batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l25848-l25971
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l25848-l25971
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 25848-25971
start: '25848'
end: '25971'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an), Rodwell translation
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage contains translator's notes on Ark relic traditions, events
around Tabouk and Medina mosques, and the opening of Sura V, which commands believers
to keep engagements, respect sacred rites and pilgrimage restrictions, observe
dietary and sacrificial prohibitions, accept some lawful foods and marriages with
People of Scripture, and perform washing before prayer.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A note reports traditions about collecting pitch from the Ark's wood for amulets,
the continued existence of Ark fragments, and their removal from mountain al Djoudi
to a mosque.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A note says the Beni Ganim built a mosque, invited Muhammad to dedicate it,
and were described as motivated by jealousy and by an understanding with Abu Amir
against the Muslims and their mosque.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The believers are commanded to be faithful to their engagements.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The believers are told not to violate the rites of God, the sacred month,
offerings, ornaments, or people going to the sacred house; hunting is allowed
after the pilgrimage restriction is over.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage forbids carrion, blood, swine's flesh, animals sacrificed under
another name than God, animals killed by strangling, blow, fall, goring, or beasts
of prey, sacrifices on stone blocks, and division of the slain by consulting arrows.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: God is represented as saying that the religion has been perfected and divine
favour completed, with Islam chosen as the believers' religion.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Good things and prey caught by trained hunting beasts are declared lawful,
with mention of God's name over what is caught.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The meats of those who have received the Scriptures are allowed to believers,
and believers' meats are allowed to them.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Marriage is permitted with virtuous believing women and virtuous women among
those who previously received the Scriptures, under specified conditions of chastity
and provision.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: Before prayer, believers are instructed to wash their faces and hands to the
elbow and to wipe their heads and feet to the ankles.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Muhammad
description: The prophetic figure named in notes concerning his informants, attempted
killing, migration, Tabouk, and mosque dedication.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: God
description: The divine speaker and authority who ordains, prohibits, permits, punishes,
reckons, and commands fear of God.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Believers
description: The addressed community commanded to keep engagements, observe rites,
avoid prohibited foods and acts, and wash before prayer.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Beni Ganim
description: A tribe said in a note to have built a mosque and invited Muhammad
to dedicate it, while allegedly acting from jealousy and alliance with Abu Amir.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Abu Amir
description: A monk described as Muhammad's enemy, then in Syria, connected in the
note with efforts to urge Greeks to attack the Muslims and their mosque.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Those who have received the Scriptures
description: A community whose meats are permitted to believers and whose virtuous
women may be married under stated conditions.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Virtuous women
description: Women described as believers or from those who received the Scriptures,
permitted as marriage partners under conditions of provision and chastity.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lawgiver and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: God ordains what he pleases, defines lawful and forbidden acts, is severe
in punishing, and is swift to reckon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: addressed covenant community
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage repeatedly addresses 'O Believers' and gives them obligations
concerning engagements, rites, food, and prayer preparation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: role:3
label: prophetic recipient and historical actor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Notes describe Muhammad in relation to Jewish informants, Tabouk, Medina,
and an invitation to dedicate a mosque.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: rival mosque builders
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Beni Ganim are said to have built a mosque and to have invited Muhammad
to dedicate it, while their motive is described as jealousy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: external enemy allied with plotters
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Abu Amir is named as Muhammad's enemy and linked with urging Greeks to attack
Muslims and their mosque.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: scripture-receiving community in lawful exchange
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Their meats are allowed to believers, believers' meats are allowed to them,
and marriage with their virtuous women is permitted.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Ark relics
literal_form: Pitch and wood fragments from the Ark, used for amulets or carried
from one place to another in reported traditions.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- ark_vessel
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: mountain al Djoudi
literal_form: The mountain from which Ark fragments are said to have been carried
away.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: sacred house
literal_form: The sacred house toward which people press seeking favour from their
Lord.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: sacred offerings and ornaments
literal_form: Offerings and their ornaments named among rites not to be violated.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: forbidden sacrificial foods
literal_form: Blood, swine's flesh, carrion, and animals killed or sacrificed in
prohibited ways.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: stone blocks and divining arrows
literal_form: Blocks of stone for sacrifice and arrows consulted to divide the slain,
both condemned in the passage.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: prayer washing
literal_form: Washing the face and hands and wiping the head and feet before prayer.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:8
label: mosque of Kuba and rival mosque
literal_form: Mosques in Medina-area notes, including the mosque at Kuba and a mosque
built by the Beni Ganim.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Ark relic tradition
summary: A translator's note relates traditions that pitch and wood from the Ark
were collected or preserved, and that fragments were moved from mountain al Djoudi
to a mosque.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Rival mosque and hostile alliance
summary: A note says the Beni Ganim built a mosque and invited Muhammad to dedicate
it, but Muhammad discovered jealousy and an understanding with Abu Amir, who was
connected with a plan against the Muslims and their mosque.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Command to keep engagements and sacred rites
summary: Believers are instructed to keep engagements, respect divine rites and
pilgrimage-related restrictions, avoid transgression, and cooperate in goodness
and piety.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Dietary and sacrificial prohibitions
summary: The passage lists forbidden foods, prohibited sacrificial circumstances,
and condemned divination by arrows, with warnings to fear God.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Lawful food and relations with People of Scripture
summary: Good things, properly caught game, meats of the scripture-receiving community,
and certain marriages with virtuous women are declared lawful under conditions.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: Washing before prayer
summary: Believers preparing for prayer are told to wash or wipe specified body
parts.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Ark relic preservation and transfer
taxonomy_refs:
- ark_vessel
basis: The note reports traditions concerning pitch and wood of the Ark used for
amulets, surviving fragments, and transport from a mountain to a mosque.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: This appears in a translator's historical note, not in the quoted Qur'anic
verses within this passage.
- id: motif:2
label: Covenantal obedience through engagements and sacred law
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The opening command tells believers to be faithful to engagements and then
sets out sacred obligations and restrictions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage uses legal and devotional language; the taxonomy label is
applied at motif-family level.
- id: motif:3
label: Sacrifice regulated by divine name and sacred boundaries
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
basis: The passage distinguishes forbidden sacrifices under another name, sacrifice
on stone blocks, and permitted food when God's name is mentioned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The focus is legal regulation rather than a narrative sacrificial episode.
- id: motif:4
label: Divine judgment through punishment and reckoning
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The text warns that God is severe in punishing, swift to reckon, and that
one who renounces faith will be lost in the next world.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: Judgment is expressed as warning and doctrine, not as a narrated judgment
scene.
- id: motif:5
label: Ritual purification before prayer
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Believers are instructed to wash and wipe specified body parts when addressing
themselves to prayer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: No explicit taxonomy motif family for purification is provided; symbol
reference to water is inferred from the washing action.
- id: motif:6
label: Sacred precinct and pilgrimage restriction
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage names rites, sacred month, offerings, the sacred house, a temporary
hunting prohibition, and the requirement not to transgress after conflict over
the sacred mosque.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: No directly matching available motif-family taxonomy item is supplied.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The note asserts that traditions about Ark pitch, wood, and fragments reached
Muhammad through Jewish informants.
claim_level: historical_contact
target: Jewish traditions concerning surviving Ark materials or relics
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is a translator's historical assertion within a note; the passage
itself does not provide independent evidence for the transmission route.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 25848-25853
quote_or_summary: A note compares Sura liv. 15 and says traditions about pitch and
wood from the Ark, used for amulets or preserved as fragments, reached Muhammad
through Jewish informants; fragments are said to have been moved from mountain
al Djoudi to a mosque.
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 25879-25888
quote_or_summary: A note says the Beni Ganim built a mosque, invited Muhammad to
dedicate it, and that Muhammad discovered their motive was jealousy of another
tribe and mosque, with an understanding involving Abu Amir to urge Greeks against
Muslims and their mosque.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 25924-25926
quote_or_summary: '"O BELIEVERS! be faithful to your engagements."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 25928-25937
quote_or_summary: Believers are told not to violate God's rites, the sacred month,
offerings, ornaments, or those going to the sacred house; after the restriction
is over they may hunt, but must not transgress from ill will and must cooperate
in goodness and piety.
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 25939-25947
quote_or_summary: The passage forbids carrion, blood, swine's flesh, animals sacrificed
under any name other than God, animals killed in specified improper ways, prey
already eaten by beasts unless properly killed, sacrifices on stone blocks, and
division by consulting arrows.
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 25948-25952
quote_or_summary: God says the religion has been perfected, divine favours completed,
and Islam chosen as religion; forced hunger without wrongful inclination is met
with divine indulgence and mercy.
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 25954-25960
quote_or_summary: Good things are declared lawful, including prey caught by trained
hunting beasts taught as God taught; believers are to mention God's name over
it and fear God, who is swift to reckon.
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 25962-25969
quote_or_summary: Healthful things and the meats of those who received the Scriptures
are legalized; marriage with virtuous believing women and virtuous women among
those who received the Scriptures is permitted under conditions, while renouncing
faith makes works vain and leads to loss in the next world.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 25971-25971
quote_or_summary: Believers addressing themselves to prayer are instructed to wash
faces and hands to the elbow and wipe heads and feet to the ankles.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 25894-25898
quote_or_summary: A note identifies the mosque of Kuba near Medina, says Muhammad
laid the first brick, and calls it the first place of public prayer in Islam.
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: medium
notes: Most extraction is based on explicit legal and note material. Motif assignment
is strongest for covenant, sacrifice, divine judgment, and purification; the Ark
comparison and transmission claim rely on a translator's note rather than the
Qur'anic passage itself.
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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