batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l13162-l13287
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l13162-l13287
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 13162-13287
start: '13162'
end: '13287'
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 recalls earlier peoples who rejected prophets, states that
God will destroy wicked rejecters and settle believers after them, describes eschatological
punishment and reward, gives parables of a good and evil word as trees, enumerates
divine provisions in creation, and presents Abraham praying for security, freedom
from idolatry, provision for his offspring near the holy house, constancy in prayer,
and forgiveness on the day of account.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Earlier peoples, including the people of Noah, Ad, and Themoud, are named
as recipients of prophetic messages.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The earlier peoples reject the prophets' message, say they do not believe,
and demand clear proof.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The prophets describe themselves as men like their hearers and say that any
special proof comes only by God's leave.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The unbelievers threaten to drive the apostles from the land unless the apostles
return to their religion.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: God reveals that the wicked will be destroyed and that the apostles or believers
will dwell in the land after them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: A proud rebellious figure is described as perishing and facing Hell, tainted
water, death that assails without ending life, and grievous torment.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The works of unbelievers are compared to ashes scattered by wind on a stormy
day.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: All mankind is described as coming forth before God, where weak followers
address men of might about relief from divine vengeance.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: After doom is given, Satan says that he deceived those who answered his call
and tells them to blame themselves, not him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Believers who do right are brought into gardens beneath which rivers flow,
where they remain forever and are greeted with peace.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: A good word is likened to a good tree with firm roots, branches in heaven,
and fruit in all seasons.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: An evil word is likened to an evil tree torn from the earth and unable to
stand.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: 'The passage lists divine provisions: creation of heavens and earth, water
from heaven, fruits, ships, rivers, sun, moon, day, and night.'
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: Abraham asks God to make the land secure and to turn him and his children
away from serving idols.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: Abraham says he has settled some offspring in an unfruitful valley near God's
holy house so they may observe prayer, and he asks for hearts to yearn toward
them and for fruits to be supplied.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:16
text: Abraham praises God for giving him Ismael and Isaac in old age and asks that
he and his posterity observe prayer and receive forgiveness on the day of account.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Earlier peoples
description: The people of Noah, Ad, Themoud, and other later peoples known to God.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Prophets or apostles
description: Messengers sent to earlier peoples with proofs of their mission; they
counsel trust in God and patience under harm.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: Creator of heavens and earth, sender of prophets, giver of guidance
and provision, judge, destroyer of wicked doers, and granter of reward and forgiveness.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:11
- ev:14
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Unbelievers, wicked doers, and proud rebellious ones
description: Those who reject the message, threaten the apostles, set up compeers
with God, and are associated with Hell, fire, and grievous torment.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:15
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Believers / faithful servants
description: Those who trust in God, endure harm, do right, observe prayer, give
alms, and are promised gardens beneath which rivers flow.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:8
- ev:16
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Weak followers
description: People who followed men of might and ask whether those leaders can
relieve any part of God's vengeance.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Men of might
description: Leaders addressed by weak followers after mankind comes before God;
they say there is no escape.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Satan
description: A deceiver who says he promised falsely, only called people, and had
no power over them.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Abraham
description: A speaker who prays for a secure land, avoidance of idols, blessing
for his offspring near the holy house, constancy in prayer, and forgiveness.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Abraham's children, offspring, and posterity
description: Those for whom Abraham prays; some are settled in an unfruitful valley
near the holy house; Ismael and Isaac are named as sons given in Abraham's old
age.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Prophetic messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The prophets or apostles come with proofs, speak on God's behalf, and counsel
trust in God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: Rejecters of message
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:4
basis: The earlier peoples and unbelievers say they do not believe the message and
demand proof.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: Divine creator and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: God is named as maker of heavens and earth, before whom mankind comes, and
the one whose vengeance and judgment are feared.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: Righteous rewarded group
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Those who believe and do right are brought into gardens beneath rivers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: Enduring faithful
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:5
basis: The prophets say they will bear harm with constancy and trust in God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: Judged wicked group
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The passage says wicked doers are destroyed and face Hell, fire, and torment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:15
- id: role:7
label: Divine provider
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: God sends water, brings fruits, subjects ships, rivers, sun, moon, day, and
night for human benefit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:8
label: Dependent followers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The weak state that they were followers of the men of might.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: Failed leaders
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The men of might cannot relieve followers and declare that there is no escape.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:10
label: Deceiver and disavower
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Satan says he deceived people, had no power over them, and cannot aid them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: Supplicant patriarch
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Abraham addresses God in prayers for land, descendants, prayer, provision,
and forgiveness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: role:12
label: Descendants under prayer
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Abraham prays for his children, offspring, and posterity, including those
settled near the holy house.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Tree
literal_form: A good tree with firm root, branches in heaven, and fruit in all seasons;
an evil tree torn from the earth and unable to stand.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: sym:2
label: Water
literal_form: Tainted water drunk in Hell; water sent down from heaven; rivers beneath
gardens and rivers subjected to human use.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- ev:11
- id: sym:3
label: Fire
literal_form: Hell and the fire into which those who set up compeers with God are
said to go.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:4
label: Ashes scattered by wind
literal_form: Works of unbelievers likened to ashes scattered by wind on a stormy
day.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: Gardens beneath rivers
literal_form: Gardens with rivers flowing beneath them, where right-doing believers
abide forever.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: Holy house
literal_form: A holy house near an unfruitful valley where some of Abraham's offspring
are settled.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:7
label: Idols and compeers
literal_form: Idols from which Abraham asks to be turned aside, and compeers set
up with God to mislead.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:15
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Earlier peoples reject prophets
summary: The people of Noah, Ad, Themoud, and later peoples receive prophets with
proofs, reject their message, and demand a clear proof.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Threat, divine judgment, and land inheritance
summary: Unbelievers threaten to expel the apostles or compel religious return;
God reveals destruction for wicked doers and dwelling in the land afterward for
those who dread judgment.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Hell and futile works
summary: The proud rebellious one perishes and faces Hell, tainted water, unending
assault by death, and grievous torment; unbelievers' works are likened to wind-scattered
ashes.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Eschatological dispute before God
summary: All mankind comes before God; weak followers and men of might exchange
words about divine vengeance; after doom, Satan disavows power over those he deceived.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Reward of believers
summary: Believers who do right are brought into enduring gardens beneath flowing
rivers, where their greeting is peace.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: Parable of good and evil words as trees
summary: A good word is compared to a firmly rooted fruiting tree reaching heaven,
while an evil word is compared to an uprooted tree without strength to stand.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Divine provision in creation
summary: God is described as creating heavens and earth, sending water, producing
fruits, and subjecting ships, rivers, sun, moon, day, and night to human use.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:8
label: Abraham's prayer for land and descendants
summary: Abraham prays for the land to be secure, for himself and his children to
avoid idols, for settled offspring near the holy house to receive yearning hearts
and fruits, and for prayer and forgiveness on the day of account.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Rejected messengers followed by divine judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage recounts earlier peoples rejecting prophets, threatening expulsion,
and receiving a divine declaration that the wicked will be destroyed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents the pattern didactically rather than as a full narrative
for each named people.
- id: motif:2
label: Righteous inherit land after wicked are removed
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: God says the wicked will be destroyed and that others will dwell in the land
after them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The identity of those who dwell in the land is implied by the address
to apostles and God-fearing hearers, but not elaborated in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: Final assembly and judgment after death
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- resurrection
basis: All mankind comes forth before God, doom is given, Satan disavows his followers,
and the passage contrasts torment with gardens for believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives scenes of judgment and afterlife outcome, not a detailed
journey map.
- id: motif:4
label: Hellish torment with impossible relief
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The proud rebellious one is made to drink tainted water, is assailed by death
on every side but does not die, and faces grievous torment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is an eschatological punishment image rather than a developed underworld
itinerary.
- id: motif:5
label: Paradisal garden with flowing rivers
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Right-doing believers are brought into gardens beneath which rivers flow
and remain there forever by permission of their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy lacks a specific paradise-garden category; resurrection is
used for the afterlife context.
- id: motif:6
label: Word as rooted or uprooted tree
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- sacred_tree_axis
basis: The passage explicitly likens a good word to a rooted tree with branches
in heaven and an evil word to an uprooted tree.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The image is explicitly a similitude; assigning sacred_tree_axis is tentative
because the passage does not call the tree a cosmic axis.
- id: motif:7
label: Divine provision through ordered cosmos
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: God creates, sends water, brings fruits, and subjects natural and navigational
elements to human benefit, while humans are told to pray and give alms.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes provision and gratitude more than a reciprocal
exchange structure.
- id: motif:8
label: Patriarchal prayer for descendants near a holy place
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: Abraham prays for security, freedom from idols, provision, prayer observance,
and forgiveness for his offspring settled near the holy house.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The word covenant is not used in the excerpt; the motif identification
is based on prayer for descendants and divine relationship.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: 'The passage itself groups several earlier peoples into a recurring pattern:
prophets come with proofs, the people reject them, and divine judgment follows.'
claim_level: same_function
target: Prophetic warning-rejection-judgment pattern among the people of Noah, Ad,
Themoud, and later unnamed peoples
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The excerpt names the peoples collectively and does not narrate each
group's episode separately.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: 13162-13170
quote_or_summary: The story is said to concern those before, including “the people
of Noah, and Ad, and Themoud”; their prophets came with proofs and they answered
that they did not believe.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 13171-13184
quote_or_summary: The prophets ask whether there can be doubt about God, maker of
heavens and earth; the people call them merely men like themselves and demand
clear proof; the apostles say proof comes only by God's leave.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 13185-13197
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers threaten to drive the apostles from their land or
make them return to their religion; God reveals that wicked doers will be destroyed
and that others will dwell in the land after them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: 13198-13205
quote_or_summary: "“Hell is before him”; he is made to drink tainted water, death
assails him on every side, yet he does not die, and grievous torment lies before
him."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: 13206-13209
quote_or_summary: The works of unbelievers are “like ashes which the wind scattereth
on a stormy day.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 13214-13221
quote_or_summary: All mankind comes forth before God; weak followers ask men of
might to relieve some divine vengeance, but the leaders say there is no escape.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 13222-13230
quote_or_summary: After doom is given, Satan says God's promise was true, his own
promise was deceitful, he only called people and they answered, and neither side
can aid the other.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: 13231-13234
quote_or_summary: Believers who do right are brought into “gardens beneath which
the rivers flow” and their greeting there is “Peace.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: 13235-13240
quote_or_summary: 'A good word is likened to “a good tree: its root firmly fixed,
and its branches in the Heaven,” yielding fruit in all seasons.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:10
type: quote
locator: 13241-13244
quote_or_summary: An evil word is “like an evil tree torn up from the face of the
earth, and without strength to stand.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: 13256-13267
quote_or_summary: God creates heavens and earth, sends down water, brings forth
fruits, subjects ships and rivers, and subjects the sun, moon, day, and night
to human benefit.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: 13268-13274
quote_or_summary: Abraham says, “O Lord make this land secure,” and asks that he
and his children be turned aside from serving idols.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: 13275-13281
quote_or_summary: Abraham says he settled some offspring in an unfruitful valley
near God's holy house so they may observe prayer, and asks that people’s hearts
yearn toward them and that they be supplied with fruits.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: 13282-13287
quote_or_summary: Abraham says God gave him Ismael and Isaac in old age and asks
that he and his posterity observe prayer and receive forgiveness with the faithful
on the day of account.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: 13249-13255
quote_or_summary: Those who repay God's goodness with infidelity sink their people
into Hell; those who set up compeers with God are told their going hence will
be into the fire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: 13255-13256
quote_or_summary: Believing servants are instructed to observe prayer and give alms
from what God has supplied before a day with neither traffic nor friendship.
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. Some motif taxonomy assignments
are approximate where the available taxonomy lacks exact categories for paradise,
prophetic rejection, or patriarchal prayer.
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'
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