I don’t think you fully understand the Qur’an’s challenge to produce a Surah like it, what it entails and why this attempt fails miserably.

Let me explain why, inshāAllāh. https://twitter.com/sapiens57/status/1259510439051812867

First thing to clear up is the Qur’an’s challenge itself. It says:

“And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful” al-Baqara:23

Meaning one should produce a surah that replicates the Qur’an’s brilliance in composition, whereby the Qur’an invented new expressions or improved older ones.
Mere imitation means that the attempt has actually submitted to the eloquence of the Qur’an since it has failed to...

reach the same level of creativity and syntactic beauty that the Qur’an did.

Case in point:
The first three ‘verses’ were copied from the Qur’an in Surah Qāf.

Notice the parallelism between the Qur’an and the attempted Surah. The Qur’an starts off with a word (the name of the..

surah) and swears by al-Qur’an al-Majīd [Object and Descriptor].
This was imitated by the attempted Surah by starting with Covid and swears by al-Firus al-Mabīd [Object and Descriptor].

The next verse also copies word-for word the second verse of Surah Qāf but changing a few...

of the nouns in the verse. However, plagiarism comes with a price. By copying this verse, the writer missed the whole point of the verse embedded within its eloquent wording

al-Zamakhsharī in his tafsir on Qur’anic eloquence, al-Kashāf, mentions that the meaning behind this is..

“that the Qur’an disagrees with them being surprised over something that they shouldn’t be surprised at”. i.e the Qur’an is saying that the coming of a warner from among them is not a surprising/wondrous thing, but the disbelievers thought it to be surprising, hence the wording..

بل عجبوا
“BUT they wonder...”
Now the person who attempted this copied this part verbatim for it to sound nice, but in doing so, destroys the meaning of their verse since it doesn’t make sense to rebuke people being surprised that a virus came from a place that is “far away”.

Since that is their point they are trying to make: people are surprised Covid came from a far-away place.
The Qur’an’s point: The disbelievers shouldn’t be surprised that a warner came to them BUT they were surprised, hence the word بل.
Notice the intricacy lost?

On to the next part:
“And the infidels said it was a stubborn disease”.
The coherence of the verse is lost because the next sentence does not follow from the rest of the verses.

Compare it with the Qur’anic verse, “And the disbelievers said, this is an amazing thing”.

al-Zamakhsharī said that “...the disbelievers said: this is an amazing thing” shows their disbelief because the immediate next verse talks about resurrection after death, which was what the disbelievers denied. al-Zamakhsharī said, hence why the word “the disbelievers” was...

used in that position of the sentence.

This verse is coherent because the beginning, middle and end of the verse are interconnected like a short story.

Beginning: They(who?) were surprised
Middle: The disbelievers(why were they disbelievers?)
End: They denied the belief of...

resurrection after death by saying that it’s a surprising thing to them.

However, the verse in the attempted surah fails to have this level of coherence since what does disbelieving have to do with the virus being a stubborn disease?

And it *is* true that the virus is a stubborn disease, so the بل doesn’t make sense to be in the verse.

It’s quite sad that the only eloquent part in this attempt was directly taken from the Qur’an, but even then, they failed to make it work properly lol.

The attempted surah also uses “kallā bal” in an attempt to imitate the Qur’an but failing to be as eloquent.
The Qur’an uses this phrase six times, all in various contexts. al-Zamakhsharī says for all these instances that “kallā” is used to rebuke a person(s) for an action..

that they did (depending on the story in the verse). Meaning, that for the usage of “kallā” in the Qur’an, it actually refers to the disapprovement of their actions (that is mentioned/understood elsewhere in the Qur’an). The attempted surah uses it for a simple denial of “no”..

which dilutes the depth of the word and shows how superficial the verse is, in contrast to the interconnectedness of the Qur’an.

As for the other verses, they seem pretty original for two reasons:
1) The sentence structure is utterly simple and straightforward. There are no...

longer any attempts to be eloquent, no complex word usage and no rhetoric used. They are all simple “statements” following a typical sentence structure.

Note that rhyming does not necessarily make something eloquent. There’s a reason why rhyme (al-Saja’) is only a small part...

of Balaghāh. Even a schoolkid could write sentences that rhyme without breaking a sweat.

2) Speaking of rhymes, their rhyming is kinda messy because they are attempting to “force” a rhyme by using words that end with similar letters, and making the whole sentence weak and...

plain ridiculous.
e.g.:
“Do not go out and buy... wheat”?
I don’t think anyone buys wheat in shops, most people buy flour or baked goods lol.
It’s because they want to rhyme using the word “samīd” which makes the meaning awkward.

“And wash your hands with... new(?) soap”
Awkward meaning again because they want to use the word “jadīd”. The meaning makes absolutely no sense. I have yet to hear from any health ministry that asks their people to only use new soap (does that mean soap can only be used once

since it won’t be considered new anymore after you use it for the first time? Who knows)

Conclusion: This attempt fails the Qur’an’s challenge because it does not reach the Qur’an’s level of creativity and elegance. In fact, it proves how the Qur’an is eloquent by copying from..

it, but even plagiarism fails to make it as eloquent as the Qur’an

The Qur’an has not even enforced conditions in the challenge to make it truly miraculous such as being sent down in the middle of a desert to an illiterate person over the course of 23 years, yet they still fail

SubhānAllāh! Surely this is the miracle of the Qur’an.

Say, "If mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like of it, even if they were to each other assistants." al-Isrā’:88

Just because some people can’t tell the difference between the attempted Surah and the real Qur’an, doesn’t mean it is as eloquent. It does not prove the superiority of the attempted Surah, only the inferiority of those lacking in knowledge.

Wallāhu a’lam
Correct me if im wrong