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In several places God, Gabriel, Muhammad, etc. challenge people to bring a
book, surahs, a surah, verses, lines, etc. like it.
There aren't any rules. The point is that the Qur'an is immitable.
What makes the Qur'an the Word of God is that when we hear it our
hearts
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Yes, but that's what not what most Muslims believe. They say no book ever
written is like it. The prbolem with that is that the Quran compres itself to
other scriptures like the Sefer Yetzirah, Torah, Psalms, Gospels, etc. They
also
say since noone will ever
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If you believe a book is the very speech of God, of course you are going to
say that no other book written is like it, even if it has similarities in
style, prose and language to other works. The uniqueness of the Book is who
the Author is, not whether it has a similar
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Yes, but that's what not what most Muslims believe. They say no book ever
written is like it.
The Qur'an was a book meant to be heard more than read and it reciting
will reduce Muslims to tears. Any Muslim but those obsessed with this
number 19 business will likely
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Mirza Abu'l-Fadl discusses this issue in depth in his magnum opus, the
al-farAA'id and I wish Khazeh would share with us his translation of that book.
I agree with Susan. And the inimitability of the Quran or of the Writings of
Baha'u'llah is not in their literary
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It's basically a challenge from God to those who reject it. Some of the
polytheist Arabs took to saying that Muhammad (pbuh) was like the
soothsayers who would go into trances and reveal prophecies in poetic prose,
for a nominal fee. The Qur'an tells people to learn
