batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l19103-l19221
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label: PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. /
PREFACE; lines 19103-19221
start: '19103'
end: '19221'
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: ''
summary: The passage warns against sorcery attributed to Satans and to the teaching
associated with Harut and Marut, instructs believers in proper speech and obedience,
affirms God's sovereignty, disputes claims of exclusive salvation and divine sonship,
describes judgment and resurrection, recalls Israel's favor and accountability,
and recounts Abraham's trial, covenant, association with the Holy House, prayer
with Ismael, and request for a future apostle to teach the Book and Wisdom.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage says people followed what the Satans read in Solomon's reign,
while denying that Solomon was unbelieving.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Sorcery is described as taught to men, including what had been revealed to
the two angels Harut and Marut at Babel.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Harut and Marut are said not to teach anyone until first warning, 'We are
only a temptation. Be not then an unbeliever.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Men learn from the two how to cause division between man and wife, but the
passage states that harm occurs only by God's leave.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The passage states that those who bought the art have no part in the life
to come, and contrasts this with the reward from God for belief and fear of God.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Believers are instructed not to address the apostle with one expression but
with another, and to attend to the instruction.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says God may cancel or cause verses to be forgotten and bring
a better or similar one, because God has power over all things.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The dominion of the heavens and earth is assigned to God, and no patron or
helper is said to exist apart from God.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The passage refers to asking the apostle what was formerly asked of Moses
and describes exchange of faith for unbelief as error from the even way.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: The passage reports disputes among Jews and Christians and says God will judge
between them on the resurrection day.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: The passage says the East and West belong to God and that whichever way one
turns, there is the face of God.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:12
text: The passage rejects the statement that God has a son and affirms that whatever
is in the heavens and earth belongs to Him and obeys Him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:13
text: God is described as maker of the heavens and earth, whose decree is expressed
as saying 'Be,' after which the thing is.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:14
text: The apostle is described as sent with the Truth, as a bearer of good tidings
and a warner.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:15
text: The children of Israel are told to remember God's favor and to dread a day
when no soul can satisfy for another, no ransom is accepted, no intercession avails,
and no help is given.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:16
text: Abraham is tried by his Lord with commands, fulfills them, and is told he
will be made an Imam to mankind; the covenant is said not to embrace evildoers.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:17
text: The Holy House is appointed as a resort and safe retreat, and the station
of Abraham is named as a place of prayer.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:18
text: Abraham and Ismael are commanded to purify God's house for procession, devotion,
bowing, and prostration.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:19
text: Abraham asks for the land to be secure and for its believing people to be
supplied with fruits; unbelievers are granted temporary goods before being driven
to the torment of the Fire.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:20
text: Abraham and Ismael raise the foundations of the House and ask God to accept
it from them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:21
text: Abraham and Ismael ask that they and their posterity be made Muslims, that
holy rites be taught, and that an apostle be raised to rehearse signs, teach the
Book and Wisdom, and purify them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Satans
description: Beings said to have read or recited material in Solomon's reign and
to have taught sorcery to men.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Solomon
description: A royal figure in whose reign the Satans' reading is located; the passage
explicitly denies that he was unbelieving.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Harut and Marut
description: Two angels at Babel associated with a revealed teaching and with warning
learners that they are a temptation.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: men who learn the art
description: Human learners who acquire knowledge that can divide man and wife and
that harms rather than profits them.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: God
description: Sovereign over the heavens and earth; giver of mercy and reward; judge
on the resurrection day; maker by decree; covenant-maker with Abraham.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:17
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: the apostle
description: The addressed messenger, instructed in speech formulas and described
as sent with Truth, good tidings, and warning.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:13
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: believers
description: Those addressed with instructions about speech, prayer, legal impost,
forgiveness, and Godward resignation.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:20
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: people of the Book
description: A group including Jews and Christians, described as disputing, desiring
to draw believers back, and reading the Book.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:20
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Jews
description: One of the disputing groups who say Christians lean on nothing and
who are said not to be satisfied unless the apostle follows their religion.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:21
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Christians
description: One of the disputing groups who say Jews lean on nothing and who are
said not to be satisfied unless the apostle follows their religion.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:21
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Moses
description: Earlier figure referenced in connection with a prior request made of
him.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: children of Israel
description: Group addressed as recipients of God's favor and warned to dread a
day of strict accountability.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Abraham
description: Figure tested by commands, made an Imam to mankind, linked with the
covenant, the Holy House, secure land, foundations of the House, and prayers for
posterity and a future apostle.
role_refs:
- role:13
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
- ev:19
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Ismael
description: Figure commanded with Abraham to purify God's house and later raising
the foundations of the House with Abraham.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
- ev:19
roles:
- id: role:1
label: unbelieving sorcery-teachers
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says the Satans were unbelieving and taught sorcery to men.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: exonerated king or prophet-figure
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage locates the tradition in Solomon's reign but denies Solomon's
unbelief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: warning tempters or test-figures
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Harut and Marut are said to teach only after warning that they are a temptation
and that the learner should not be an unbeliever.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: learners of harmful knowledge
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Learners acquire what can divide spouses and what harms rather than profits
them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: sovereign creator
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: God is said to possess the dominion of heavens and earth and to create by
decree.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:12
- id: role:6
label: judge of disputes and souls
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: God is said to judge between disputing groups on resurrection day and to
preside over the day when ransom and intercession do not avail.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:14
- id: role:7
label: covenant-giver
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: God tells Abraham that His covenant does not embrace evildoers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: role:8
label: messenger, bearer of good tidings, and warner
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The apostle is described as sent with Truth, bearing good tidings and warning.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:9
label: addressed community of obedience
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Believers are directly instructed in forms of address, prayer, and other
conduct.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:20
- id: role:10
label: scriptural disputants
assigned_to:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
basis: The passage reports reciprocal claims between Jews and Christians and says
both are readers of the Book.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:11
label: earlier recipient of demands
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The passage refers to what was formerly asked of Moses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:12
label: favored yet accountable people
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Children of Israel are told to remember favor and dread the day of judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:13
label: tested patriarch and Imam
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: Abraham fulfills divine commands and is told he will be made an Imam to mankind.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: role:14
label: sanctuary builders and purifiers
assigned_to:
- fig:13
- fig:14
basis: Abraham and Ismael are commanded to purify the House and raise its foundations
while praying for acceptance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: sorcery as harmful learned art
literal_form: sorcery / art learned from Satans and from Harut and Marut
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: Babel
literal_form: place where Harut and Marut are located
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: Book
literal_form: scriptural book read by disputing groups and taught by the requested
apostle
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:19
- id: sym:4
label: East and West
literal_form: directions belonging to God
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:5
label: face of God
literal_form: the divine face present whichever way one turns
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:6
label: resurrection day
literal_form: day when God judges disputes
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:7
label: day without ransom or intercession
literal_form: day when no soul satisfies for another, no ransom is accepted, no
intercession avails, and none are helped
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:8
label: covenant
literal_form: God's covenant, said not to embrace evildoers
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:9
label: Holy House
literal_form: sanctuary appointed as a resort and safe retreat
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:13
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
- id: sym:10
label: station of Abraham
literal_form: place of prayer associated with Abraham
associated_figures:
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: sym:11
label: Fire
literal_form: torment of the Fire
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: sym:12
label: foundations of the House
literal_form: foundations raised by Abraham and Ismael
associated_figures:
- fig:13
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: sym:13
label: Wisdom
literal_form: Wisdom taught by the requested apostle
associated_figures:
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Teaching of harmful sorcery and warning by Harut and Marut
summary: The passage describes Satans teaching sorcery and men learning from Harut
and Marut after a warning that the two are a temptation; the learned art can divide
spouses and harms its buyers in relation to the life to come.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Instruction and opposition around the apostle
summary: Believers are instructed how to address the apostle, while unbelievers
and some people of the Book are described as opposing good sent from God or desiring
believers' return to unbelief.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:20
- id: scene:3
label: Divine sovereignty, revelation, and guidance
summary: God is said to replace or cancel verses, possess the heavens and earth,
provide guidance, and serve as the only patron and helper.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:21
- id: scene:4
label: Disputes over salvation and judgment
summary: Jews and Christians dispute one another and claims of exclusive entry into
Paradise are challenged; God is said to judge between them on resurrection day.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:22
- id: scene:5
label: Universal divine presence and denial of divine sonship
summary: The passage asserts that the East and West belong to God, that the face
of God is present whichever way one turns, and rejects the claim that God has
a son while affirming universal obedience to Him.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Final accountability of Israel and disputants
summary: Children of Israel are reminded of divine favor and warned of a day when
no substitute, ransom, intercession, or help will avail.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: scene:7
label: Abraham's trial and covenant
summary: Abraham fulfills divine commands, is appointed an Imam to mankind, asks
concerning his offspring, and is told that God's covenant does not include evildoers.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: scene:8
label: Holy House, purification, foundations, and prayer
summary: The Holy House is appointed as a resort and safe retreat; Abraham and Ismael
are commanded to purify it, raise its foundations, and pray for acceptance, rites,
posterity, and a future apostle who teaches the Book and Wisdom.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:12
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
- ev:19
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Forbidden or harmful knowledge taught under warning
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
basis: Sorcery is taught, the teachers warn that they are a temptation, and learners
acquire what harms rather than profits them and endangers their share in the life
to come.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the knowledge as harmful and unbelief-associated; it
does not narrate theft of knowledge.
- id: motif:2
label: Divine judgment at resurrection and final accountability
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- resurrection
basis: God is said to judge disputes on resurrection day, and a day is described
when no soul can satisfy for another, no ransom is accepted, and no intercession
or help avails.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives doctrinal statements rather than a narrated judgment
scene.
- id: motif:3
label: Covenant after patriarchal testing
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
- initiation
basis: Abraham is tried by commands, fulfills them, is appointed an Imam, and receives
a statement about the limits of God's covenant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
confidence: high
cautions: The initiation label is secondary; the passage explicitly supports testing
and covenant more directly.
- id: motif:4
label: Sanctuary foundation and ritual purification
taxonomy_refs:
- world_center
basis: The Holy House is appointed as a resort and safe retreat; Abraham and Ismael
purify it and raise its foundations for prayer, procession, devotion, bowing,
and prostration.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents a sacred sanctuary; 'world center' is an interpretive
taxonomy fit and is not explicitly stated.
- id: motif:5
label: Divine creative command
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: God is described as maker of the heavens and earth whose decree consists
of saying 'Be,' after which the thing is.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: No exact available taxonomy reference fits this motif.
- id: motif:6
label: Universal divine orientation
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The East and West are said to belong to God, and whichever way one turns,
there is the face of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: This is a theological spatial image rather than a full narrative motif.
- id: motif:7
label: Rejection of divine sonship
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_parent_child
basis: The passage reports and rejects the statement that God has a son, affirming
instead that all in the heavens and earth belongs to and obeys Him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference names the broader motif family; this passage uses
it polemically by denying the relationship.
- id: motif:8
label: Apostle as teacher of scripture, wisdom, and purification
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Abraham and Ismael pray for an apostle who will rehearse signs, teach the
Book and Wisdom, and purify the people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents this as a prayer/request, not a narrated fulfillment
within the selected lines.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself places its Abraham, Ismael, Moses, Jews, Christians, and
people of the Book material in relation to earlier or neighboring scriptural communities,
supporting cautious comparison within Abrahamic scriptural traditions.
claim_level: same_function
target: People of the Book and Abrahamic scriptural traditions
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
- ev:19
- ev:21
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage names related communities and figures but does not provide
historical details about textual dependence or contact.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage compares requests made of the apostle with what had been asked
of Moses, indicating a recurring pattern of demands placed on messengers.
claim_level: same_function
target: Earlier request made of Moses
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The content of the earlier request to Moses is not specified in this
excerpt.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage presents Jews and Christians as reciprocal scriptural disputants
and states that God will judge between them, supporting comparison of inter-communal
judgment motifs within the passage's own frame.
claim_level: same_function
target: Jews and Christians as readers of the Book disputing before divine judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the groups and dispute described in the excerpt.
- id: claim:4
claim: The Abraham and Ismael sanctuary-building episode can be cautiously compared
to sacred foundation patterns because the passage describes the raising of foundations,
purification of a house, and institution of rites.
claim_level: same_motif
target: sacred foundation and sanctuary-establishment pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
- ev:19
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not compare this foundation episode to other foundation
myths; the comparison is typological only.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 19103-19107
quote_or_summary: Satans are said to have read in Solomon's reign; Solomon is denied
to be unbelieving; Satans are said to teach sorcery to men and to be connected
with what was revealed to Harut and Marut at Babel.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 19107-19109
quote_or_summary: '"We are only a temptation. Be not then an unbeliever."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 19109-19111
quote_or_summary: Men learn from the two how to cause division between man and wife,
but no one is harmed except by God's leave.
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 19111-19116
quote_or_summary: Learners acquire what harms and does not profit them; the buyer
of the art has no part in the life to come, while belief and fear of God would
bring a better reward.
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 19117-19120
quote_or_summary: Believers are told not to say 'Raina' to the apostle but to say
'Ondhorna' and attend; infidels are threatened with grievous chastisement.
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 19125-19127
quote_or_summary: God may cancel or cause verses to be forgotten and bring a better
or similar one; God has power over all things.
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 19128-19130
quote_or_summary: The dominion of the heavens and earth is God's, and there is no
patron or helper except God.
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 19131-19133
quote_or_summary: The passage asks whether the addressees would ask of the apostle
what was asked of Moses and says exchange of faith for unbelief is error.
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 19145-19150
quote_or_summary: Jews and Christians issue reciprocal claims against one another
although both read the Book; God will judge between them on the resurrection day.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: quote
locator: lines 19155-19156
quote_or_summary: '"The East and the West is God''s: therefore, whichever way ye
turn, there is the face of God."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 19158-19160
quote_or_summary: The claim 'God hath a son' is rejected; whatever is in the heavens
and earth belongs to God and obeys Him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: lines 19161-19162
quote_or_summary: '"when He decreeth a thing, He only saith to it, ''Be,'' and it
is."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 19168-19169
quote_or_summary: The apostle is sent with Truth as a bearer of good tidings and
a warner.
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 19178-19182
quote_or_summary: Children of Israel are reminded of God's favor and warned of a
day when no soul can satisfy for another, no ransom is accepted, no intercession
avails, and none are helped.
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 19183-19186
quote_or_summary: Abraham's Lord tests him with commands; Abraham fulfills them;
God says He will make Abraham an Imam to mankind and that His covenant does not
embrace evildoers.
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 19188-19192
quote_or_summary: The Holy House is appointed as a resort and safe retreat; the
station of Abraham is made a place of prayer; Abraham and Ismael are commanded
to purify God's house for procession, devotion, bowing, and prostration.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: lines 19193-19197
quote_or_summary: Abraham asks that the land be secure and its believing people
supplied with fruits; God grants unbelievers temporary goods before driving them
to the torment of the Fire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 19199-19201
quote_or_summary: Abraham and Ismael raise the foundations of the House and ask
God to accept it from them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 19203-19209
quote_or_summary: Abraham and Ismael ask to be made Muslims with a Muslim posterity,
to be taught holy rites, and for an apostle to arise among them to rehearse signs,
teach the Book and Wisdom, and purify them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: lines 19122-19139
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers among the people of the Book and idolaters do not
desire good to be sent down; many people of the Book desire to bring believers
back to unbelief, but believers are told to forgive and shun them until God's
working comes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:21
type: summary
locator: lines 19170-19176
quote_or_summary: Jews and Christians will not be satisfied unless the apostle follows
their religion; God's guidance is declared to be the guidance, and following their
desires after Knowledge leaves no helper or protector against God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:22
type: summary
locator: lines 19140-19144
quote_or_summary: A claim that only Jews or Christians enter Paradise is called
a wish and challenged with a demand for proof; those who turn Godward and do right
have reward, no fear, and no grief.
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: medium
notes: Extraction is based entirely on the supplied English passage. Motif labels
are cautious where the passage states doctrine or polemic rather than narrating
an extended mythic episode.
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: |-
Line locators are approximate within the supplied 19103-19221 range, using the passage order and provided line span.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg__l19103-l19221
passage_sha256=527a2a7360bcab6780ad4a51eaea45e40a2f0400e727863f58c637ba7e65c6a8