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And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Surah like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (if there are any) besides Allah, if your (doubts) are true. But if ye cannot and of a surety ye cannot then fear the Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones, which is prepared for those who reject Faith. (al-Baqara, 23-24)

The Quran has challenged the deniers since the first days of its revelation with the verses above and similar ones; it has asked those who doubted that this book was the word of Allah to produce similar verses. If the polytheists who lived in a period when literature was in demand and among whom were many orators and rhetoricians could have answered this challenge, they would have won their struggle against Muslims through words and they would not have to fight Muslims. After fourteen centuries that passed, the Quran is still living in the tongues and hearts of billions of Muslims on the one hand and is still challenging the deniers in the same way on the other hand.