Challenge Of Quran Being Divine
Please also refer to the video below from 15:53 to 20:17 https://youtu.be/MTmujJ82gt4?t=953
Even Iqbal or Shakespeare can then make a similar claim and reject any poetry presented as similar or superior to theirs. What’s is the point of giving such a challenge if there is no objective way to have a unanimous verdict but it’s subjective and judgmental.
Of course Iqbal holds a very unique and prominent position when it comes to poetry. Similarly ( this comparison is just for the sake of argument ), Quran holds a very unique and prominent position when it comes to matters of metaphysics, creation of universe, creation of life and human beings, the origin of consciousness and the whole scheme of creation: its beginning and its end in addition to its literary eloquence. We need to look at each work by putting them in the relevant place and genre which they purport to present. We can compare any other book that also makes a similar claim w.r.t these issues and judge for ourselves. This is how it has always worked in human history and will always be like this. This is not something that can be confined to some quantitative scale.