17.59 – Nothing prevented Us from sending the signs
This verse raises the question of whether Allah’s messengers come accompanied by “signs” (āyāt), understood as miracles.
In the conversations and debates that sprang up between the conquering Arabs and the Christians and Jews in the Islamic Empire, it was not unusual for non-Muslims to ask whether the messenger of Islam had any miracles to show in support of the Muslim claim for the divine origin of the Quran. In available documents from that early period, some Christians and Jews cited Q 17.59 and 17.90–96. Non-Muslims asserted that miracles by Moses and Jesus supported the truth of the Torah and Gospel. See the discussion of miracles and the messenger of the Quran at 43.40, and see also “Early Christian Exegesis of the Quran”.