History has not a single instance to show in which this...

History has not a single instance to show in which this particular aspect of the miraculousness of the Qur’an has been negated; it cannot point to a single book comparable to the Qur’an. Even among the speeches and sayings of the Prophet, nothing can be found which resembles the Qur’an from the point of view of style and eloquence.

If the forces opposing Islam, with all of their skilled rhetoricians, had been able to create works capable of competing with the Qur’an, there would have been no need for them to endure losses and casualties by going to war, to suffer hardship and expend material resources. They could have won an easy victory by means of propaganda, a kind of cold war, and put paid to the rise of Islam within itself, its place of origin. They called into play all their resources…