batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l24973-l25111
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l24973-l25111
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 24973-25111
start: '24973'
end: '25111'
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 warns that kinship will not avail on the day of resurrection;
presents Abraham and his followers as an example of renouncing idolatrous worship
while trusting God; regulates relations with hostile and non-hostile outsiders;
gives rules for believing women who come as refugees and for pledges made by believing
women to the Prophet; commands avoidance of those under God's anger; briefly presents
divine help and victory with people entering God's religion; and gives etiquette
for believers in relation to God, the Apostle, the Prophet's apartments, and reports
brought by questionable persons.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Kindred and children are said not to avail on the day of resurrection, when
a severance will be made and God beholds actions.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Abraham and those who followed him are presented as a good example when they
declare themselves clear of their people and of worship beside God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speakers in the Abraham example declare renunciation, enmity until belief
in God alone, trust in God, return to God, and ask not to be exposed for trial
to unbelievers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The passage distinguishes people who have not fought or expelled the believers,
toward whom kindness and fairness are not forbidden, from those who have fought,
expelled, or aided expulsion, with whom friendship is forbidden.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Believing women who come as refugees are to be tested; if their faith is ascertained,
they are not to be returned to the infidels.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The passage gives instructions concerning dowers when believing refugee women
are not returned and when wives escape to the infidels.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Believing women who come to the Prophet pledge not to associate anything with
God, steal, commit adultery, kill their children, bring scandalous charges, or
disobey in what is right.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The Prophet is told to plight his faith to the pledging women and ask God's
pardon for them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Believers are told not to enter amity with those against whom God is angered,
who despair of the life to come as infidels despair of the inmates of tombs.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: When God's help and victory arrive and people enter God's religion by troops,
the addressee is instructed to praise the Lord and implore pardon.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Believers are instructed not to act before God and His Apostle permit, not
to raise their voices above the Prophet's voice, and to lower their voices in
the Apostle's presence.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: Those who call out while the Prophet is within his apartments are said mostly
to lack right perception; waiting until he comes forth is said to be better.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: If a bad man comes with news, believers are instructed to clear it up at once
to avoid harming others through ignorance and later repenting.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine figure who beholds actions, is trusted, receives return,
ordains rules, knows faith, grants pardon and mercy, gives help and victory, and
permits action with His Apostle.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Believers
description: The addressed community instructed about resurrection, Abraham's example,
relations with outsiders, refugee women, oaths, amity, and etiquette toward God,
the Apostle, and the Prophet.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Abraham
description: A named exemplary figure whose speech to his people and to his father
is invoked for imitation with a specified exception.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Followers of Abraham
description: Those associated with Abraham in the good example, declaring separation
from their people and trust in God.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Abraham's father
description: The figure to whom Abraham says he will pray for forgiveness, while
stating he can obtain nothing for him from God.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Unbelievers, infidels, or enemies
description: Outsiders described in several categories, including those who worship
beside God, those who do or do not make war on believers, and those to whom wives
may escape.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Believing women refugees
description: Women who come over to the believers as refugees and are to be tested
for faith before being retained rather than returned.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Prophet / Apostle of God
description: The addressed or referenced prophetic authority who receives pledges,
whose voice should not be overraised, and who is within the apartments before
coming forth.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Believing women who pledge
description: Women who come to the Prophet and pledge abstention from specified
acts and obedience in what is right.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Men entering the religion of God by troops
description: Groups seen entering God's religion when divine help and victory arrive.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Bad man with news
description: A person whose report is to be investigated before action is taken.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge, knower, and pardoner
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God beholds actions, knows faith, ordains, is described as Knowing and Wise,
and grants pardon and mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: addressed covenant community
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The believers receive commands about loyalty, fairness, legal restitution,
pledges, worship, and behavior toward the Prophet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: exemplar of renunciation of false worship
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: Abraham and his followers are named as a good example when they renounce
people and objects worshipped beside God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: supplicants trusting God
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Abrahamic speakers declare trust in God, return to God, and ask forgiveness
and protection from trial.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: outsider group subject to differentiated treatment
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The passage distinguishes outsiders who have not fought or expelled believers
from those who have fought, expelled, or aided expulsion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: tested refugees
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Believing women who come as refugees are to be tested and, if faithful, not
returned to infidels.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: prophetic authority and pledge receiver
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The Prophet receives the pledge of believing women, is to ask pardon for
them, and is owed regulated speech etiquette by believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: pledging adherents
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The believing women make a pledge with specified prohibitions and obedience
in what is right.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: unreliable messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: A bad man bringing news prompts the command to verify it before acting.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: day of resurrection
literal_form: the day of the resurrection
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: severance of kinship ties
literal_form: a severance between you
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: pledge to the Prophet
literal_form: pledge themselves; plight thou thy faith to them
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: dowers and restitution
literal_form: dowers and repayment of what was spent
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: tombs
literal_form: the inmates of the tombs
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: divine help and victory
literal_form: the HELP of God and the victory
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: apartments
literal_form: thine apartments
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: lowered voice
literal_form: lower their voices in the presence of the Apostle of God
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Resurrection severance
summary: The believers are warned that kinship and children will not help on the
day of resurrection, when separation is made and God observes actions.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Abrahamic renunciation and supplication
summary: Abraham and his followers serve as an example by renouncing worship beside
God, declaring separation until belief in God alone, and turning to God in trust
and prayer.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Rules for relations with outsiders
summary: The passage permits kindness and fairness toward those who have not fought
or expelled believers, but forbids friendship with those who fought, expelled,
or aided expulsion.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Testing and retaining believing women refugees
summary: Believing women who come as refugees are to be tested for faith; if confirmed,
they are not returned to infidels, and dower restitution rules apply.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Pledge of believing women
summary: Believing women pledge to avoid association with other objects of worship,
theft, adultery, killing children, scandalous charges, and disobedience in what
is right; the Prophet is to accept the pledge and ask God's pardon.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Avoiding amity with those under anger
summary: Believers are told not to form amity with those against whom God is angered,
who despair of the life to come as infidels despair of the inmates of tombs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Help, victory, and praise
summary: When God's help and victory arrive and people enter God's religion in troops,
the addressee is told to praise the Lord and ask pardon.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Etiquette and verification around the Prophet
summary: Believers are instructed to wait for divine and apostolic permission, lower
their voices before the Prophet, avoid calling into his apartments, and verify
reports from a bad man.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: resurrection and divine judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage names the day of resurrection, states that kinship will not avail,
and says God beholds actions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is admonitory and legal-ethical rather than a narrative afterlife
journey.
- id: motif:2
label: renunciation for exclusive divine allegiance
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: Abraham and his followers renounce their people and worship beside God until
belief in God alone, while affirming trust and return to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage uses Abraham as an example but does not narrate a formal covenant
ceremony in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: community boundary through testing and pledge
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
- initiation
basis: Believing women refugees are tested, and women who come to the Prophet make
a pledge with specified ethical and religious obligations.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The language is juridical and communal; classification as initiation is
functional rather than explicitly ritualized in the excerpt.
- id: motif:4
label: regulated restitution in sacred community relations
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The passage regulates repayment of dowers between believers and unbelievers
when women change communal affiliation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The exchange is legal and marital; the sacred dimension comes from its
presentation as God's ordinance.
- id: motif:5
label: divine help followed by mass conversion and praise
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: When God's help and victory arrive, people enter God's religion by troops,
and the addressee is told to praise and seek pardon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: low
cautions: The available taxonomy has no exact conquest/victory or conversion motif;
'return' only partly fits the instruction to turn in praise and seek pardon.
- id: motif:6
label: wisdom through verification of reports
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Believers are instructed to clear up news brought by a bad man to avoid harm
done through ignorance and later repentance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: This is an ethical instruction rather than a wisdom tale.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 24973-24975
quote_or_summary: Kin and children will not avail on the day of resurrection; a
severance will be made, and God beholds actions.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 24977-24987
quote_or_summary: Abraham and his followers are a good example when they renounce
their people and worship beside God, speak of enmity until belief in God alone,
and turn to God in trust and supplication; Abraham's prayer for his father is
excepted from imitation.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 24993-25002
quote_or_summary: God does not forbid kindness and fairness toward those who have
not fought or expelled the believers, but forbids friendship with those who fought,
expelled, or aided expulsion.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 25004-25017
quote_or_summary: Believing women who come as refugees are to be tested; if confirmed
in faith, they are not returned to infidels, and dower repayment rules are given
for marriages and wives who leave.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 25019-25024
quote_or_summary: Believing women pledge before the Prophet not to associate anything
with God, steal, commit adultery, kill children, bring scandalous charges, or
disobey in what is right; the Prophet is to plight faith to them and ask pardon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 25026-25028
quote_or_summary: Believers are told not to enter amity with those against whom
God is angered; they despair of the life to come as infidels despair of the inmates
of tombs.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 25056-25062
quote_or_summary: When the help of God and victory arrive and men enter God's religion
by troops, the addressee is told to praise the Lord and implore pardon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 25075-25111
quote_or_summary: Believers are instructed not to act before God and the Apostle
permit, not to raise voices above the Prophet, to wait rather than call into his
apartments, and to verify news brought by a bad man.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is primarily admonitory, legal, and ethical. Motif candidates
are based on explicit resurrection, pledge, divine ordinance, and verification
language; no cross-tradition comparison claims are made because the passage does
not itself establish them.
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'
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