How can claims that the Qur’an is "tales of the ancients" be refuted in light of historical facts?

The accusation by the disbelievers of Quraysh that the Qur’an was “tales of the ancients” was merely an attempt to discredit and turn people away from it, not a serious discussion. The Qur’an challenged them to produce a single surah (definition) like it, but they failed.

The Qur’an affirms its confirmation of previous stories, and that the prophecies contained within it were unknown to Prophet Muhammad or his people before.

To prove that the Qur’an was quoted from previous sources, the mere existence of shared facts is not enough. Rather, the quotation must be literal or conceptual without addition or correction. This does not apply to the Qur’an, as it added, supplemented, and corrected errors found in previous books, which indicates its divine origin.

Several points demonstrate that the Qur’an is not quoted from other sources, including:

1. Allah guaranteed to refute this misconception. 2. The Old Testament was not translated into Arabic before Islam. 3. The immediate revelation of the Qur’an after an event refutes the claim that it is “tales of the ancients.” 4. The Qur’an’s challenge to produce anything like it. 5. If the Qur’an were taken from the Torah and the Gospel, why would Muhammad challenge people with something already existing and circulated? 6. These tales and references are not exclusive to Muhammad, so why did the fabricators not produce them? 7. The assumption of the Prophet learning from Syrian Christians and Medinan Jews is inconsistent with historical facts. 8. The existence of some laws consistent with the Torah does not indicate quotation, as the Qur’an came to correct and establish the truth. 9. The Qur’an differed from the Torah and the Gospel in many historical events. 10. The existence of stories in the Qur’an that are not found in Jewish and Christian books. 11. If the Prophet had taken from the Christians, why did they not expose him when he disbelieved in them in the Qur’an? 12. The conversion to Islam of those who claimed the Prophet took the Qur’an from them is evidence against them. 13. The testimony of fair-minded Orientalists that the Qur’an is not a quotation.