Nobody can produce a surah like it. Isn't that a miracle?
Literary excellence is a matter of taste and has no agreed judge. Homer and Shakespeare are also unmatched. The Bible offers a test anyone can check: fulfilled prophecy and a public resurrection.
The challenge has no agreed criteria and no neutral judge, so it cannot be failed. The Bible's tests are public: prophecies written centuries ahead, and a resurrection proclaimed in the city where it happened, while eyewitnesses lived.
23And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.
Quran 2:23 (Pickthall) · context
88Say: Verily, though mankind and the jinn should assemble to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof though they were helpers one of another.
Quran 17:88 (Pickthall) · context
9Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me. 10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
Isaiah 46:9-10 (WEB) · context
6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:6 (WEB) · context