Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

prophet challenged to produce signs

prophet_challenged_to_produce_signs

A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Messengers and Prophets. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


islamic

  • The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 10221-10351 confidence: high

    Opponents say they will not believe unless the apostle produces signs: a fountain, a garden with rivers, falling heaven, God and angels as vouchers, a gold house, ascent to Heaven, or a sent-down readable book; the reply asks whether he is more than a man and apostle.

    Opponents demand a fountain, garden with rivers, falling heaven, divine and angelic witnesses, a gold house, ascent to Heaven, and a readable book.

    read in the book