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Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 1–3Faith enables man to discover God as a Being who is all powerful and possessed of all the good attributes.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 4It was the way of God to raise prophets from among the addressees’ own community, fully taking into account their mentality, so that they might be able to call upon the people in their own understandable language to accept the truth.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 5Here, ‘Our Signs’ means those signs of the universe which prove the statements of God to be true.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 6–8The speech of Moses referred to in these verses is perhaps the one which he had made in the Sinai desert to the Children of Israel, a few days before his death.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 9All of the prophets who came to various communities, had the same experience: everywhere efforts were made to silence them, for every community opposed its prophet.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 10This verse is related to ancient communities.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 11–12When the people rejected each contemporary prophet in turn, saying ‘You are a human being like us,’ the real reason was not that they considered it necessary for the prophet to be superhuman.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 13–14The religion adopted by the various communities was severely shaken by the call of the prophets.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 15–17In the eyes of God, man’s greatest crime is his adoption of an attitude of arrogance and obstinacy when he is called upon to submit to God.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 18–20The people of Arabia who rejected the Prophet Muhammad were those very people who had already accepted God and religion.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 21In reality, man is always under the eye of God.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 22The world of God is the world of reality and is not based on imagination.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 23To say assalamu alaykum or ‘peace be with you’ at the time of meeting is not simply a formal social custom.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 24–26In the present world Almighty God has appointed outward symbols for different realities.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 27Being steadfast in the world means persevering in righteousness and doing good deeds at every turn in one’s life.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 28–30These verses are primarily addressed to the chiefs of the Quraysh.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 31When a man confronts troubles, he tries his utmost to save himself from them; if he has friends, he uses their strength; if he has wealth, he spends it in that connection.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 32–34To the most wonderful extent, the present world bears testimony to God’s existence.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 35–36Prior to the advent of the period of Abraham, the condition of countries and communities had become such that polytheism (ascribing partners to God—shirk) had become the order of the day.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verse 37The hilly and desert world of ancient Makkah was a natural training ground for the realization of God; the entire panorama of nature was an encouragement to man to remember Him.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 38–41In this prayer of Abraham, one sees glimpses of all those emotions which emerge in the heart of a true subject of God while addressing a prayer to Him.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 42–43When the Truth presents itself to a man, he sets himself against it.Chapter 14, Abraham (Ibrahim) · verses 44–46Man’s behaviour is such that he does not realize his fate right to the very end.Chapter 14, 0 · verses 47–52A prophet bears testimony to the religion of God to the fullest possible extent.