gnat. It says: " verily those whom you call upon besides Allah cannot create a gnat.

"(1) Its profundity and the sweetness of words do not render it monotonous even if it may be read over and again for more than thousand times; on the contrary, each time it is studied it presents new messages. Its harmony of words is especially outstanding and if a Qur'anic verse is placed among other Arabic texts or passages it can be easily distinguished from them.

The comprehensive nature of the Qur'an: It includes reasoning and demonstration to citing examples from worldly affairs to the life in hereafter, and also the facts concerning family problems, legal, political, military, ethical, historical teachings etc. Its realism: Its contents are not based upon conjecture; even its stories are documented and real.