Text of verse 52:34
فَلْيَأْتُوا۟ بِحَدِيثٍ مِّثْلِهِۦٓ إِن كَانُوا۟ صَٰدِقِينَ ٣٤
Transliteration
falyatū biḥadīthin mith'lihi in kānū ṣādiqīna
Translation
Then let them produce a statement like it, if they should be truthful.
سورة الطور، الآية ٣٤
فَلْيَأْتُوا۟ بِحَدِيثٍ مِّثْلِهِۦٓ إِن كَانُوا۟ صَٰدِقِينَ ٣٤
falyatū biḥadīthin mith'lihi in kānū ṣādiqīna
Then let them produce a statement like it, if they should be truthful.
Verse 34 of Surah At-Tur (52:34), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 525 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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So let them produce a narrative like it, even if it has been fabricated, if they are true in their claim that he has fabricated it.
Then let them produce a discourse like this, if they are truthful13.
[13] Arab pagans were challenged to produce the like of this Quran, ten surahs, or one surah, but the challenge has never been met until the present day. See 2:23, 11:13, 52:34.
Let them then produce a recital like unto it (the Qur’ân) if they are truthful.
Then let them produce speech the like thereof, if they are truthful.
Let them then produce a recital like unto it,- If (it be) they speak the truth!
Then let them bring an announcement like it if they are truthful.
Then let them come up with a discourse like this, in case they are sincere.