if it were not for your Lord’s mercy: His favour to you has been truly great

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Say, ‘Even if all mankind and jinn came together to produce something like this Quran, they could not produce anything like it, however much they helped each other.’

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In this Quran, We have set out all kinds of examples for people, yet most of them persist in disbelieving

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They say, ‘We will not believe for you [Muhammad] until you make a spring gush out of the ground for us

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or until you have a garden of date palms and vines, and make rivers pour through them

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or make the sky fall on us in pieces, as you claimed will happen; or bring God and the angels before us face to face

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or have a house made of gold; or ascend into the sky- even then, we will not believe in your ascension until you send a real book down for us to read.’ Say, ‘Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything but a mortal, a messenger?’

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The only thing that kept these people from believing, when guidance came to them, was that they said, ‘How could God have sent a human being as a messenger?’

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Say, ‘If there were angels walking about on earth, feeling at home, We would have sent them an angel from Heaven as a messenger.’

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Say, ‘God is witness enough between me and you. He knows and observes His servants well.’

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