batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l19223-l19345
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label: PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. /
PREFACE; lines 19223-19345
start: '19223'
end: '19345'
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 recounts Abraham’s submission to God and his bequest of religion
to his children, Jacob’s deathbed question to his sons, a dispute over Jewish
and Christian claims, a declaration of belief in God’s revelations to multiple
prophets, the change of the kebla toward the sacred Mosque, the community’s role
as witnesses, the apostle’s instruction, exhortations to remembrance, patience,
prayer, and gratitude, the living status of those slain on God’s path, trials
of believers, pilgrimage around Safa and Marwah, and warnings against concealing
divine guidance or dying in unbelief.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Abraham responds to his Lord’s command by declaring submission to the Lord
of the Worlds.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Abraham and Jacob bequeath a chosen religion to their children and instruct
them not to die unless surrendered to God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: At the point of death, Jacob asks his sons whom they will worship after him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Jacob’s sons answer that they will worship one God, identified as the God
of Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, and Jacob.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The passage rejects the claim that becoming Jews or Christians is required
for true guidance, and names the religion of Abraham as sound in faith.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The audience is instructed to profess belief in God and in revelations sent
to Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, Jacob, the tribes, Moses, Jesus, and the prophets.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage states that Islam is the Baptism of God and that God is better
to baptise than any other.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The East and the West are said to belong to God, and God guides whom he wills
into the right path.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The community is described as a central people appointed to be witnesses regarding
mankind, while the apostle is a witness regarding the community.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: The former kebla is said to have been appointed as a test distinguishing those
who follow the apostle from those who turn back.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: The addressee and the believers are repeatedly commanded to turn their faces
toward the sacred Mosque from wherever they are.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: An apostle from among the community is sent to rehearse signs, purify them,
instruct them in the Book and wisdom, and teach what they did not know.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: Believers are told to seek help with patience and prayer because God is with
the patient.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: Those slain on God’s path are not to be called dead; they are said to be living,
though the audience does not understand.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: The community will be tested with fear, hunger, and loss of wealth, lives,
and fruits, and good tidings are directed to the patient.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Those who suffer mischance say that they belong to God and shall return to
him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: Safa and Marwah are described as among the monuments of God, and pilgrims
to the temple may go round about them both.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: Those who conceal clear proof or guidance after it has been shown in the Book
are cursed, while those who turn, amend, and make known the truth receive divine
turning and mercy.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:19
- id: obs:19
text: Those who are infidels and die as infidels are said to be under the malison
of God, angels, and all men.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord of the Worlds
description: The divine Lord who commands submission, chooses religion, sends revelation,
guides, protects, tests, rewards, blesses, curses, and shows mercy.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:18
- ev:20
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Abraham
description: A patriarch who submits to God and bequeaths the chosen religion to
his children; his religion is described as sound in faith.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Jacob
description: A patriarch who bequeaths the religion to his children and questions
his sons at the point of death about their future worship.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Jacob’s sons / children
description: The sons answer Jacob that they will worship the one God of their fathers
and are surrendered to him.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Ismael and Isaac
description: Named among the fathers whose God Jacob’s sons will worship and among
recipients associated with revelation in the profession of belief.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Moses, Jesus, the tribes, and the prophets
description: Named recipients of what was given from their Lord, with no difference
to be made between them in belief.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: The apostle
description: A messenger from among the community, described as a witness regarding
them and as one who rehearses signs, purifies, and teaches the Book and wisdom.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:12
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: The believing community / central people
description: The addressed community is made central, commanded to face the sacred
Mosque, told to remember God, seek help with patience and prayer, and bear witness
regarding mankind.
role_refs:
- role:9
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:13
- ev:16
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Those who have received the Scriptures / the Book
description: A group said to know the kebla truth and the apostle, while some conceal
the truth despite acquaintance with it.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Those slain on God’s path
description: Persons slain on God’s path who are not to be called dead but are said
to be living.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: The patient
description: Those who endure trials and mischance, say they belong to God and return
to him, and receive blessings, mercy, and guidance.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Those who conceal guidance / infidels
description: Those who conceal divine proof or guidance are cursed unless they turn
and amend; those who die as infidels are under malison.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:20
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Divine lord and guide
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is named as Lord, owner of East and West, and the one who guides whom
he wills.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: Revealer and teacher through messengers
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage attributes sent-down revelation and the sending of an apostle
to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:12
- id: role:3
label: Ancestral transmitter of faith
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
basis: Abraham, Jacob, Ismael, and Isaac are invoked as ancestral figures in the
transmission and confession of worship of one God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: Deathbed admonisher
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Jacob is described at the point of death asking his sons whom they will worship
after him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: Responding descendants
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Jacob’s sons answer with a confession of worship of one God and surrender
to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: Recognized prophetic recipients
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Moses, Jesus, the tribes, and the prophets are included among those to whom
divine gifts or revelation were given.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: Judge, rewarder, and curser
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage speaks of reward for deeds, blessings and mercy for the patient,
and malison on infidels.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:20
- id: role:8
label: Witness and instructor
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The apostle is a witness regarding the community and is sent to rehearse
signs, purify, and teach.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:12
- id: role:9
label: Witness community
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The community is made a central people so that it may be witness regarding
mankind.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: Ritually oriented community
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The community is repeatedly commanded to turn faces toward the sacred Mosque
wherever they are.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:11
label: Scriptural interlocutors and concealers
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Those with the Scriptures are said to know the truth, though some conceal
it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:12
label: Living slain
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Those slain on God’s path are said not to be dead but living.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:13
label: Tested patient ones
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The patient endure fear, hunger, and losses, confess return to God, and receive
blessings and mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: role:14
label: Concealers or unbelieving recipients of curse
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The passage states that those who conceal guidance are cursed, and those
who die infidels bear malison.
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:20
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Chosen religion of Abraham
literal_form: A religion bequeathed by Abraham and Jacob to their children and contrasted
with Jewish or Christian identity claims.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: One God of the fathers
literal_form: The God of Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, and Jacob, named in Jacob’s sons’
confession.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: Baptism of God
literal_form: A divine baptism identified with Islam in the translation.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: East and West
literal_form: The two directions said to belong to God.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: Kebla
literal_form: The prayer direction formerly used and then changed, functioning as
a test of following the apostle.
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: sym:6
label: Sacred Mosque
literal_form: The place toward which faces are commanded to turn from wherever people
are.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: sym:7
label: The Book
literal_form: A divine Book associated with guidance, truth, instruction, and clear
proof.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:9
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:18
- id: sym:8
label: Slain yet living
literal_form: Those slain on God’s path are described as living rather than dead.
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:9
label: Fear, hunger, and losses
literal_form: Fear, hunger, and loss of wealth, lives, and fruits used as forms
of trial.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:10
label: Return to God
literal_form: The saying that people belong to God and shall return to him after
mischance.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: sym:11
label: Safa and Marwah
literal_form: Two named monuments of God around which pilgrims or visitors to the
temple may go.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Abrahamic submission and inheritance
summary: Abraham submits to God, and Abraham and Jacob transmit the chosen religion
to their children as an obligation to die surrendered to God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Jacob’s deathbed confession scene
summary: At the point of death, Jacob asks his sons whom they will worship, and
they answer with worship of the one God of their fathers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Dispute over Abrahamic identity and revelation
summary: The passage rejects a demand to become Jews or Christians for guidance
and commands belief in revelations to multiple named prophets without distinction.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Change of the kebla toward the sacred Mosque
summary: The former kebla is described as a test, and the community is commanded
to turn toward the sacred Mosque wherever they are.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:5
label: Apostolic purification and instruction
summary: An apostle from among the people is sent to recite signs, purify the community,
and teach the Book and wisdom.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: scene:6
label: Trial, patience, and return to God
summary: Believers are urged to seek help in patience and prayer, face trials of
fear and loss, and respond to mischance by confessing that they belong to God
and return to him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: scene:7
label: The slain on God’s path
summary: The passage forbids calling those slain on God’s path dead and instead
describes them as living.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: scene:8
label: Pilgrimage around Safa and Marwah
summary: Safa and Marwah are called monuments of God, and pilgrims or visitors to
the temple are permitted to go round both.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: scene:9
label: Concealment, repentance, and malison
summary: Those who conceal divine proof or guidance are cursed, those who amend
and disclose truth receive mercy, and infidels dying as infidels are under malison.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:19
- ev:20
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Ancestral covenantal transmission of worship
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: Abraham and Jacob pass a chosen religion to their children, and Jacob’s sons
pledge worship of the one God of their fathers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The term covenant is not used in the translated passage; the motif identification
rests on inheritance of religious obligation and ancestral confession.
- id: motif:2
label: Sacred orientation toward a ritual center
taxonomy_refs:
- world_center
basis: The passage states that East and West belong to God yet commands the community
to turn faces toward the sacred Mosque from every place.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage names a sacred direction and mosque, not an explicit cosmic
center; world-center classification is functional and should be reviewed.
- id: motif:3
label: Community tested through hardship
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
basis: The community is told it will be proved by fear, hunger, and loss, and the
patient are given good tidings and blessings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage frames the hardship as divine proving and patience rather
than a formal initiation rite.
- id: motif:4
label: Slain righteous are living
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Those slain on God’s path are not to be called dead, but living, and the
audience is told it does not understand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage affirms life of the slain but does not detail the mechanics
of resurrection in this excerpt.
- id: motif:5
label: Divine judgment by reward, blessing, curse, and malison
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that past peoples have the reward of their deeds, the
patient receive blessings and mercy, concealers are cursed, and infidels dying
in unbelief receive malison.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
- ev:20
confidence: high
cautions: Judgment appears in several forms, but the excerpt does not narrate a
single courtroom-like judgment scene.
- id: motif:6
label: Instruction in the Book and wisdom
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The apostle is sent to instruct the community in the Book and in wisdom and
to teach what they did not know.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is based on explicit didactic language rather than a wisdom
tale.
- id: motif:7
label: Return to God after mischance
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: The patient respond to mischance by saying that they belong to God and shall
return to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The return is devotional and eschatological in wording; the passage does
not narrate a physical journey.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage compares and contests Jewish and Christian claims to guidance
by presenting the religion of Abraham as the proper ancestral model and by including
Moses and Jesus within a shared chain of revelation.
claim_level: same_function
target: Jewish and Christian guidance claims and Abrahamic prophetic lineage named
in the passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to explicit intra-passage comparison; it does
not establish historical contact beyond the passage’s own named interlocutors.
- id: claim:2
claim: The phrase 'Baptism of God' functions as a religious identity marker within
the passage, set amid discussion of Jewish and Christian affiliation and divine
service.
claim_level: same_function
target: Baptism as a marker of religious belonging in the passage’s Abrahamic polemic
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not explain baptismal practice; the functional comparison
is based only on the translated phrase and its immediate argumentative context.
- id: claim:3
claim: The sacred Mosque functions in the passage as a shared ritual orientation
point for the community, comparable at the motif level to a sacred center pattern.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Sacred center / world-center orientation motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:11
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The excerpt emphasizes obedience and communal direction rather than
cosmological geography; classification as world-center requires review.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 19223-19224
quote_or_summary: "“Resign thyself to me,” he said, “I resign myself to the Lord
of the Worlds.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 19225-19228
quote_or_summary: Abraham and Jacob bequeath a chosen religion to their children
and tell them not to die unless surrendered to God.
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 19229-19233
quote_or_summary: At Jacob’s point of death, he asks his sons whom they will worship;
they answer that they will worship the one God of Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, and
Jacob.
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 19237-19240
quote_or_summary: The passage rejects the instruction to become Jews or Christians
for guidance and instead names the religion of Abraham as sound in faith and not
polytheistic.
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 19241-19246
quote_or_summary: The audience is told to say that they believe in God and in what
was sent down to them and to Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, Jacob, the tribes, Moses,
Jesus, and the prophets, making no difference among them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 19251-19252
quote_or_summary: "“Islam is the Baptism of God, and who is better to baptise than
God?”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 19263-19265
quote_or_summary: When the foolish ask why the kebla changed, the answer is that
the East and West are God’s and that he guides whom he wills into the right path.
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 19266-19267
quote_or_summary: The community is made a central people so that it may be witness
regarding mankind, and the apostle may be witness regarding the community.
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 19268-19271
quote_or_summary: The former kebla is appointed to distinguish one who follows the
apostle from one who turns on his heels; the change is difficult except for those
God guides.
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 19272-19276
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told to turn his face toward the sacred Mosque,
and wherever the believers are, they are to turn their faces toward that part.
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 19286-19294
quote_or_summary: The command to turn the face toward the sacred Mosque is repeated
from whatever place one comes and wherever the believers are, so that others have
no cause of dispute against them.
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 19295-19298
quote_or_summary: An apostle from among the people is sent to rehearse God’s signs,
purify them, instruct them in the Book and wisdom, and teach what they did not
know.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 19301-19302
quote_or_summary: Believers are told to seek help with patience and prayer because
God is with the patient.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: quote
locator: lines 19303-19304
quote_or_summary: "“say not of those who are slain on God’s path that they are Dead;
nay, they are Living!”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 19305-19307
quote_or_summary: The community will be proved by fear, hunger, and loss of wealth,
lives, and fruits; good tidings are for the patient.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: quote
locator: lines 19308-19311
quote_or_summary: The patient say, “Verily we are God’s, and to Him shall we return,”
and receive blessings, mercy, and guidance.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: lines 19312-19316
quote_or_summary: Safa and Marwah are among God’s monuments, and whoever makes pilgrimage
to the temple or visits it is not blamed for going round about them both.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 19317-19320
quote_or_summary: Those who conceal what God has sent down of clear proof or guidance
after it has been shown in the Book are cursed by God and by those who curse.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 19321-19323
quote_or_summary: Those who turn, amend, and make known the truth receive God’s
turning and mercy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: lines 19324-19345
quote_or_summary: Those who are infidels and die infidels are under the malison
of God, angels, and all men.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied Rodwell English passage. Some line
locators within the range are approximate subdivisions of the provided excerpt.
Motif labels such as covenant, world-center, initiation, and resurrection require
human review because the passage’s wording is often theological and legal-exhortative
rather than narrative.
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 sources or taxonomy identifiers beyond the supplied available taxonomy references were used.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg__l19223-l19345
passage_sha256=5e6be642800cc8f8cde37d80a5e6090aaf11589c99a25d435f55db02deb576b8