“Say: Had God willed, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made it known to you. I lived among you a lifetime before it. Will you not reason?” [Yunus: 16] “Before reciting it and before you knew it, it never crossed my mind. Will you not reason that I did not fabricate it throughout my earlier life, nor give any sign of doing so? How could I fabricate it now, after a long life among you? You know that I cannot read or write and have not studied with anyone. Yet I brought a great Book that confounded the eloquent and challenged scholars. Could it come from myself, or is this decisive proof that it is a revelation from One who is wise and praiseworthy?”
