The Children of Israel
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[17:88]
Say: "If all mankind and all invisible beings would come together with a view to producing the like of this Qur’ān, they could not produce its like even though they were to exert all their strength in aiding one another!"

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* v.88 : See Appendix III.
* According to Rāghib, the noun mathal (lit., “similitude,” “parable,” or “example”) is here more or less synonymous with wasf (“description by means of a comparison,” i.e., “definition”). In its broadest sense, this term signifies “a lesson.”