batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l26203-l26315
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l26203-l26315
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 26203-26315
start: '26203'
end: '26315'
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 exhorts believers to remain loyal to God, His Apostle, and
the community of believers; warns against taking mockers of religion as friends;
addresses the People of the Book concerning belief, law, covenant, past rejection
of apostles, and claims about the Messiah; describes divine curse, anger, transformation,
forgiveness, punishment, reward, and final accountability.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage says that if believers desert God's religion, God will raise up
a people loved by Him and loving Him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage identifies God, His Apostle, and believing worshippers who pray
and give alms as protectors or friends of the believers.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Believers are told not to take as friends those among earlier scripture-recipients
or infidels who mock their religion or ridicule the call to prayer.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker asks the People of the Book whether they reject the believers
because of belief in God and in what was sent down then and before.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage says God cursed and was angry with some people, changed some of
them into apes and swine, and describes worshippers of Thagout as astray.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Some people are described as saying they believe when presenting themselves,
while concealing unbelief.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Many are described as hastening to wickedness, malice, and eating unlawful
things, while doctors and teachers are faulted for not forbidding such conduct.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The Jews are reported as saying that God's hand is chained; the passage replies
that their own hands shall be chained and that God's hands are outstretched.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The passage says enmity and hatred were put between them until the day of
Resurrection, and that whenever they kindle a beacon fire for war, God will quench
it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: If the People of the Book believe, fear God, and observe the Law, the Evangel,
and what was sent down, the passage promises removal of sins, gardens of delight,
and good things from above and beneath.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The Apostle is commanded to proclaim all that has been sent down from his
Lord, and God is said to protect him from evil men.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: The passage says God accepted the covenant of the children of Israel and sent
apostles to them; some apostles were treated as liars and some were slain.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: The passage describes people becoming blind and deaf, then God turning toward
them, and then many again becoming blind and deaf.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: Claims that God is the Messiah, Son of Mary, and that God is the third of
three are rejected; worship of one God is affirmed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: obs:15
text: The Messiah is described as an Apostle, his mother as a just person, and both
as eating food.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:16
text: The passage says unbelieving children of Israel were cursed by the tongue
of David and of Jesus, Son of Mary.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:17
text: Those who join other gods with God are said to be forbidden the Garden and
to have the Fire as their abode.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Divine speaker and actor who raises a people, loves, bestows grace,
curses, becomes angry, changes some into apes and swine, forgives, judges, protects
the Apostle, and commands worship.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:14
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: His Apostle / the Apostle
description: The messenger associated with God, named as protector with God and
commanded to proclaim what has been sent down.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:11
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Believers
description: Those addressed as believing, warned not to desert religion, and instructed
concerning friends, worship, prayer, alms, and fear of God.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: People raised by God
description: A people loved by God and loving Him, lowly toward the faithful, haughty
toward infidels, contending for God's cause without fearing blame.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: People of the Book / those who received the Scriptures before
description: A group addressed about belief, scripture, law, the Evangel, conduct,
covenantal history, and claims concerning the Messiah.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Jews
description: A named group reported as saying that God's hand is chained.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Worshippers of Thagout
description: Those described as worshipping Thagout, being in evil plight, and having
gone astray from the right path.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Doctors and teachers
description: Religious authorities faulted for not forbidding wicked utterance and
unlawful food.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Children of Israel
description: A group with whom God accepted a covenant and to whom apostles were
sent; some are later described as cursed for rebellion and transgression.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:17
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Messiah, Son of Mary / Jesus, Son of Mary
description: Described as speaking to the children of Israel, as an Apostle, and
as one whose tongue cursed unbelieving children of Israel.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Mary
description: The mother of the Messiah, described as a just person who ate food.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: David
description: Named as one by whose tongue unbelieving children of Israel were cursed.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Infidels / unbelievers
description: Those contrasted with believers, associated with mockery, unbelief,
rebellion, and in some cases taking others as friends.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:14
- ev:18
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is described as cursing, becoming angry, forbidding the Garden, assigning
the Fire, and promising chastisement or forgiveness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: role:2
label: divine benefactor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God bestows grace and gifts, removes sins, brings people into gardens of
delight, and provides good things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: divine protector
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is called protector and is said to protect the Apostle from evil men.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:11
- id: role:4
label: apostle or messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:10
basis: The Apostle is commanded to proclaim what is sent down; the Messiah is described
as an Apostle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:16
- id: role:5
label: addressed faithful community
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage repeatedly addresses 'O ye who believe' and instructs them on
loyalty, worship, and friendship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: divinely raised loyal people
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: God will raise a people loved by Him and loving Him, who contend for God's
cause.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:7
label: scripture-recipient interlocutors
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The People of the Book are addressed about prior scripture, the Law, the
Evangel, belief, and conduct.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- ev:14
- id: role:8
label: reported blasphemous speakers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Jews are reported as saying that God's hand is chained, and the passage
responds with curse and correction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: idolatrous or false-object worshippers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: They are described as worshipping Thagout and going astray from the right
path.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: failed moral authorities
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Doctors and teachers are faulted for not forbidding wicked speech and unlawful
food.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: covenant community
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: God is said to have accepted the covenant of the children of Israel and sent
apostles to them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:12
label: prophetic curse speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:12
basis: Unbelieving children of Israel are said to have been cursed by the tongue
of David and of Jesus, Son of Mary.
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: role:13
label: just mother of the Messiah
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Mary is identified as the Messiah's mother and as a just person.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: role:14
label: unbelieving opponents
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: Infidels and unbelievers are described as mocking, rebelling, and facing
divine non-guidance or punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:11
- ev:14
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Garden
literal_form: Garden / gardens of delight
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:14
- id: sym:2
label: Fire
literal_form: the Fire as an abode for those who join other gods with God
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:3
label: beacon fire for war
literal_form: a beacon fire kindled for war and quenched by God
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:4
label: chained and outstretched hands
literal_form: the claim that God's hand is chained, the reply that their hands shall
be chained, and that God's hands are outstretched
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: apes and swine
literal_form: forms into which some cursed and angered people were changed
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: blindness and deafness
literal_form: becoming blind and deaf, then again becoming blind and deaf
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:7
label: food
literal_form: the Messiah and his mother both ate food; unlawful food is also mentioned
earlier
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:10
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:16
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Loyal people raised after desertion
summary: Believers are warned that if any desert God's religion, God will raise
a people loved by Him and loving Him, who contend for God's cause.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Alliance and worship boundaries
summary: Believers are told to take God, His Apostle, and the faithful as protectors
or friends, and not to take mockers of religion or ridiculers of prayer as friends.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:13
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Rebuke of the People of the Book
summary: The People of the Book are questioned about rejecting believers, and some
are described as cursed, transformed, astray, concealing unbelief, and committing
wickedness.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Divine hands and quenched war fire
summary: The reported saying that God's hand is chained is answered by a curse,
a declaration of God's outstretched hands, and the claim that God quenches beacon
fires kindled for war.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Conditional reward for scripture observance
summary: If the People of the Book believe, fear God, and observe the Law, the Evangel,
and what was sent down, their sins will be removed and they will enter gardens
of delight and receive good things.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:6
label: Command to proclaim revelation
summary: The Apostle is commanded to proclaim everything sent down from his Lord,
with assurance of God's protection from evil men.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:13
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:7
label: Covenant and rejected apostles
summary: God accepted the covenant of the children of Israel and sent apostles to
them, but some apostles were called liars and some were slain; the people are
then described as becoming blind and deaf.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: scene:8
label: Correction of claims about the Messiah
summary: Claims that God is the Messiah or the third of three are rejected; worship
of one God is affirmed, the Messiah is described as an Apostle, and Mary as just.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: scene:9
label: Curse by David and Jesus and warning against corrupt alliances
summary: Unbelieving children of Israel are said to be cursed by David and Jesus
for rebellion and transgression; many are described as making friends with infidels
and facing divine anger and lasting torment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:12
- fig:13
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:18
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divinely loved reciprocal community
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: God will raise a people who are loved by Him and who love Him, marked by
loyalty and striving in God's cause.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is communal rather than an individual beloved narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: covenant accepted and messengers rejected
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: God accepted the covenant of the children of Israel and sent apostles, but
some were rejected as liars or slain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: The passage summarizes covenant history rather than narrating the covenant-making
event in detail.
- id: motif:3
label: divine judgment through curse, punishment, and afterlife destinations
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: God curses, becomes angry, transforms some people, forbids the Garden to
those who join other gods with God, and assigns the Fire as an abode.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:14
- ev:15
confidence: high
cautions: Several judgment statements are compressed exhortations rather than a
single extended judgment scene.
- id: motif:4
label: afterlife reward and punishment imagery
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The passage contrasts gardens of delight and the Garden with the Fire and
grievous chastisement as consequences of belief or unbelief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:14
- ev:15
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage names destinations and outcomes but does not describe a journey
through the afterlife.
- id: motif:5
label: punitive transformation into animals
taxonomy_refs:
- shapeshifter
basis: The passage says God changed some cursed and angered people into apes and
swine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy label 'shapeshifter' is only approximate, since the transformation
is imposed as punishment and not voluntary shape-shifting.
- id: motif:6
label: prophetic proclamation under divine protection
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Apostle is commanded to proclaim all that was sent down and is assured
that God will protect him from evil men.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly matches proclamation protected
by God.
- id: motif:7
label: quenched war fire
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Whenever opponents kindle a beacon fire for war, God is said to quench it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The statement is metaphorical or emblematic in translation, but the extraction
records only the literal image of a war fire being quenched.
- id: motif:8
label: spiritual blindness and deafness after covenant violation
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: After rejecting apostles, the people are described as becoming blind and
deaf, receiving God's turning toward them, and many again becoming blind and deaf.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not specify whether the blindness and deafness are literal,
moral, or spiritual; the motif label is therefore cautious.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 26203-26207
quote_or_summary: "“God will then raise up a people loved by Him, and loving Him”
who contend for God’s cause."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 26208-26214
quote_or_summary: God, His Apostle, and believing worshippers who pray, give alms,
and bow are named as protectors or friends; those who take them as friends are
called the people of God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 26215-26222
quote_or_summary: Believers are told not to take as friends those who received earlier
scriptures or infidels who scoff at religion or ridicule the call to prayer.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 26223-26227
quote_or_summary: The People of the Book are asked whether they reject the believers
only because of belief in God and in what was sent down then and before.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 26228-26232
quote_or_summary: God cursed and was angry with some, and “changed” some “into apes
and swine”; worshippers of Thagout are described as astray.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 26233-26236
quote_or_summary: Some presented themselves saying they believed, but came and went
as infidels, while God knew what they concealed.
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: lines 26237-26243
quote_or_summary: Many hasten to wickedness, malice, and unlawful food; doctors
and teachers are faulted for not forbidding wicked speech and unlawful eating.
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: lines 26244-26250
quote_or_summary: The Jews say, “The hand of God is chained up”; the reply says
their hands shall be chained and that God’s hands are outstretched.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation used.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 26250-26255
quote_or_summary: Enmity and hatred will last until the day of Resurrection; “Oft
as they kindle a beacon fire for war shall God quench it.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation used.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 26256-26263
quote_or_summary: If the People of the Book believe, fear God, and observe the Law,
the Evangel, and what was sent down, their sins will be removed, they will enter
gardens of delight, and they will receive good things from above and beneath.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 26264-26268
quote_or_summary: The Apostle is commanded to proclaim all sent down from his Lord;
if not, he has not proclaimed the message, and God will protect him from evil
men.
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: lines 26278-26282
quote_or_summary: God accepted the covenant of the children of Israel and sent apostles
to them; some apostles were treated as liars and some were slain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 26283-26286
quote_or_summary: They thought no harm would come, became blind and deaf, God turned
toward them, and many again became blind and deaf.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 26287-26292
quote_or_summary: The claim that God is the Messiah, Son of Mary, is rejected; the
Messiah says to worship God, and whoever joins other gods with God is forbidden
the Garden and has the Fire as abode.
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: lines 26293-26298
quote_or_summary: The claim that God is the third of three is rejected; one God
is affirmed, with warning of grievous chastisement and invitation to ask pardon
of God.
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: lines 26299-26303
quote_or_summary: The Messiah, Son of Mary, is described as an Apostle; his mother
is described as just; both are said to have eaten food.
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: lines 26308-26312
quote_or_summary: Unbelieving children of Israel were cursed by the tongue of David
and of Jesus, Son of Mary, because they rebelled, transgressed, and failed to
forbid iniquity.
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: lines 26313-26315
quote_or_summary: Many are described as making friends of infidels; God is angry
with them and they remain in torment, while belief would have prevented such alliances.
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: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif confidence is high
for explicit covenant, divine judgment, and divine-beloved elements, and lower
where available taxonomy labels only partially fit the passage.
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: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not make a distinct comparative claim beyond references to the People of the Book, Law, Evangel, David, Jesus, and Mary.
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