The word · The Qur’an
إِعْجازُ القُرْآن
I'jaz al-Qur'an
The Qur'an's inimitability: that no one can produce its like, and the standing challenge to try.
Also written · Ijaz · Ijaz al-Quran · Ejaz · Ijazul Quran · Tahaddi · inimitability · miracle of the Quran · challenge of the Quran · scientific miracles · Ijaz ul Quran
The meaning
What I'jaz al-Qur'an means in Islam
The challenge is made in stages within the Qur'an, from producing ten surahs like it down to a single surah, addressed to the finest speakers of a language that prized poetry above everything. Classical scholars located the miracle mainly in the arrangement and cadence of the Arabic, not only in what is said. Modern claims about scientific miracles are a separate and much more contested argument.
Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- Qur'anThe speech of Allah revealed to Muhammad in Arabic over about twenty three years, preserved word for word.القُرْآن
- Huruf Muqatta'atThe single letters that open twenty nine surahs, such as Alif Lam Mim, recited letter by letter.الحُروفُ المُقَطَّعَة
- TarjamahA translation of the Qur'an, properly called a translation of the meanings rather than the Qur'an itself.تَرْجَمَةُ القُرْآن
More from The Qur’an
- Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة
- Hafs an AsimThe reading found in most printed mushafs today, transmitted by Hafs from his teacher Asim of Kufa.حَفْصٌ عَنْ عاصِم
- Jam' al-Qur'anThe gathering of the Qur'an into one written volume, carried out under Abu Bakr and then Uthman.جَمْعُ القُرْآن
- MufassirA scholar who writes or teaches tafsir, trained in Arabic, the readings, the Sunnah and the occasions.المُفَسِّر
- Qira'atThe canonical ways of reciting the Qur'an, each carried by chain from the Prophet through a named reader.القِراءات
- TadwirThe middle speed of recitation, sitting between the slow tartil and the quick hadr.التَّدْوير