batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l10221-l10351
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l10221-l10351
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
passage_locator:
label: PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. /
PREFACE; lines 10221-10351
start: '10221'
end: '10351'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage warns of divine power over sea, honors the children of Adam,
describes judgment by books and resurrection, counsels the addressed apostle against
compromise, prescribes prayer and night vigil, states that the Koran is healing
and inimitable, answers questions about the Spirit, reports demands for miraculous
proofs, describes punishment in Hell, recalls Moses confronting Pharaoh and Pharaoh’s
drowning, and concludes with the Koran’s gradual revelation and the humility of
those with prior knowledge when it is recited.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A storm blast at sea and drowning are presented as possible punishment for
thanklessness.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The children of Adam are said to be honored, carried by land and sea, provided
with good food, and endowed beyond many creatures.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: All men will be summoned with their leaders, and some will receive their book
in the right hand and read it without being wronged.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Blindness in the present life is paired with blindness and greater wandering
in the hereafter.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The addressed apostle is warned that opponents nearly beguiled him from revelation,
but divine settling prevented him from leaning toward them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Prayer is commanded from sunset into night, with special mention of daybreak
reading and night watch.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The addressed speaker is instructed to ask for a perfect entry, a perfect
forthcoming, and helping power from the Lord.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Truth is said to come while falsehood vanishes.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The Koran is described as healing and mercy for the faithful, while increasing
the ruin of the wicked.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The Spirit is said to proceed at the Lord’s command, and only a little knowledge
is given to the questioners.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Men and Djinn, even if assembled to help one another, are said to be unable
to produce the like of the Koran.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: Unbelievers demand visible signs including a fountain from the earth, a garden
with rivers, falling heaven, God and angels as vouchers, a gold house, ascent
to Heaven, and a readable book sent down.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: The response to demands for signs emphasizes that the speaker is only a man
and an apostle.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:14
text: On the day of resurrection, the misled are gathered on their faces, blind,
dumb, and deaf, with Hell as their abode and its flame rekindled.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: The wicked question whether bones and dust can be raised as a new creation,
and the answer appeals to the creator of the heavens and earth.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:16
text: Moses is said to have received nine clear signs; Pharaoh calls Moses enchanted,
and Moses says the signs come from the Lord of the heavens and earth.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:17
text: Pharaoh sought to drive Moses’ people from the land, but Pharaoh and his followers
were drowned.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:18
text: Those given knowledge previously fall on their faces worshipping and weeping
when the Koran is recited, and their humility increases.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: The Lord / God
description: The divine speaker and actor who guides, misleads, reveals, judges,
creates, sends signs, and drowns Pharaoh and his followers.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Children of Adam / men
description: Human beings honored by God, carried by land and sea, provided with
food, summoned at judgment, and addressed regarding belief and unbelief.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Addressed apostle
description: The human apostle addressed with commands to say, pray, recite, announce,
warn, and resist pressure to alter revelation.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:16
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Faithful
description: Those for whom the Koran is healing and mercy.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Wicked / unbelievers
description: Those whose ruin is increased, who refuse belief, demand signs, question
resurrection, and are threatened with Hell.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: The Spirit
description: A being or reality asked about by questioners, said to proceed at the
Lord’s command.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Men and Djinn
description: Groups hypothetically assembled to produce the like of the Koran but
unable to do so.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Angels
description: Requested by unbelievers as vouchers and mentioned as possible angel-apostles
if angels walked the earth.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Moses
description: Recipient of nine clear signs who confronts Pharaoh and attributes
the signs to the Lord of the heavens and earth.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Pharaoh
description: Ruler who calls Moses enchanted, seeks to drive Moses’ people from
the land, and is drowned with his followers.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Children of Israel
description: The people associated with Moses, later told to dwell in the land and
to be brought to judgment with others.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Those given knowledge previously
description: People who fall on their faces worshipping and weeping when the Koran
is recited.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God summons humans, assigns books, gathers the misled at resurrection, and
makes Hell their abode.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:12
- id: role:2
label: revealer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says revelation was sent down and the Koran was sent down in
truth and piecemeal.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:16
- id: role:3
label: divine punisher and deliverer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God can send a storm and drown the thankless; Pharaoh and his followers are
drowned after seeking to drive others out.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:15
- id: role:4
label: honored humanity
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The children of Adam are honored, carried by land and sea, and provided with
good things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: judged humans
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: All men are summoned with their leaders, and some receive their book in the
right hand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: human apostle and reciter
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The addressed figure is commanded to say he is a man and apostle and is instructed
to recite the Koran slowly to men.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:16
- id: role:7
label: recipients of mercy
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Koran is called healing and mercy to the faithful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: unbelieving opponents
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They demand signs, reject resurrection, and receive punishment for rejecting
signs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:9
label: mysterious divine-command entity
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Spirit is said to proceed at the Lord’s command, while human knowledge
of it is limited.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: incapable challengers to revelation
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Even assembled together, men and Djinn cannot produce the like of the Koran.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:11
label: heavenly witnesses or messengers
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Unbelievers ask for angels as vouchers, and the reply says angel-apostles
would be sent if angels dwelt on earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:12
label: sign-bearing prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Moses receives nine clear signs and confronts Pharaoh.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:13
label: oppressive ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Pharaoh rejects Moses, seeks to drive Moses’ people out, and is drowned with
his followers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: role:14
label: people settled after oppression
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: After Pharaoh’s death, the children of Israel are told to dwell in the land.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: role:15
label: humble recognizers of revelation
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Those previously given knowledge fall on their faces worshipping and weeping
when the Koran is recited.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: sea as site of divine danger
literal_form: sea, storm blast, drowning
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: book in the right hand
literal_form: book given into the right hand and read at judgment
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: blindness and wandering
literal_form: blindness here and hereafter; wandering from the way
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: daybreak reading
literal_form: daybreak reading with witnesses
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: fountain and rivers demanded as signs
literal_form: fountain from the earth; garden with palm-trees, grapes, and rivers
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- water
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:6
label: ascent with readable book
literal_form: mounting into Heaven and sending down a book to read
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:7
label: Hell fire rekindled
literal_form: Hell as abode; fires die down and flame is rekindled
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:8
label: bones and dust
literal_form: bones and dust questioned as capable of being raised as a new creation
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:9
label: nine clear signs
literal_form: nine clear signs given to Moses
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:10
label: prostration with weeping
literal_form: falling on faces worshipping and weeping
associated_figures:
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Warning of drowning at sea
summary: The passage warns that God can return the thankless to sea, send a storm
blast, and drown them without any helper against Him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Human honor and future judgment
summary: Humanity is honored and sustained in the present world, but all people
will later be summoned with their leaders and judged by their books.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Protection of the apostle from compromise
summary: Opponents nearly draw the addressed apostle away from revelation, but God
settles him and warns that leaning toward them would bring woe in life and death.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Prayer, night vigil, and invocation
summary: The addressed apostle is commanded to observe prayer, watch in the night,
hope for a glorious station, and pray for right entry, right exit, and divine
aid.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Revelation as truth, healing, and inimitable speech
summary: The Koran is described as the coming of truth, healing and mercy for the
faithful, ruin for the wicked, and impossible for men and Djinn to imitate.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Question about the Spirit
summary: When asked about the Spirit, the answer says it proceeds at the Lord’s
command and that only a little knowledge has been given.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:7
label: Demands for miraculous signs
summary: Unbelievers demand earthly, heavenly, angelic, material, and textual signs
before believing, while the reply stresses the apostle’s human status.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:8
label: Resurrection and punishment
summary: The misled are gathered on the day of resurrection on their faces, blind,
dumb, and deaf, and assigned to rekindled Hell fire; their denial of resurrection
from bones and dust is answered by reference to creation.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: scene:9
label: Moses, Pharaoh, and drowning
summary: Moses receives nine signs and confronts Pharaoh; Pharaoh calls him enchanted
and tries to drive the people out, but Pharaoh and his followers are drowned,
and Israel is told to dwell in the land.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: scene:10
label: Gradual recitation and humble response
summary: The Koran is sent down in sections to be recited slowly, and those previously
given knowledge fall on their faces worshipping and weeping when it is recited.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment by record and bodily condition
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage describes all people summoned with leaders, books given into
the right hand, the blind being blind hereafter, and the misled gathered at resurrection
for Hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives judgment images but does not provide a full afterlife
itinerary.
- id: motif:2
label: resurrection from bones and dust
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The wicked question whether bones and dust will be raised as a new creation,
and the reply affirms divine creative power.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is stated polemically in response to denial.
- id: motif:3
label: ascent to heaven demanded as proof
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Opponents demand that the apostle mount up into Heaven and send down a readable
book before they will believe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage reports a demanded sign, not an accomplished ascent.
- id: motif:4
label: scriptural inimitability and revealed wisdom
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Men and Djinn cannot produce the like of the Koran, the text contains similitudes,
and only a little knowledge is given regarding the Spirit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage emphasizes revelation more
than wisdom as a narrative quest.
- id: motif:5
label: divine punishment by water
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage warns of drowning at sea and recounts Pharaoh and his followers
being drowned after seeking to expel others.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:15
confidence: high
cautions: This is not presented as a universal flood or renewal episode in the passage.
- id: motif:6
label: prophet challenged to produce signs
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Opponents demand a fountain, garden with rivers, falling heaven, divine and
angelic witnesses, a gold house, ascent to Heaven, and a readable book.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The demands are listed as unbelieving challenges rather than fulfilled
wonders.
- id: motif:7
label: humble recognition of revelation
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Those previously given knowledge fall on their faces worshipping and weeping
when the Koran is recited.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not identify these people beyond saying they had prior
knowledge.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 10221-10223
quote_or_summary: God may cause the addressees to return to sea, send a storm blast,
and drown them for thanklessness, with no helper against Him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 10225-10227
quote_or_summary: The children of Adam are honored, carried by land and sea, provided
with good food, and endowed beyond many creatures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 10229-10231
quote_or_summary: All men will be summoned with their leaders; those whose book
is given into the right hand will read it and not be wronged.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 10233-10234
quote_or_summary: Whoever is blind here will be blind hereafter and wander farther
from the way.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 10236-10248
quote_or_summary: Opponents nearly beguile the addressed apostle from revelation;
God settles him, warns of woe in life and death if he leaned toward them, and
notes attempts to drive him from the land.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 10252-10258
quote_or_summary: Prayer is commanded from sunset into night and at daybreak; night
watch is added, with hope of a glorious station and a prayer for perfect entry,
perfect forthcoming, and helping power.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 10260-10268
quote_or_summary: Truth comes and falsehood vanishes; the Koran is sent down as
healing and mercy to the faithful but adds to the ruin of the wicked.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 10270-10275
quote_or_summary: When asked about the Spirit, the answer says the Spirit proceeds
at the Lord’s command and that only a little knowledge is given.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 10279-10284
quote_or_summary: Even if men and Djinn assembled and helped one another, they could
not produce the like of the Koran; the Koran contains many similitudes, but most
refuse belief.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 10286-10296
quote_or_summary: 'Opponents say they will not believe unless the apostle produces
signs: a fountain, a garden with rivers, falling heaven, God and angels as vouchers,
a gold house, ascent to Heaven, or a sent-down readable book; the reply asks whether
he is more than a man and apostle.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 10298-10303
quote_or_summary: The passage answers the objection to a human apostle by saying
that if angels walked the earth, an angel-apostle would be sent from Heaven.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 10305-10309
quote_or_summary: Those whom God misleads will have no assistant; they will be gathered
at resurrection on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf; Hell will be their abode,
and its flame rekindled.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 10311-10317
quote_or_summary: The punishment is for rejecting signs and asking whether bones
and dust will become a new creation; God who created heavens and earth is able
to create their like and has ordained a term.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 10321-10327
quote_or_summary: Moses receives nine clear signs; Pharaoh calls him enchanted,
and Moses says only the Lord of the heavens and earth sent down the signs and
calls Pharaoh lost.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 10329-10335
quote_or_summary: Pharaoh seeks to drive them out of the land, but God drowns Pharaoh
and his followers; afterward the children of Israel are told to dwell in the land
and later be brought to judgment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 10335-10351
quote_or_summary: The Koran is sent down in truth and in sections for slow recitation;
those previously given knowledge fall on their faces worshipping and weeping when
it is recited, and their humility increases.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels are cautious
and limited to directly attested narrative or symbolic patterns; no external comparison
claims were added.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-29'
notes: |-
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