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'''Taḥaddī''' (Arabic: {{ia|تَحَدّی}}) or '''the Challenge of the Qur'an''' is a term in Quranic sciences and Islamic [[kalam]] (theology) referring to a challenge made by the [[Quran]] (or in its broader meaning, by every [[prophet]] who had a [[miracle]]) in order to prove the prophet's relation with the hidden world and the failure of opponents to bring the same divine miracle. In the Quran, God asked opponents to bring something similar to the Quran if they reject the [[prophethood]].

The word, "tahaddi", is from the Arabic root, "ḥ-d-y" ({{ia|ح-د-ی}}), which means to challenge someone to combat you or compete with you in order to show that they will fail. Terminologically, it refers to God's challenge for some opponents of [[the Prophet Muhammad (s)]] to bring something similar to what he brought if they are right that Muhammad was not a prophet. The term, "tahaddi", came to be commonly used in works of kalam in the 3rd/9th century for the first time.