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This is Surah Ibrahim (Chapter 14) of the Quran, here in a 19th-century English translation marked by archaic diction, presenting itself as divine revelation delivered to the Prophet Muhammad. The chapter's central argument is that God has consistently sent prophets — Moses, Abraham, and others — to lead people from darkness into light, and that rejection of these messengers leads to severe punishment, while belief and gratitude bring divine reward. A substantial portion recounts the pattern of past peoples (Noah's people, Ad, Thamud) who dismissed their prophets as merely human and clung to ancestral tradition, framing this as a cautionary template for the chapter's contemporary audience. The surah features a striking passage in which Satan, after judgment is rendered, disavows responsibility for human misdeeds, insisting he had no coercive power and that humans chose to follow him freely — making Satan's own speech a vehicle for asserting human moral accountability. Abraham's prayers close the middle section, petitioning God for the safety of Mecca and his descendants, giving the chapter its name and grounding its universal monotheism in a specific founding narrative. The chapter closes with vivid eschatological imagery — sinners in fetters and shirts of pitch — and reaffirms God's absolute singularity as its final doctrinal statement.

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