batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l2506-l2739
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l2506-l2739
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 2506-2739
start: '2506'
end: '2739'
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 presents several short Meccan suras and notes. It describes
reward for believers in gardens with rivers, divine vengeance and sovereignty,
the preserved Table, and multiple scenes of the Last Day: the Blow, the Earthquake,
the Cleaving, and the Folding Up. Human deeds are weighed, recorded, revealed,
and judged; the righteous receive delight or Paradise, while the wicked face the
pit, Hell-fire, and a raging fire. Cosmic signs include quaking earth, cleaving
heaven, falling stars, boiling or mingled seas, moving mountains, opened graves,
unrolled records, and assembled creatures. The passage also defends the revealed
warning as the word conveyed by an illustrious messenger, identified in a note
as Gabriel.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Believers who do right are promised gardens beneath whose shades rivers flow.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God is described as producing all things, causing them to return, being indulgent
and loving, possessing a glorious throne, and doing what he wills.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The Koran is described as glorious and written on the preserved Table.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: On the day called the Blow, men are likened to scattered moths and mountains
to flocks of carded wool.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Balances distinguish those with heavy balances, who receive a pleasing life,
from those with light balances, whose dwelling-place is the pit described as a
raging fire.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: During the Earthquake, the earth quakes, casts forth her burdens, tells her
tidings, and humans come forward in throngs to behold their works.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Good or evil as small as an atom's weight is said to be beheld by the one
who performed it.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: During the Cleaving, heaven cleaves, stars disperse, seas are commingled,
graves are turned upside down, and each soul recognizes its actions.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: Guardians are described as illustrious recorders who know human actions.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: The righteous dwell amid delights, while the impure are burned in Hell-fire
on the day of doom.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:11
text: On the day of doom, one soul is powerless for another, and sovereignty belongs
to God.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:12
text: During the Folding Up, the sun is folded up, stars fall, mountains move, she-camels
are abandoned, wild beasts gather, seas boil, souls are paired with their bodies,
the Book is unrolled, heaven is stripped away, Hell blazes, and Paradise is brought
near.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:13
text: A female child buried alive is asked for what crime she was put to death.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:14
text: The revelation is called the word of an illustrious Messenger, powerful and
trusted, obeyed by angels, and associated in a note with Gabriel.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:15
text: The prophet's compatriot is denied to be possessed by djinn, a soothsayer
grasping at heaven's secrets, or one teaching from a cursed Satan.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:16
text: A translator note reports that some interpreters connect an earlier fire-pit
passage with Dhu Nowas and Christians in Yemen, while Geiger and Nöldeke connect
it with Daniel iii; the note also cautions that early suras contain little allusion
to Jewish or Christian legends.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: The divine sovereign, creator, inspirer of the earth, possessor of
the throne, judge, and ruler on the day of doom.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Believers / righteous
description: Those who believe and do right; those whose balances are heavy; those
who dwell amid delights or receive Paradise.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Impure / deniers / those with light balances
description: Those who deny judgment or whose balances are light, associated with
the pit, Hell-fire, and punishment.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Human souls / men
description: Humans and souls who come forward, behold their works, recognize actions,
and are powerless for one another on the day of doom.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Earth
description: The earth quakes, casts forth burdens, and tells her tidings after
being inspired by the Lord.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Guardians / illustrious recorders
description: Beings set over humans, cognisant of their actions and recording them.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Illustrious Messenger / Gabriel
description: A powerful, trusted messenger obeyed by angels; a note identifies him
as Gabriel.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Female child buried alive
description: A child buried alive who is asked for what crime she was put to death.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Pharaoh and Themoud
description: Hosts named as examples in a brief rhetorical reference.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge and sovereign
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: All sovereignty belongs to God on the day of doom; vengeance, judgment, punishment,
and reward are attributed to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: creator and restorer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to produce all things and cause them to return, and to create
and shape humans.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: rewarded righteous
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Believers and the righteous receive gardens, a pleasing life, delights, or
Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: punished wicked
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Those with light balances and the impure are assigned to the pit or Hell-fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: judged souls
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Humans and souls behold their works, recognize actions, and receive judgment
according to deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: witnessing earth
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The earth tells her tidings after being inspired by the Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: recording guardians
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The guardians are called illustrious recorders cognisant of human actions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: trusted revelation messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The message is described as the word of a powerful, trusted messenger obeyed
by angels; the note identifies this figure as Gabriel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: wronged child witness
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The buried female child is questioned about the crime for which she was killed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: gardens with rivers
literal_form: Gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: preserved Table
literal_form: The preserved Table on which the glorious Koran is written
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: balances
literal_form: Heavy and light balances used to distinguish destinies
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: pit / raging fire / Hell-fire
literal_form: The pit, raging fire, blazing Hell, and Hell-fire
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: quaking earth
literal_form: Earth quaking, casting forth burdens, and speaking tidings
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: cleaving heaven and falling stars
literal_form: Heaven cleaves or is stripped away; stars disperse or fall
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: mountains transformed or moved
literal_form: Mountains like carded wool and mountains set in motion
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: opened graves and returned bodies
literal_form: Graves turned upside down and souls paired with their bodies
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:9
label: unrolled Book
literal_form: Leaves of the Book unrolled
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:10
label: boiling or commingled seas
literal_form: Seas commingled and seas boiling
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Reward, vengeance, and preserved revelation
summary: The passage promises gardens with rivers to believers, affirms the Lord's
vengeance and creative power, recalls Pharaoh and Themoud, and describes the Koran
as written on the preserved Table.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: The Blow and weighed destinies
summary: A day called the Blow is marked by humans like scattered moths, mountains
like carded wool, and destinies assigned by heavy or light balances.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: The Earthquake and disclosure of deeds
summary: The earth quakes, expels burdens, reports its tidings, and humans come
in throngs to behold even atom-weight good or evil deeds.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: The Cleaving and day of doom
summary: Heaven cleaves, stars disperse, seas are mingled, graves are overturned,
deeds are recognized, recorders observe actions, and souls face divine sovereignty
and judgment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:6
- sym:8
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: The Folding Up and cosmic reversal
summary: The sun, stars, mountains, beasts, seas, bodies, record-book, heaven, Hell,
and Paradise all undergo end-time transformations, and every soul knows what it
has produced.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Authentication of the warning
summary: The passage swears by celestial and temporal signs that the warning is
the word of a trusted messenger; it denies possession by djinn, soothsaying, or
Satanic teaching.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: final judgment by deeds
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Multiple suras describe the day when deeds are weighed, seen, recognized,
recorded, and judged under God's sovereignty.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents judgment scenes rather than a single continuous narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: afterlife reward and punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The righteous are assigned gardens, delights, a pleasing life, or Paradise,
while the wicked face the pit, Hell-fire, and blazing fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy list does not include a separate heaven-and-hell motif, so
this is grouped under divine judgment.
- id: motif:3
label: cosmic dissolution at the end time
taxonomy_refs:
- chaos
basis: Heaven cleaves or is stripped away, stars disperse or fall, mountains are
transformed or moved, seas are mingled or boil, and the sun is folded up.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames these signs as eschatological, not as primordial chaos.
- id: motif:4
label: resurrection or restoration of embodied souls
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Graves are turned upside down and souls are paired with their bodies before
each soul knows its deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states grave-opening and soul-body pairing but does not narrate
individual resurrection episodes.
- id: motif:5
label: heavenly record of deeds
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Guardians are illustrious recorders cognisant of actions, and the leaves
of the Book are unrolled before judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy has no explicit 'book of deeds' motif; 'wisdom'
is only a loose fit.
- id: motif:6
label: revealed warning through a trusted messenger
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The revelation is presented as a warning to all creatures and as the word
of a powerful, trusted messenger obeyed by angels.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The motif concerns authorization of revelation more than wisdom in a general
mythic sense.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: A translator note reports that commentators commonly relate an earlier fire-pit
passage to Dhu Nowas and Christians in Yemen, while Geiger and Nöldeke understand
it as connected with Daniel iii.
claim_level: historical_contact
target: Dhu Nowas tradition and Daniel iii fire episode
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: low
limitations: This is a secondary note within the passage, not a claim made by the
sura text itself; the note explicitly cautions that early suras contain little
allusion to Jewish or Christian legends.
- id: claim:2
claim: The translator note compares the gathering of wild beasts on judgment day
with a Babylonian Talmud passage about beasts assembling on the day to come.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Babylonian Talmud, Erchin 3, beasts assembling at judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The comparison is supplied only in a translator note and is limited
to one image within the broader eschatological scene.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 2506-2536
quote_or_summary: Believers who do right receive gardens with rivers; the Lord's
vengeance is terrible; God produces and returns all things, possesses the glorious
throne, recalls Pharaoh and Themoud, surrounds deniers, and the Koran is written
on the preserved Table.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: Sura CI, lines 2557-2575
quote_or_summary: 'The Blow is described: men are like scattered moths, mountains
like carded wool, heavy balances lead to a pleasing life, and light balances lead
to the pit, a raging fire.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: Sura XCIX, lines 2581-2597
quote_or_summary: 'The Earthquake: earth quakes, casts forth burdens, tells tidings
by the Lord''s inspiration, and people come forward to behold atom-weight good
or evil works.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: Sura LXXXII, lines 2599-2637
quote_or_summary: 'The Cleaving: heaven cleaves, stars disperse, seas mingle, graves
are overturned, souls recognize actions, guardians record deeds, the righteous
are in delights, the impure in Hell-fire, and sovereignty belongs to God on the
day of doom.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: Sura LXXXI, lines 2641-2683
quote_or_summary: 'The Folding Up: sun folded up, stars fall, mountains move, beasts
gather, seas boil, souls pair with bodies, buried female child is questioned,
Book is unrolled, heaven stripped away, Hell blazes, Paradise is brought near,
and each soul knows what it produced.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: Sura LXXXI, lines 2685-2709 and note 6
quote_or_summary: The passage swears by stars, night, and dawn that this is the
word of an illustrious Messenger, powerful, trusted, obeyed by angels; the prophet
is not possessed or Satan-taught. Note 6 identifies the messenger as Gabriel.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: note 3 after Sura LXXXV, lines 2542-2549
quote_or_summary: The note says commentators often connect the fire-pit material
with Dhu Nowas and Christians in Yemen; Geiger and Nöldeke understand it of Daniel
iii, while the note cautions that early suras have little allusion to Jewish or
Christian legends.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: note 2 after Sura LXXXI, lines 2715-2716
quote_or_summary: The note compares the gathering of wild beasts with Babylonian
Talmud Erchin 3, where all beasts assemble on the day of judgment.
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: low
notes: Core observations are directly supported by the passage. Motif labels use
the supplied taxonomy where close matches exist. Comparison claims are limited
to translator notes and therefore require review.
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: '2026-04-28'
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