Is the Qur’an’s challenge to the Arabs void because it is impossible for them to win it, even if they were to produce a surah like it, since it would be said that it is an imitation, and if they were to produce a different surah, it would not be like it? And how could the Qur’an have challenged the eloquent masters of the Arabs rhetorically, while the poets of the Mu'allaqat were not from Quraish or Mecca? And what is the proof of the Qur’an’s miraculous nature to the disbelievers, and is it possible that Islamic history might have overlooked their responses to this challenge?

These are baseless misconceptions. The first misconception: The challenge of the Quran is to produce words similar to it, not to produce the exact Quran itself. The second misconception: The challenge is for all people, and the Quraysh were the most eloquent of Arabs in language, and the scarcity of poetry in Mecca was due to the scarcity of its causes, not their inability. Moreover, eloquence and rhetoric are not limited to poetry. The third misconception: Ignorance of an event's occurrence is not proof of its non-occurrence. The challenge remains to this day, and if anyone were to produce something similar to the Quran, it would have been preserved and transmitted.