—a Qur’an that makes things clear.”¹ Nothing that is not made up of articulated letters can ever, in anyone’s view, be called poetry. Therefore, when they labeled it poetry, it is absolutely certain that they were referring to this very Arabic composition. Once Allah negated its being poetry and affirmed it as Qur’an, no intelligent person could retain the slightest doubt that the Qur’an is these very surahs and verses.

Likewise they said, “Ancient tales that he has had written down; they are dictated to him morning and evening.”² Allah answered them: “Say, ‘It has been sent down by the One who knows every secret in the heavens and the earth. Truly, He is ever-Forgiving, ever-Merciful.’”³ They also said, “If we wished, we could say something like this; this is nothing but the legends of the ancients.”⁴