Qur'an, lest the Arabs should see miracles and still disbelieve, and therefore be
destroyed as other unbelieving peoples had been. This is what we learn from the following
passages: Surahs XXIX., Al 'Ankabut, 49, 50; XIII., Ar Ra'd, 8, 30; VI., Al An'am,
37, 57, 109; II., Al Baqarah, 112; X., Yunus, 21; XVII., Al Asra'1, 93, 95, 96;
VII., Al A'raf, 202. But the statement in Surah XVII., Al Asra', 61 is the clearest of
all: "Nothing hindered Us from sending (thee) with miracles, except that the peoples
of old treated them as lies2." It is quite clear from this that Muhammad
did not work miracles, for the Qur'an represents God as explaining why that power had
not been given to him.
129. M. The Qur'an itself is a sufficient miracle, as we see in the same Surah,
verse 91: "Say thou: Assuredly if mankind and the Jinn should conspire to produce the
like 3 of this Qur'an, they could