batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l15635-l15756
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l15635-l15756
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 15635-15756
start: '15635'
end: '15756'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an), Rodwell translation
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: Unto Him shall ye return, all together
summary: The passage describes return to God, divine reward and punishment, cosmic
signs in sun, moon, night and day, human forgetfulness after distress, destroyed
prior generations, refusal to alter revelation, denunciation of other deities,
rescue from danger at sea, the transience of worldly life through a rain-and-crop
image, the abode of peace for the righteous, and a final gathering where false
gods deny responsibility and every soul is brought back to God.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: All are said to return to God, who produces a creature and causes it to return
again for reward or punishment.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The sun is appointed for brightness and the moon for light, with stations
used to learn years and reckon time.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Alternations of night and day and created things in the heavens and earth
are called signs for those who fear God.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Those who do not hope to meet God are assigned the fire, while believers and
doers of right are described in gardens with rivers flowing at their feet.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: A person in trouble calls upon God in various postures, but after the trouble
is withdrawn passes on as if he had not called.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Earlier generations are said to have been destroyed after wicked conduct and
rejection of apostles with clear tokens; later people succeed them on the earth.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Some hear the clear signs and ask for a different Koran or changes to it;
the instructed reply is that the speaker follows only what is revealed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Some worship beings beside God and call them advocates with God; the passage
denies that these beings can hurt or help them.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Travel by land and sea is described; in ships, people rejoice in a favorable
breeze, then call sincerely on God when storm and waves surround them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: After rescue from sea-danger, the people commit unrighteous excesses on the
earth.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Present life is compared to water sent down from heaven that makes the earth
flourish until a divine behest makes it as if mown.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: At a final gathering, those who added gods to God are separated from those
gods, and the gods deny caring for their worship.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:13
text: Every soul is said to prove what it sent before and to be brought back to
God, while devised deities vanish.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: God is described as supplying from heaven and earth, having power over hearing
and sight, bringing forth living from dead and dead from living, and ruling all
things.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine actor who creates, returns creatures, rewards, punishes,
appoints cosmic order, sends signs, rescues, guides, gathers, and rules all things.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Believers and doers of right
description: Those who believe and do right, are guided because of faith, and are
placed in gardens of delight or Paradise.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Infidels, wicked, transgressors, or those heedless of signs
description: Those who do not believe, do not hope to meet God, heedlessly rest
in worldly life, or act wickedly.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:10
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: People in distress at sea
description: Travelers who board ships, rejoice in favorable wind, then call on
God when storm and waves encompass them.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Apostles
description: Messengers who came to earlier generations with clear tokens of their
mission.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: The addressed reciter or messenger
description: The speaker commanded to say that he cannot change the Koran by his
own prompting and follows only what is revealed.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Those who add gods to God
description: People who worship beside God and call other beings their advocates
with God.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Added gods or devised deities
description: Beings worshipped beside God, described as unable to hurt or help;
at the gathering they deny receiving service and vanish from their worshippers.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Every soul
description: Each soul brought to account for what it sent on before and brought
back to God.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
roles:
- id: role:1
label: creator, provider, guide, rescuer, and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God produces creatures, orders celestial signs, guides, rescues from danger,
gathers all, and rules all things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:2
label: righteous recipients of guidance and paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Believers and doers of right are guided, receive goodness, and abide in Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: punished unbelievers or wrongdoers
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Infidels and evildoers receive boiling draught, torment, fire, shame, and
recompense for deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: role:4
label: petitioners in peril and forgetful after rescue
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Ship travelers call sincerely on God during storm and promise thankfulness,
then commit excesses after rescue.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: messengers with clear tokens
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Apostles are said to have come to earlier generations with clear tokens of
their mission.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: recipient and reciter of revelation
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The speaker says he follows only what is revealed and cannot change it by
his own soul's prompting.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: worshippers of additional deities
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: They worship beside God and identify other beings as advocates with God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: role:8
label: false advocates who deny worshippers
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The added gods are said to lack power to hurt or help and later deny concern
for the worship offered to them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: role:9
label: accountable soul
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Every soul makes proof of what it sent before and is brought back to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: fire as abode and punishment
literal_form: fire
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: sym:2
label: boiling draught
literal_form: boiling drink assigned to unbelievers
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: rivers and gardens of delight
literal_form: rivers flowing at the feet of believers in gardens
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: sun and moon as measures of time
literal_form: sun, moon, and lunar stations
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: night and day alternation
literal_form: alternations of night and day
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:6
label: ship in storm at sea
literal_form: ships, favorable breeze, tempestuous gale, and surrounding billows
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: rain-water and mown earth
literal_form: water sent down from heaven, flourishing earth, then earth made as
if mown
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:8
label: darkened faces
literal_form: faces darkened with deep murk of night
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:9
label: living and dead
literal_form: living brought from the dead and dead from the living
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Return to God and recompense
summary: All are said to return to God; believers are rewarded with equity and infidels
receive boiling draught and torment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Cosmic signs and reckoning of time
summary: God appoints the sun and moon and their stations for reckoning time; night,
day, heavens, and earth are signs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Contrasting abodes of fire and gardens
summary: Those heedless of signs receive fire, while believers are guided into gardens
with rivers and utter praise, peace, and glory.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Trouble, prayer, relief, and forgetfulness
summary: A man calls upon God when trouble touches him, then after relief behaves
as if he had not called.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Destroyed generations and succession
summary: Earlier wicked generations reject apostles and are destroyed; later people
succeed them on earth to show how they will act.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Demand to change revelation
summary: Some ask for a different or changed Koran, and the addressed speaker replies
that he follows only what is revealed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Other deities as supposed advocates
summary: Some worship beings beside God and call them advocates, but the passage
denies their power and exalts God above them.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Peril at sea and rescue
summary: Ship travelers rejoice in favorable wind, face storm and billows, call
sincerely on God for rescue, then after rescue commit excesses.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:9
label: Worldly life as rain-fed flourishing and sudden mowing
summary: The present life is compared to rain-water that makes earth flourish until
a divine command leaves it as if mown.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:10
label: Abode of peace, paradise, shame, and fire
summary: God calls to the abode of peace; doers of good receive goodness and Paradise,
while evildoers receive shame, darkened faces, and fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:11
label: Final gathering and denial by added gods
summary: On the day of gathering, those who added gods are separated from those
gods; the gods deny their worshippers, every soul is tested, and devised deities
vanish.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:12
label: Provider and ruler of living and dead
summary: The passage asks who supplies from heaven and earth, controls hearing and
sight, brings living from dead and dead from living, and rules all things; the
answer is God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Return to God with reward and punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage says all return to God and contrasts reward for believers with
torment for unbelievers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes return and judgment; the exact mechanics of bodily
resurrection are not detailed in this excerpt.
- id: motif:2
label: Cosmic order as divine signs
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Sun, moon, lunar stations, night and day, heavens and earth are presented
as signs for those who understand or fear God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference to wisdom is broad; the passage frames the signs
as understanding and fear rather than a wisdom quest narrative.
- id: motif:3
label: Prayer in danger followed by forgetfulness after rescue
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Humans call upon God in trouble or sea-storm and promise thankfulness, but
after relief or rescue return to ordinary or excessive conduct.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family precisely matches this recurrent pattern.
- id: motif:4
label: Ephemeral worldly flourishing destroyed suddenly
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: Present life is likened to rain that makes the earth flourish until a command
comes by night or day and leaves it as if mown.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The image uses seasonal growth and cutting, but the main function is moral
instruction on worldly transience.
- id: motif:5
label: False divine advocates repudiated at judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Added gods are treated as powerless advocates and, at the gathering, deny
concern for the worship directed to them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is polemical against worship beside God; it does not identify
the deities by name.
- id: motif:6
label: Living from dead and dead from living
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
- resurrection
basis: The passage asks who brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from
the living, with God as the acknowledged answer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The phrase supports a life-death reversal pattern, but the immediate context
is a rhetorical proof of divine power and rule.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 15635-15640
quote_or_summary: '"Unto Him shall ye return, all together"; God produces a creature,
causes it to return, rewards believers, and assigns unbelievers boiling draught
and torment.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 15642-15651
quote_or_summary: God appoints sun and moon, lunar stations, the reckoning of years,
and the alternation of night and day as signs in heavens and earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 15653-15665
quote_or_summary: Those satisfied with worldly life and heedless of signs have the
fire as abode; believers are guided to gardens where rivers flow and they utter
praise, peace, and glory.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 15667-15675
quote_or_summary: When trouble touches a man he calls on God lying, sitting, or
standing; after trouble is removed he passes on as though he had not called.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 15677-15684
quote_or_summary: Earlier wicked generations were destroyed after rejecting apostles
with clear tokens; later people are made successors on earth to see how they act.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 15686-15696
quote_or_summary: When clear signs are recited, some ask for a different or changed
Koran; the instructed reply says the speaker follows only revelation and fears
punishment for rebellion.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 15698-15713
quote_or_summary: Some worship beside God what cannot hurt or help them and call
them advocates with God; the hidden is said to belong only to God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 15715-15729
quote_or_summary: God enables travel by land and sea; ship travelers rejoice in
favorable breeze, fear tempest and waves, call sincerely for rescue, then after
rescue commit excesses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 15731-15739
quote_or_summary: Present life is compared to water sent from heaven that mingles
with earth's produce until the earth is adorned, then a divine behest leaves it
as if mown.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 15741-15750
quote_or_summary: God calls to the abode of peace and guides whom he will; doers
of good receive goodness and Paradise, while evildoers receive shame, darkened
faces, and fire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 15752-15768
quote_or_summary: On the day of gathering, those who added gods are separated from
them; the gods deny concern for worship, every soul proves what it sent before,
and devised deities vanish.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 15770-15756
quote_or_summary: The passage asks who supplies from heaven and earth, has power
over hearing and sight, brings living from dead and dead from living, and rules
all things; the expected answer is God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized; locator reflects supplied end
range despite excerpt continuation.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Line locators are approximate
within the provided range; the final evidence segment appears to extend beyond
the stated end-line in the pasted excerpt, so human verification is needed.
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: |-
No external comparisons were added. Taxonomy references were limited to supplied motif families and symbols where directly supported by the passage.
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