batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l21243-l21364
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l21243-l21364
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 21243-21364
start: '21243'
end: '21364'
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 recounts Jesus being taught revelation and wisdom, announcing
signs to Israel, animating a clay bird by God's leave, healing the blind and leper,
raising the dead by God's leave, and calling for obedience to God. His helpers
profess belief. God addresses Jesus, promising death, taking him up, deliverance
from unbelievers, and final judgment. The passage compares Jesus with Adam as
created by God's command, challenges disputants to invoke God's curse on liars,
calls the People of the Book to monotheistic agreement, identifies Abraham as
a Muslim rather than Jew or Christian, warns against misleading believers, condemns
concealment or distortion of scripture, discusses trust and oaths, and rejects
taking prophets or angels as lords.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Jesus is described as being taught the Book, Wisdom, Law, and Evangel and
as an apostle to the children of Israel.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Jesus says he will make a bird-like figure from clay, breathe into it, and
it will become a bird by God's leave.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Jesus says he will heal the blind and the leper, quicken the dead by God's
leave, and tell people what they eat and store in their houses.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Jesus says he comes to attest the prior law, allow part of what had been forbidden,
and call people to fear God, obey him, and worship God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: When Jesus perceives unbelief, the apostles identify themselves as God's helpers
and ask to be written among witnesses.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The Jews are said to plot, and God is said to plot, with God named the best
of plotters.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: God tells Jesus that he will cause him to die, take him up to himself, deliver
him from unbelievers, and place his followers above unbelievers until the day
of resurrection.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: God says return is to him and that he will decide between differing parties,
punish unbelievers, and recompense believers who do right.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Jesus is compared with Adam in God's sight; Adam is described as created from
dust and brought into being by the command 'Be'.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Disputants are challenged to summon sons, wives, and selves, then invoke God's
malison on liars.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: 'The People of the Book are called to a shared judgment: worship only God,
associate no other god with him, and not take one another as lords beside God.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: The passage says Abraham was neither Jew nor Christian but sound in faith,
a Muslim, and not one who adds gods to God.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: The nearest kin to Abraham are identified as those who follow him, Muhammad,
and those who believe; God is called protector of the faithful.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: Some among the People of the Book are said to mislead, hide truth, clothe
truth with falsehood, and distort scripture with their tongues.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:18
- id: obs:15
text: Some among the People of the Book are contrasted as trustworthy or untrustworthy
with entrusted dinars.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Those who barter engagement with God and oaths for a small price are denied
a portion in the world to come and face divine non-recognition and chastisement.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: The passage denies that a recipient of scripture, wisdom, and prophecy should
tell followers to worship him along with God, and denies that God commands taking
angels or prophets as lords.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:19
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Jesus
description: Apostle to the children of Israel; speaker of signs; recipient of God's
promise to be taken up and delivered.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: God
description: Source of leave for miracles; Lord; one who plots, takes Jesus up,
judges, punishes, recompenses, protects, and gives mercy.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:13
- ev:16
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Children of Israel
description: The group to whom Jesus is sent as apostle.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Apostles / helpers
description: Those who answer Jesus by professing belief in God and asking to be
counted as witnesses.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Jews / unbelievers
description: Those described as plotting or not believing in the context of God's
promise to deliver Jesus.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Believers / followers of Jesus
description: Those who believe, do right, follow Jesus, and are promised recompense
or placement above unbelievers.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Adam
description: Figure compared with Jesus; created from dust and brought into being
by God's command.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Disputants
description: Those who dispute about Jesus after knowledge has come and are challenged
to mutual invocation.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: People of the Book
description: Addressees in disputes about worship, Abraham, signs, truth, guidance,
trust, and scripture.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:18
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Abraham
description: Ancestor described as neither Jew nor Christian, but sound in faith
and a Muslim.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Muhammad
description: Named as this prophet associated with those nearest of kin to Abraham.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Angels and prophets
description: Beings whom God does not command people to take as lords.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Apostle and sign-worker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jesus is called an apostle to Israel and announces signs performed by God's
leave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: Divine lord, miracle-authorizer, deliverer, and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: God grants leave for signs, takes Jesus up, delivers him, decides disputes,
punishes, and recompenses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: Recipient community of apostolic mission
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Jesus is sent as apostle to the children of Israel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: Believing helpers and witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The apostles say they are God's helpers, believe in God, and ask to be written
among witnesses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: Plotters and unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Jews are described as plotting, and God promises to deliver Jesus from
those who believe not.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: Faithful followers and recipients of recompense
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Followers are placed above unbelievers and believers who do right receive
recompense.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: Created analogue to Jesus
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Jesus is explicitly compared with Adam, who is created from dust by God's
command.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: Contesting interlocutors
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: They dispute about Jesus after knowledge has come and are invited to a solemn
invocation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:9
label: Scriptural community under admonition
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The People of the Book are addressed about worship, Abraham, truth, guidance,
trust, and scripture.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:18
- id: role:10
label: Monotheistic ancestor
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Abraham is described as sound in faith, a Muslim, and not one who adds gods
to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:11
label: Prophet linked to Abraham's followers
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Muhammad is named among those nearest of kin to Abraham together with believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:12
label: Beings not to be taken as lords
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The passage says God does not command taking angels or prophets as lords.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Book, Wisdom, Law, and Evangel
literal_form: Revelatory teachings named as Book, Wisdom, Law, and Evangel.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: Clay bird figure
literal_form: A figure of a bird made from clay and animated by breath by God's
leave.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: Breath into clay
literal_form: Jesus breathes into the clay bird figure before it becomes a bird
by God's leave.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: Blind, leper, and dead
literal_form: Persons named as blind, leprous, or dead who are healed or quickened.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: Taking up to God
literal_form: God says he will take Jesus up to himself.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: Day of resurrection
literal_form: A future day named as the day of resurrection.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:16
- id: sym:7
label: Dust and command 'Be'
literal_form: Adam is created from dust and comes to be by God's command.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:8
label: Sons, wives, selves, and malison
literal_form: Kin groups and selves are summoned for an invocation of God's curse
on liars.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:9
label: Dinars entrusted
literal_form: A thousand dinars and a dinar used to illustrate trust and failure
to restore what is entrusted.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:10
label: Engagement with God and oaths
literal_form: Engagement with God and oaths bartered for a paltry price.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: sym:11
label: Scripture distorted by tongues
literal_form: Scriptures are said to be tortured with tongues so that non-scripture
is supposed to be scripture.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Jesus announces signs to Israel
summary: Jesus is taught revelation and wisdom, sent to Israel, and announces a
clay bird animated by breath, healings, raising the dead, hidden knowledge, and
confirmation of prior law, all framed as signs from God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Helpers respond to Jesus
summary: After Jesus perceives unbelief, the apostles declare themselves God's helpers,
profess belief, and ask to be counted among witnesses.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Plotting, deliverance, and judgment
summary: The passage contrasts human plotting with God's plotting, then presents
God's promise to cause Jesus to die, take him up, deliver him from unbelievers,
elevate his followers, and judge all parties at their return to him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: Jesus and Adam analogy
summary: Jesus is said to be like Adam in God's sight, with Adam created from dust
and brought into being by the divine command.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Challenge to disputants
summary: Those disputing about Jesus are told to gather sons, wives, and selves
and invoke God's malison upon liars.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:6
label: Address to People of the Book and Abraham's status
summary: The People of the Book are called to exclusive worship of God and are questioned
about Abraham, who is identified as neither Jew nor Christian but as sound in
faith and a Muslim; Muhammad and believers are linked to Abraham's following.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: scene:7
label: Truth, trust, oaths, and scripture
summary: The passage warns that some among the People of the Book mislead, hide
truth, manipulate belief, differ in trustworthiness with entrusted dinars, barter
oaths, and distort scripture while claiming divine authority.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
- id: scene:8
label: Rejection of worshipping prophets or angels
summary: A recipient of scripture, wisdom, and prophecy is said not to command worship
of himself besides God; God is also said not to command taking angels or prophets
as lords.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:19
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Miraculous animation of a clay bird
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Jesus makes a clay figure of a bird, breathes into it, and it becomes a bird
by God's leave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the act as a sign from God; it does not present an
independent creator figure.
- id: motif:2
label: Healing and quickening the dead as divine signs
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Jesus announces healing the blind and leper and quickening the dead by God's
leave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The raising of the dead is stated generally; no individual restored person
is narrated in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: Ascent or taking up of a prophet by God
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: God tells Jesus that he will take him up to himself and deliver him from
unbelievers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: Rodwell's translation includes 'cause thee to die' before the taking up;
interpretation of sequence requires review.
- id: motif:4
label: Final divine judgment and recompense
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: God says return is to him, he will decide disputes, chastise unbelievers,
and recompense believers who do right.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: This is doctrinal judgment language rather than an extended narrative
of the afterlife.
- id: motif:5
label: Divine command brings a human into being
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Adam is created from dust, and God says 'Be' and he is.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage uses this as an analogy for Jesus rather than recounting Adam's
broader story.
- id: motif:6
label: Solemn mutual invocation to expose liars
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Disputants are told to gather kin and selves and invoke God's malison on
those who lie.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives the challenge formula but does not narrate its performance.
- id: motif:7
label: True monotheistic ancestry and contested religious lineage
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: Abraham is identified as neither Jew nor Christian but sound in faith and
Muslim, and those who follow him with Muhammad and believers are called nearest
to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The covenant taxonomy is approximate; the passage emphasizes religious
affiliation and monotheistic lineage rather than narrating a covenant event.
- id: motif:8
label: Scriptural distortion and concealment of truth
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Some People of the Book are accused of hiding truth, clothing truth with
falsehood, and twisting scripture with their tongues.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:18
confidence: medium
cautions: The wisdom taxonomy is broad; the passage is primarily polemical about
revelation and interpretation.
- id: motif:9
label: Bartered oath or broken engagement with God
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
- sacred_exchange
basis: Those who barter engagement with God and oaths for a paltry price are threatened
with exclusion and chastisement.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The exact nature of the engagement is not narrated in this excerpt.
- id: motif:10
label: Refusal to deify prophets or angels
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage denies that a prophet should command worship of himself besides
God and denies that God commands taking angels or prophets as lords.
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: This is a doctrinal admonition, not a mythic scene involving an attempted
deification.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself explicitly compares Jesus with Adam in relation to God's
creative act, presenting Adam's creation from dust and the command 'Be' as the
basis of comparison.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Adam's creation by divine command within the same passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The comparison is internal to the passage; no external tradition or
historical relationship is inferred.
- id: claim:2
claim: The clay bird sign and Adam's creation both involve formed matter and divine
authorization or command, suggesting a shared creation-by-divine-power pattern
within the passage.
claim_level: same_function
target: Creation or animation through divine power in the clay bird sign and Adam
analogy
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The text does not explicitly compare the clay bird to Adam; the link
is an internal functional comparison based on described actions.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage contrasts legitimate prophetic signs and scripture with accusations
of scriptural distortion, creating a recurrent pattern of true divine communication
versus false attribution to God.
claim_level: same_function
target: True revelation versus false claims about scripture within the passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:14
- ev:18
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is a thematic comparison within the excerpt, not a claim about
borrowing or shared origin.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, opening Jesus mission statement
quote_or_summary: Jesus is to be taught the Book, Wisdom, Law, and Evangel and to
be an apostle to the children of Israel.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; short summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 21243-21364, Jesus signs paragraph
quote_or_summary: '"Out of clay will I make for you, as it were, the figure of a
bird: and I will breathe into it, and it shall become, by God''s leave, a bird."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, Jesus signs paragraph
quote_or_summary: Jesus says he will heal the blind and leper, quicken the dead
by God's leave, and tell people what they eat and store in houses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, confirmation of prior law
quote_or_summary: Jesus says he comes to attest the prior law, permit part of what
had been forbidden, and calls people to fear God, obey him, and worship God as
Lord.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, apostles' response
quote_or_summary: When Jesus perceives unbelief, the apostles say they are God's
helpers, believe in God, follow the apostle, and ask to be written among witnesses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 21243-21364, plotting notice
quote_or_summary: '"And the Jews plotted, and God plotted: But of those who plot
is God the best."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, God's address to Jesus
quote_or_summary: God tells Jesus he will cause him to die, take him up to himself,
deliver him from unbelievers, and place his followers above unbelievers until
the day of resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, judgment and recompense
quote_or_summary: God says return is to him, he will decide differences, chastise
unbelievers in this world and the next, and recompense believers who do right.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 21243-21364, Jesus and Adam comparison
quote_or_summary: '"Verily, Jesus is as Adam in the sight of God. He created him
of dust: He then said to him, ''Be'' and he was."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, challenge to disputants
quote_or_summary: Those disputing about Jesus are told to summon sons, wives, and
selves, then invoke God's malison on liars.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, address to People of the Book
quote_or_summary: 'The People of the Book are invited to a just judgment: worship
none but God, associate no other god with him, and not take one another as lords
beside God.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: lines 21243-21364, Abraham statement
quote_or_summary: '"Abraham was neither Jew nor Christian; but he was sound in the
faith, a Muslim; and not of those who add gods to God."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, Abraham's nearest kin
quote_or_summary: Those nearest to Abraham are those who follow him, Muhammad, and
believers; God is protector of the faithful.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, warnings to People of the Book
quote_or_summary: Some among the People of the Book are said to mislead themselves,
disbelieve signs, clothe truth with falsehood, hide truth, and manipulate belief
at daybreak and day's close.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, entrusted dinars
quote_or_summary: Among the People of the Book, some restore a thousand entrusted
dinars, while others will not restore a dinar unless pressed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, engagement and oaths
quote_or_summary: Those who barter engagement with God and oaths for a paltry price
have no portion in the world to come and face grievous chastisement.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, prophecy and worship
quote_or_summary: A man given scriptures, wisdom, and prophecy should not tell followers
to worship him as well as God, but should direct them to be perfected in things
pertaining to God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 21243-21364, scripture twisted with tongues
quote_or_summary: Some are said to torture the Scriptures with their tongues so
listeners suppose it is scripture; they claim it is from God though it is not.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; summary used.
- id: ev:19
type: quote
locator: lines 21243-21364, angels and prophets as lords
quote_or_summary: '"God doth not command you to take the angels or the prophets
as lords."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied; short excerpt used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit. Some motif
taxonomy assignments are approximate, especially covenant, wisdom, and sacred
exchange, and should be reviewed by a human.
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: |-
Used only supplied passage and metadata. Comparison claims are limited to internal passage-level comparisons and functional parallels supported by the excerpt.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg__l21243-l21364
passage_sha256=c2c88f8b638d67faf200fc21d516886077553fd24564c052b0e9371f27339cdc