had it not been for the mercy of your Lord. Indeed, His favour upon you is immense.
17:87
Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If ˹all˺ humans and jinn were to come together to produce the equivalent of this Quran, they could not produce its equal, no matter how they supported each other.”
17:88
And We have truly set forth every ˹kind of˺ lesson for humanity in this Quran, yet most people persist in disbelief.
17:89
They challenge ˹the Prophet˺, “We will never believe in you until you cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us,
17:90
or until you have a garden of palm trees and vineyards, and cause rivers to flow abundantly in it,
17:91
or cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces, as you have claimed, or bring Allah and the angels before us, face to face,
17:92
or until you have a house of gold, or you ascend into heaven—and even then we will not believe in your ascension until you bring down to us a book that we can read.” Say, “Glory be to my Lord! Am I not only a human messenger?”
17:93
And nothing has prevented people from believing when guidance comes to them except their protest: “Has Allah sent a human as a messenger?”
17:94
Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Had there been angels walking the earth, well settled, We would have surely sent down for them an angel from heaven as a messenger.”
17:95
Say, “Sufficient is Allah as a Witness between me and you. He is certainly All-Knowing, All-Seeing of His servants.”
17:96