Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l22815-l22934

batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l22815-l22934

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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l22815-l22934
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 22815-22934
  start: '22815'
  end: '22934'
  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 instructs the addressed prophet and believers about judgment,
    repentance, deceit, false accusation, secret counsel, loyalty to the prophet,
    rejection of associating other gods with God, Satan's misleading promises, Hell
    and Paradise, Abraham's sincere faith, legal and ethical treatment of women and
    orphans, God's sovereignty over heaven and earth, justice in testimony, and belief
    in God, the Apostle, revealed books, angels, and the last day.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: The Book is said to have been sent down with truth so that the addressed recipient
    may judge between people according to insight given by God.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: The passage says deceitful people may hide from humans but cannot hide from
    God, who is present with them during displeasing nightly discourse.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: The passage asks who will plead for such people before God on the day of resurrection.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:4
  text: A person who does evil and then asks pardon of God is said to find God forgiving
    and merciful.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:5
  text: A person who lays a fault or crime on the innocent is said to bear guilt for
    calumny and manifest crime.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:6
  text: A party is described as having resolved to mislead the addressed recipient,
    but the passage says they mislead only themselves and do not harm him.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:7
  text: The passage says the Book and wisdom have descended upon the addressed recipient
    and that God has caused him to know what he did not know.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:8
  text: Secret talk is mostly described as not good, except for talk enjoining almsgiving,
    right action, or concord among people.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:9
  text: Whoever separates from the prophet after guidance is manifested and follows
    another path is said to be turned away and cast into Hell.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:10
  text: The passage says God will not forgive joining other gods with Himself, while
    other sins may be forgiven to whom He wills.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:11
  text: The passage says some call on goddesses and invoke a rebel Satan.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:12
  text: Satan is quoted as saying he will take a portion of God's servants, lead them
    astray, stir desires in them, command them to cut animal ears, and command them
    to alter God's creation.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:13
  text: Satan's promises are described as beguiling, and those associated with him
    are assigned Hell with no escape.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:14
  text: Believers who do right are promised gardens beneath which rivers flow, where
    they will abide forever.
  category: setting
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: obs:15
  text: Righteous male and female believers are said to enter Paradise without being
    wronged even the skin of a date stone.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: obs:16
  text: The passage identifies the better religion with resignation to God, doing
    good, and following Abraham's sincere faith; God is said to have taken Abraham
    as His friend.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: obs:17
  text: The passage gives instructions concerning women, female orphans, weak children,
    and fairness toward orphans.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
- id: obs:18
  text: The passage permits agreement between husband and wife in cases of feared
    ill usage or aversion and says agreement is best.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:17
- id: obs:19
  text: The passage says all that is in the heavens and earth belongs to God and that
    prior scripture recipients and the addressed community were enjoined to fear God.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:18
- id: obs:20
  text: The passage says God could cause mankind to pass away and create others in
    their stead.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:19
- id: obs:21
  text: Believers are commanded to stand fast to justice and bear witness before God
    even against themselves, parents, or kindred.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:20
- id: obs:22
  text: Believers are commanded to believe in God, His Apostle, the Book sent down
    to the Apostle, the Book sent down before, angels, books, apostles, and the last
    day.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:21
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: God
  description: The divine speaker or subject described as forgiving, merciful, knowing,
    wise, sovereign over heaven and earth, revealer of the Book and wisdom, judge
    on the day of resurrection, and giver of recompense.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  - role:2
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  - ev:6
  - ev:13
  - ev:18
  - ev:20
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Addressed prophet / Apostle
  description: The recipient to whom the Book is sent down, who is instructed to judge
    between people and from whom separation after guidance is condemned.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:6
  - ev:8
  - ev:21
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Deceitful ones / self-deceivers
  description: People described as deceitful or criminal, hiding from humans but not
    from God, and associated with improper pleading and secret discourse.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Repentant wrongdoer
  description: A person who does evil or acts against his own welfare and then asks
    pardon of God.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: False accuser
  description: A person who commits a fault or crime and lays it on the innocent.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Rebel Satan
  description: A being invoked beside God, described as cursed, as leading a portion
    of God's servants astray, stirring desires, commanding animal ear-cutting and
    alteration of God's creation, and promising only to beguile.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Believers who do right
  description: People who believe and do right actions, including male and female
    believers, promised gardens and Paradise.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Abraham
  description: A figure whose sincere faith is to be followed and who is said to have
    been taken by God as His friend.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: People of the Book / prior scripture recipients
  description: A group mentioned in relation to wishes about recompense and as recipients
    of an earlier injunction to fear God.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:18
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: Women, female orphans, weak children, wives, and husbands
  description: Persons addressed in legal and ethical instructions about dues, marriage,
    fair dealing, ill usage, aversion, agreement, separation, and compensation.
  role_refs:
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
  - ev:17
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: Witnessing believers
  description: Believers commanded to stand fast to justice and bear witness before
    God, even when testimony affects themselves or relatives.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:20
  - ev:21
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: divine revealer
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: God is said to send down the Book and cause the Book and wisdom to descend.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:6
- id: role:2
  label: divine judge and recompensor
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The passage speaks of pleading with God on the day of resurrection, recompense
    for evil, Hell, Paradise, and reward from God.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:8
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
  - ev:20
- id: role:3
  label: forgiver and protector
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: God is repeatedly described as forgiving and merciful, and as a sufficient
    protector.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:17
  - ev:18
- id: role:4
  label: prophetic recipient and judge
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: The addressed recipient receives the Book with truth and is told to judge
    between people; separation from the prophet is condemned.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:8
- id: role:5
  label: deceiver or wrongdoer
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  - fig:5
  basis: These figures are described as deceitful, criminal, hiding from humans, or
    laying guilt on the innocent.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:5
- id: role:6
  label: penitent sinner
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The figure does evil and then seeks God's pardon.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:7
  label: tempter and misleader
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: Satan is represented as leading servants astray, stirring desires, issuing
    commands, making promises, and beguiling.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: role:8
  label: righteous rewarded believers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: Believers who do right are promised gardens, rivers, abiding forever, and
    Paradise.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
- id: role:9
  label: friend of God and model of sincere faith
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: The passage says to follow Abraham's sincere faith and that God took Abraham
    as His friend.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: role:10
  label: prior scripture community
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  basis: The group is named as people of the Book and as those to whom Scriptures
    were given before the addressed community.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:18
- id: role:11
  label: subjects of social-legal instruction
  assigned_to:
  - fig:10
  basis: The passage gives instructions regarding women, orphans, children, wives,
    husbands, agreement, and separation.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
  - ev:17
- id: role:12
  label: justice-bearing witnesses
  assigned_to:
  - fig:11
  basis: Believers are commanded to stand fast to justice and bear witness before
    God.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:20
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: Book
  literal_form: The Book sent down with truth and the Book sent down to the Apostle.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:21
- id: sym:2
  label: Wisdom
  literal_form: Wisdom caused to descend upon the addressed recipient.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:3
  label: Day of resurrection
  literal_form: The day on which pleading before God is questioned.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:4
  label: Hell
  literal_form: A destination into which the disloyal or Satan's followers are cast
    or dwell, with no escape for the latter.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:12
- id: sym:5
  label: Gardens beneath which rivers flow
  literal_form: Gardens with rivers flowing beneath them, promised to believers who
    do right.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:7
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: sym:6
  label: Paradise
  literal_form: Paradise entered by righteous male and female believers.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:7
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: sym:7
  label: Animal ears cut by command
  literal_form: The cutting of the ears of animals, attributed to Satan's command.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: sym:8
  label: Skin of a date stone
  literal_form: A small measure used to state that righteous believers will not be
    wronged.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:7
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: sym:9
  label: Heavens and Earth
  literal_form: All that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth, said to belong
    to God.
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:18
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Revelation and judgment among people
  summary: The Book is sent down with truth to the addressed recipient, who is to
    judge between people by the insight God has given and not dispute for deceitful
    ones.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Hidden wrongdoing and divine awareness
  summary: Deceitful people hide from humans but not from God; the passage asks who
    will plead for them on the day of resurrection.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: scene:3
  label: Repentance, false accusation, and attempted deception
  summary: The passage distinguishes the repentant wrongdoer who seeks pardon from
    the false accuser who bears guilt, and states that a party attempting to mislead
    the addressed recipient only misleads itself.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
- id: scene:4
  label: Secret counsel, loyalty, and punishment
  summary: Secret talk is approved only when it enjoins almsgiving, right action,
    or concord; separation from the prophet after guidance results in being cast into
    Hell.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: scene:5
  label: Association with other gods and Satan's deception
  summary: The passage rejects joining other gods with God, mentions invocation of
    goddesses and a rebel Satan, and presents Satan as misleading servants through
    desires, commands, and beguiling promises.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  - sym:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: scene:6
  label: Reward of believers and Abraham's faith
  summary: Believers who do right are promised gardens with rivers and Paradise; the
    passage commends resignation to God, good action, and the sincere faith of Abraham,
    God's friend.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  - sym:6
  - sym:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
- id: scene:7
  label: Instruction on women, orphans, marriage, and separation
  summary: The passage gives directions about female orphans, weak children, fairness
    to orphans, mutual agreement between spouses, fair treatment, and God's compensation
    if spouses separate.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:10
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
  - ev:17
- id: scene:8
  label: Divine ownership, justice, and belief
  summary: The passage states that everything in heaven and earth belongs to God,
    recalls an injunction to fear God given to prior scripture recipients and the
    current community, commands just testimony, and commands belief in God, the Apostle,
    books, angels, and the last day.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:9
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:18
  - ev:20
  - ev:21
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Divine judgment and recompense
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: The passage repeatedly describes God as the one before whom people answer,
    who recompenses evil, forgives or does not forgive, casts into Hell, and grants
    Paradise or reward.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
  - ev:20
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage is doctrinal and legal rather than narrative; motif labeling
    is based on repeated judgment and recompense language.
- id: motif:2
  label: Resurrection accountability
  taxonomy_refs:
  - resurrection
  basis: The passage explicitly names the day of resurrection in connection with pleading
    before God and later requires belief in the last day.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:21
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage does not narrate resurrection events; it invokes resurrection
    as an accountability setting.
- id: motif:3
  label: Revealed wisdom and guidance
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: The Book is sent down with truth for judgment, and the Book and wisdom are
    said to descend upon the addressed recipient, teaching him what he did not know.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:6
  confidence: high
  cautions: The motif is extracted from explicit revelation language, not from a separate
    wisdom tale.
- id: motif:4
  label: Tempter's deception of humans
  taxonomy_refs:
  - trickster_boundary
  basis: Satan is portrayed as taking a portion of servants, leading them astray,
    stirring desires, commanding ritualized acts, altering creation, and promising
    only to beguile.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The available taxonomy has no exact 'tempter' category; 'trickster_boundary'
    is only an approximate family for deceptive boundary-crossing activity.
- id: motif:5
  label: Paradisal garden with flowing rivers
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Righteous believers are promised gardens beneath which rivers flow and everlasting
    residence there.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  confidence: high
  cautions: No available motif-family reference exactly names the paradisal garden;
    the associated symbol of water is supported by the rivers.
- id: motif:6
  label: Universal divine sovereignty over heaven and earth
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The passage repeats that all in the heavens and earth belongs to God and
    that God encompasses all things.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
  - ev:18
  confidence: high
  cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly corresponds to divine ownership or
    sovereignty.
- id: motif:7
  label: Ethical justice over kinship and status
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Believers are commanded to stand fast to justice and bear witness before
    God even against themselves, parents, or kindred, and regardless of wealth or
    poverty.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:20
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is an ethical-legal pattern rather than a mythic narrative motif.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
  claim: The passage itself compares the current addressed community with earlier
    scripture recipients by saying both were enjoined to fear God.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: People to whom the Scriptures were given before the addressed community
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:18
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The passage states a shared injunction but does not provide details
    of the earlier scriptures or a narrative comparison.
- id: claim:2
  claim: The passage places belief in the present Book alongside belief in the Book
    sent down before, presenting earlier and current revelations as related objects
    of faith.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Earlier revealed Book / books sent down aforetime
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:21
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The comparison is doctrinal within the passage; no specific earlier
    text or tradition is identified by name.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: quote
  locator: 22815-22818
  quote_or_summary: '"we have sent down the Book to thee with the truth" so that the
    recipient may judge between people according to insight God gave him.'
  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: 22822-22824
  quote_or_summary: Deceitful people hide from men but cannot hide from God; God is
    with them when they hold displeasing nightly discourse.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
  type: quote
  locator: 22826-22828
  quote_or_summary: '"who shall plead with God for them on the day of the resurrection?"'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: 22830-22831
  quote_or_summary: Whoever does evil or acts against his own welfare and then asks
    pardon of God will find God forgiving and merciful.
  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: 22835-22837
  quote_or_summary: Whoever commits a fault or crime and lays it on the innocent bears
    guilt of calumny and manifest crime.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
  type: summary
  locator: 22839-22843
  quote_or_summary: God's grace prevents a party from misleading the addressed recipient;
    the Book and wisdom descend upon him, and God makes him know what he did not know.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: 22845-22848
  quote_or_summary: Most secret talk contains nothing good except talk enjoining almsgiving,
    what is right, or concord among people, for which God promises a great reward.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: quote
  locator: 22850-22853
  quote_or_summary: Whoever severs himself from the prophet after guidance is manifested
    will be cast into Hell, described as "an evil journey thither."
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: 22855-22857
  quote_or_summary: God will not forgive joining other gods with Himself; other sins
    may be forgiven to whom He wills.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:10
  type: quote
  locator: '22859'
  quote_or_summary: '"They call, beside Him, upon mere goddesses! they invoke a rebel
    Satan!"'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: 22861-22866
  quote_or_summary: Satan says he will take a portion of God's servants, lead them
    astray, stir desires, command cutting the ears of animals, and command alteration
    of God's creation.
  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: 22868-22871
  quote_or_summary: Satan's promises are described as beguiling; those associated
    with him have Hell as their dwelling and find no escape from it.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:13
  type: quote
  locator: 22873-22876
  quote_or_summary: Believers who do right will enter "gardens beneath which the rivers
    flow" and abide there forever.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:14
  type: summary
  locator: 22878-22884
  quote_or_summary: Evil will be recompensed; righteous male and female believers
    will enter Paradise and will not be wronged the skin of a date stone.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:15
  type: summary
  locator: 22886-22890
  quote_or_summary: The better religion is to resign oneself to God, do good, and
    follow Abraham's sincere faith; God took Abraham for His friend, and all in heaven
    and earth is God's.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:16
  type: summary
  locator: 22892-22897
  quote_or_summary: The passage gives God's instruction concerning women, female orphans
    denied legal due or marriage, weak children, and fair dealing toward orphans.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:17
  type: summary
  locator: 22899-22910
  quote_or_summary: If a wife fears ill usage or aversion, mutual agreement is allowed
    and called best; believers are warned about unequal treatment, and if spouses
    separate God can compensate 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: 22912-22919
  quote_or_summary: All in the heavens and earth belongs to God; those given Scriptures
    before and the addressed community were enjoined to fear God; God is called a
    sufficient protector.
  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: 22921-22922
  quote_or_summary: If God pleased, He could cause mankind to pass away and create
    others in their stead.
  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: 22926-22930
  quote_or_summary: Believers are commanded to stand fast to justice and bear witness
    before God, even against themselves, parents, or kindred, whether the party is
    rich or poor.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:21
  type: summary
  locator: 22932-22934
  quote_or_summary: Believers are commanded to believe in God, His Apostle, the Book
    sent down to the Apostle, the Book sent down before, angels, books, apostles,
    and the last day.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: medium
  notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit. Motif classification
    is partly constrained by available taxonomy; several patterns are ethical or doctrinal
    rather than narrative mythic episodes.
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: |-
  Extraction uses only the provided passage text and metadata. Line locators are approximate within the supplied stable range.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg__l22815-l22934
  passage_sha256=a664c35a179f970331a573e55e9951b24ec6e226d33a37096b3f5814eacc94b6