batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l22473-l22591
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l22473-l22591
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 22473-22591
start: '22473'
end: '22591'
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 gives divine guidance on mercy, avoidance of sins, lawful exchange,
inheritance, marital dispute resolution, worship, care for vulnerable people,
almsgiving, prayer purity, and relations with people of Scripture. It describes
divine recompense, witnesses on the judgment day, Paradise for those forgiven,
and fire or Hell for malicious wrongdoers and unbelief.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: God is described as desiring to guide the audience, turn to them in mercy,
and lighten their burden.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Believers are instructed not to consume one another's substance frivolously
except by consensual trafficking, and not to commit suicide.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Malicious and wrongful wrongdoing is said to lead to being cast into the fire.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Avoidance of great forbidden sins is associated with faults being blotted
out and entry into Paradise.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage assigns portions to men and women according to their deserts and
instructs the audience to ask God for gifts.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Kindred and contractual associates are appointed as heirs, and each is to
receive a portion.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The passage gives instructions about marital authority, feared refractoriness,
separation in beds, scourging, obedience, and avoiding further occasion against
obedient wives.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: If a breach between husband and wife is feared, a judge from each family is
to be sent, and God may effect reconciliation if agreement is desired.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The audience is instructed to worship God alone and to be good to parents,
kin, orphans, the poor, neighbors, travelers, wayfarers, and slaves held by the
right hand.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Niggardliness, ostentatious almsgiving, unbelief in God and the last day,
and taking Satan as companion are condemned.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: God is said not to wrong anyone even by the weight of a mote; a good deed
is repaid doubly, with a great recompense from God's presence.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: A future scene is described in which witnesses from all peoples and the prophet
as witness are brought up, and infidels who rebelled against the prophet wish
the earth were levelled with them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: Believers are instructed not to come to prayer while drunken or polluted until
appropriate washing; if water is unavailable, pure sand is to be rubbed on the
face and hands.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: Some recipients of Scripture are described as vendors of error who desire
that believers go astray.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: Some among the Jews are described as displacing scriptural words and using
speech that perplexes and wounds the faith.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: People given the Scriptures are warned to believe in the sent-down confirmation
before features are effaced, heads twisted backward, or they are cursed like sabbath-breakers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: The union of other gods with God is described as unforgiven by God, while
other matters may be forgiven to whom God pleases.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: God is said to have given the Scriptures, wisdom, and a grand kingdom to the
line of Abraham.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:19
text: Some are said to believe on the prophet and some to turn aside from him; the
flame of Hell is stated as sufficient punishment.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Divine speaker and actor who guides, forgives, commands, judges, curses,
gives bounty, and repays deeds.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:11
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Believers
description: The addressed community receiving instructions on conduct, worship,
prayer, purification, and social duties.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:13
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Wrongdoers and unbelievers
description: Persons described as acting maliciously and wrongfully, rebelling against
the prophet, or disbelieving.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:19
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Men and women
description: Human groups discussed in relation to portions, gifts, deserts, marital
relations, and family dispute resolution.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Judges from both families
description: A judge from the husband's family and a judge from the wife's family
are to be sent if marital breach is feared.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Satan
description: Named as a possible companion for those who give alms for display and
do not believe in God and the last day.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Prophet
description: The prophet is mentioned as one against whom some rebel and as a witness
brought against them.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:19
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: People given Scripture
description: A collective group described as having received part of the Scriptures,
with some accused of error or distortion and addressed with a warning to believe.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Line of Abraham
description: The lineage said to have received Scriptures, wisdom, and a grand kingdom
of old.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Divine guide and mercy-giver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God desires to guide the audience, turn in mercy, and lighten their burden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: Divine judge and recompensor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God casts wrongdoers into fire, admits others to Paradise, repays good deeds,
brings witnesses, curses, and forgives or does not forgive.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: role:3
label: Addressed moral and ritual community
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Believers are directly instructed about lawful exchange, worship, care for
others, prayer, and purification.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:13
- id: role:4
label: Condemned transgressors
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Wrongdoers, unbelievers, and rebels against the prophet are associated with
fire, chastisement, and the wish to be hidden in the earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:19
- id: role:5
label: Family and inheritance parties
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Men and women are discussed as recipients of portions and as parties in marital
regulation and reconciliation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: Mediators in marital breach
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: One judge from each family is sent when breach between husband and wife is
feared.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: Evil companion
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Satan is explicitly called an evil companion for those described.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:8
label: Eschatological witness
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The prophet is to be brought as witness against those who rebelled.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:9
label: Scriptural recipients under admonition
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Those given Scripture are described as vendors of error, displacers of words,
and recipients of a warning to believe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: role:10
label: Recipients of scripture, wisdom, and kingdom
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The line of Abraham is said to have received Scriptures, wisdom, and a grand
kingdom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Fire
literal_form: Fire into which a malicious wrongdoer is cast; later, the flame of
Hell as punishment.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:19
- id: sym:2
label: Paradise
literal_form: Paradise entered with honourable entry after avoidance of great forbidden
sins and blotted faults.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: Water
literal_form: Water used for washing before prayer when polluted or after specified
conditions.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:4
label: Pure sand
literal_form: Pure sand rubbed on face and hands when water is unavailable.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:5
label: Scriptures
literal_form: Scriptures given to some groups, confirmed by what is sent down, and
given with wisdom to the line of Abraham.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
- id: sym:6
label: Date-stone measure
literal_form: The husk or speck in a date stone used as a measure of minimal wrong
or withholding.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:18
- id: sym:7
label: Witnesses from all peoples
literal_form: Witnesses brought up from all peoples, with the prophet as witness
against the rebels.
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Divine guidance and mercy
summary: God states the desire to make guidance known, guide by the ways of earlier
people, turn in mercy, and lighten the human burden.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Rules of exchange, sin, and reward
summary: Believers are warned against wrongful consumption and suicide; malicious
wrongdoing leads to fire, while avoiding major sins leads to forgiven faults and
entry into Paradise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Family portions and marital arbitration
summary: The passage discusses portions for men and women, inheritance shares, marital
discipline, and arbitration by one judge from each family.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: Worship, charity, and social obligation
summary: The audience is commanded to worship God alone and care for relatives and
vulnerable people; pride, miserliness, ostentatious almsgiving, unbelief, and
Satanic companionship are condemned.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:5
label: Judgment with witnesses and recompense
summary: God is described as not wronging anyone, doubling a good deed, giving recompense,
and bringing witnesses from all peoples and the prophet as witness against rebels.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: scene:6
label: Prayer purification
summary: Believers are told not to approach prayer while drunken or polluted; washing
is required when possible, and pure sand is prescribed when water is unavailable.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: scene:7
label: Scriptural admonition and curse
summary: Some people given Scripture are accused of error and distorted speech;
they are warned to believe before features are effaced, heads turned backward,
or curses fall as on sabbath-breakers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: scene:8
label: Unforgiven association of gods and Abrahamic gifts
summary: The passage states that associating other gods with God is not forgiven,
criticizes false righteousness and lie-making about God, and recalls Scriptures,
wisdom, and kingdom given to the line of Abraham, ending with Hell's flame for
those who turn aside.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:18
- ev:19
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine judgment with recompense, witnesses, Paradise, and Hell-fire
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage describes good deeds repaid, witnesses brought at judgment, faults
blotted out with entry into Paradise, and wrongdoers or those turning aside punished
by fire or Hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is primarily legal and exhortative rather than a narrative
afterlife journey.
- id: motif:2
label: Merciful divine guidance and lightened burden
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: God is said to guide the audience into earlier ways, turn to them in mercy,
and lighten their burden; God is called Knowing and Wise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The wisdom motif is present as divine guidance and attribute, not as a
separate wisdom quest narrative.
- id: motif:3
label: Scripture and wisdom granted to an ancestral lineage
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- royal_legitimacy
basis: The line of Abraham is said to have received the Scriptures, wisdom, and
a grand kingdom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage alludes to an inherited sacred and royal gift but does not
narrate the founding event.
- id: motif:4
label: Purification before sacred speech or prayer
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage prohibits approaching prayer in states of drunkenness or pollution
and prescribes washing with water or rubbing with pure sand when water is absent.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches ritual purification;
water is a symbol reference rather than a motif-family reference.
- id: motif:5
label: Exclusive worship and rejection of divine association
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage commands worship of God without joining anything with Him and
states that union of other gods with God is not forgiven.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:17
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly captures monotheistic exclusivity
in this list.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 22473-22482
quote_or_summary: God desires to make guidance known, guide into the ways of those
before, turn in mercy, and lighten the burden because humanity is weak.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 22483-22487
quote_or_summary: Believers are told not to devour one another's substance except
by consensual trafficking, and not to commit suicide.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: 22488-22490
quote_or_summary: '"we will in the end cast him into the fire"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 22491-22493
quote_or_summary: Those who avoid the great forbidden sins will have faults blotted
out and will enter Paradise with an honourable entry.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 22494-22498
quote_or_summary: Men and women each have a portion according to their deserts;
the audience is told to ask God for gifts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 22499-22502
quote_or_summary: Kindred and those joined by right-hand contract are appointed
as heirs and are to be given their portions.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 22503-22510
quote_or_summary: Men are described as superior to women; virtuous women are obedient,
and instructions are given for chiding, separating, and scourging wives whose
refractoriness is feared, with no occasion to be sought against those who obey.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 22511-22515
quote_or_summary: If breach between man and wife is feared, a judge from each family
is to be sent; if they desire agreement, God will effect reconciliation.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: 22516-22521
quote_or_summary: The audience is commanded to worship God alone and be good to
parents, kin, orphans, the poor, neighbors, travelers, wayfarers, and slaves held
by the right hand.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: 22522-22530
quote_or_summary: The passage condemns miserliness, hiding God's bounty, alms given
to be seen, unbelief in God and the last day, and taking Satan as companion.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: 22531-22537
quote_or_summary: If people believed and gave alms, God would know them; God will
not wrong anyone by even a mote, and any good deed will be repaid doubly with
great recompense.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: 22538-22542
quote_or_summary: Witnesses from all peoples and the prophet as witness are brought;
infidels who rebelled against the prophet wish the earth were levelled with them,
and nothing is hidden from God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: 22543-22550
quote_or_summary: Believers must not come to prayer drunk or polluted until they
understand or have washed; if water is unavailable, they rub pure sand and bathe
face and hands with it.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: 22551-22555
quote_or_summary: Those given part of the Scriptures are called vendors of error
who desire the audience to go astray; God is sufficient patron and helper.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: 22556-22565
quote_or_summary: Among the Jews, some are said to displace the words of their Scriptures
and use phrases that perplex with tongues and wound the faith; alternate obedient
wording would be better.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: 22566-22570
quote_or_summary: Those given Scriptures are told to believe in what has been sent
down confirming their Scripture before faces are effaced, heads twisted backward,
or they are cursed like sabbath-breakers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: 22571-22579
quote_or_summary: God will not forgive joining other gods with Himself; God makes
righteous whom He will, and people will not be wronged the husk of a date stone.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: 22580-22588
quote_or_summary: Some given Scripture believe in Djibt and Thagout and are cursed;
the passage asks about withholding even the speck in a date stone and recalls
that the line of Abraham received Scriptures, wisdom, and a grand kingdom.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: quote
locator: 22589-22591
quote_or_summary: '"the flame of Hell is their sufficing punishment"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is mostly legal, exhortative, and theological. Judgment, fire,
Paradise, purity, and scripture/wisdom themes are explicit; broader comparative
claims are intentionally omitted because the passage itself does not support historical
or cross-traditional comparison.
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 the supplied passage and metadata. Taxonomy references are limited to supplied motif families and symbols.
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