Or is it interrupted? The pronoun in 'he has invented it' refers to what is revealed to you. He challenged them first with ten chapters, then with one chapter, just as a writer in a letter says to his companion: write ten lines similar to what I write. If it becomes clear to him that he is unable to produce something like his writing, he says: I have limited myself to one line like it, meaning similar to it, going towards the similarity of each one of them to the invented ones, a description of ten chapters. When they said: you have invented the Qur'an and fabricated it from yourself and it is not from Allah, he followed them in their claim and let them have their way, saying: suppose I have fabricated it from myself and that it was not revealed to me and that the matter is as you say, then you also bring forth words like it fabricated from yourselves. You are eloquent Arabs like me and you are not incapable of producing something like what I am able to articulate. If you say: how can what they bring be like it, while what they bring is fabricated and this is not fabricated? I say: its meaning is like it in good expression and structure, even if it is fabricated.