This audiobook is prepared from the Risale-i Nur Collection (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi). This specific section is from the Twenty Fifth Word which is about the Miracles of Quran.
A Passage from the text:
"The Qur'an, therefore, invited the Arabian orators of that time to reply to even one of the shortest of the Suras. It challenged them with the decree of:
'And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a Sura resembling it.' (Qur'an 2.23)
It also said: 'If you do not believe, you shall be damned and shall go to Hell.' It provoked them intensely. It smashed their pride in fearsome manner. It was contemptuous of their arrogant minds. It condemned them firstly to eternal extinction and then to eternal extinction in Hell, as well as to worldly extinction. It said: 'Either dispute me, or you and your property shall perish.'
If it had been possible to dispute the Qur'an, is it at all possible that while there was an easy solution like disputing it with one or two lines and nullifying the claim, they should have chosen the most dangerous and most difficult, the way of war? Yes, is it at all possible that that clever people, that politically-minded nation, who at one time were to govern the world through politics, should have abandoned the shortest, easiest, and most light way, and chosen the most dangerous, which was going to cast their lives and all their property into peril? For if their literary figures had been able to dispute it with a few words, the Qur'an would have given up its claim, and they would have been saved from material and moral disaster. Whereas they chose a perilous, lengthy road like war. That means it was not possible to dispute in by word; it was impossible, so they were compelled to fight it with the sword."
Footnotes:
5. Qur'an, 2.23
6. Qur'an, 21.46
7. Qur'an, 2.3
8. Qur'an, 112.1
9. Qur'an, 2.1-2
10. Qur'an, 57.1; 59.1; 61.1
11. Qur'an, 17.44
12. Qur'an, 55.33-36
13. Qur'an, 67.5
14. The great news Sura. Qur'an, Chapter 78
15. Qur'an, 3.26-27
16. Qur'an, 84.1-5
17. Qur'an, 11.44
18. Qur'an, 36.39
19. Qur'an, 36.38
20. Qur'an, 71.16
21. Qur'an, 15.94
22. Suyuti, al-Itkan fi Ulum al Quran, ii, 117, Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa, i, 264
24. Tanwin is also a Nun
25. Pronounced and unpronounced, Hamza is twenty-five, and three more than Hamza's silent sister Alif, because its points are three
26. The style here has slipped into the clothes of this Sura's meaning
27. Qur'an, 76.1
28. Qur'an, 88.1
29. Qur'an, 67.8
30. In these phrases is an allusion to the matters discussed in these Suras
31. Qur'an, 49.12
32. Qur'an, 30.50
33.Qur'an, 50.01
34. Qur'an, 50.6-11
35. Qur'an, 36.1-3
36. Qur'an, 36.78-79
37. Qur'an, 2.74
38. Qur'an, 2.23
39. Qur'an, 11.13
40. Qur'an, 2.24
41. Qur'an, 52.29-43
42. Qur'an, 36.69
43. Qur'an, 21.22
44. Qur'an, 52.30
45. Qur'an, 52.32
46. Qur'an, 52.32
47. Qur'an, 52.33
48. Qur'an, 52.35
49. Qur'an, 52.35
50. Qur'an, 52.36
51. Qur'an, 52.37
52. Qur'an, 52.37
53. Qur'an, 52.38
54. Qur'an, 52.39
55. Qur'an, 52.40
56. Qur'an, 52.41
57. Qur'an, 52.42
58. Qur'an, 52.43
59. Qur'an, 21.22
60. Qur'an, 20.05