batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l7554-l7691
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l7554-l7691
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 7554-7691
start: '7554'
end: '7691'
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: And each of them shall come to Him, on the day of Resurrection, singly
summary: The passage warns against haste over opponents, describes the gathering
of the God-fearing before the God of Mercy, the driving of sinners to Hell, restricted
intercession, rejection of the claim that the God of Mercy has offspring, cosmic
distress at that claim, universal servanthood before God, individual appearance
on the day of Resurrection, divine love for believers who do right, the Koran
made easy in the addressee's tongue for glad tidings and warning, and the destruction
of earlier generations.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker tells the addressee not to be in haste with opponents because
only a small number of days is numbered to them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The God-fearing are to be gathered before the God of Mercy with honors due.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Sinners are to be driven to Hell like flocks driven to watering.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Intercession is said to be available only to one who has received permission
from the God of Mercy.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The passage reports a claim that the God of Mercy has gotten offspring and
labels that claim monstrous.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The heavens, earth, and mountains are described as almost being violently
disrupted because a son is ascribed to the God of Mercy.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: All beings in the heavens and earth are described as approaching the God of
Mercy as servants, numbered by him exactly.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Each person is said to come to God singly on the day of Resurrection.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The God of Mercy is said to grant love to those who believe and do right things.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: The Koran is described as made easy in the addressee's own tongue for announcing
glad tidings to the God-fearing and warning the contentious.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: The passage asks how many earlier generations have been destroyed and whether
any trace or whisper of them remains.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: Rodwell's notes compare earlier parts of the sura with other Quranic passages
and with Gospel or infancy-tradition material.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God of Mercy
description: Divine figure before whom the God-fearing are gathered, who permits
intercession, rejects begetting a son, numbers all beings, receives each on the
day of Resurrection, and grants love to believers who do right.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: God-fearing
description: People gathered before the God of Mercy with honors and recipients
of glad tidings through the Koran.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: sinners
description: People driven to Hell like flocks driven to watering.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: permitted intercessor
description: A person who may intercede only after receiving permission from the
God of Mercy.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: those who ascribe offspring to the God of Mercy
description: Speakers who say that the God of Mercy has gotten offspring; the passage
calls this a monstrous thing.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: addressee of the revelation
description: The one addressed as 'thou,' told not to be hasty and given the Koran
in his own tongue to announce glad tidings and warnings.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: earlier generations
description: Past generations said to have been destroyed, leaving no searchable
presence or audible whisper.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage describes gathering, driving to Hell, permitted intercession,
exact numbering, and individual appearance before God on the day of Resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: divine mercy-giver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The figure is repeatedly called the God of Mercy and is said to grant love
to believers who do right.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: righteous recipients
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They are gathered with honors and receive glad tidings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: condemned sinners
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They are driven to Hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: authorized intercessor
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Intercession is limited to one who has permission from the God of Mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: blasphemous claimants
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They claim that the God of Mercy has gotten offspring, a claim the passage
calls monstrous.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: warner and bearer of glad tidings
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Koran is made easy in the addressee's tongue so that he may announce
glad tidings and warn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: destroyed predecessors
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Earlier generations are said to have been destroyed and no whisper is heard
from them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Hell
literal_form: Hell as the destination to which sinners are driven
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: flocks driven to watering
literal_form: Simile of sinners driven like flocks toward a watering place
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: cosmic rupture
literal_form: Heavens nearly rent, earth cleaving asunder, mountains falling in
fragments
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: exact numbering
literal_form: God has taken note of all beings and numbered them exactly
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: day of Resurrection
literal_form: The day on which each comes to God singly
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: Koran in the addressee's tongue
literal_form: The Koran made easy in the addressee's own tongue
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: silenced destroyed generations
literal_form: Destroyed generations from whom no whisper can be heard
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Delay before judgment
summary: The addressee is told not to be hasty with opponents because a limited
number of days is being counted for them.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Eschatological gathering and condemnation
summary: The God-fearing are gathered before the God of Mercy with honor, while
sinners are driven to Hell; intercession is restricted to those given permission.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Rejection of divine offspring claim
summary: A claim that the God of Mercy has offspring is condemned as monstrous,
and the cosmos is described as nearly rupturing at the ascription of a son to
God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Individual resurrection appearance
summary: All beings are servants known and numbered by the God of Mercy, and each
comes to him singly on the day of Resurrection; love is granted to believers who
do right.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Revealed message for glad tidings and warning
summary: The Koran is made easy in the addressee's tongue to announce glad tidings
to the God-fearing and warnings to the contentious.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Destroyed generations recalled
summary: The passage asks whether any sign or whisper remains from the many generations
destroyed before the current audience.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Final divine judgment separating righteous and sinners
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contrasts honored gathering of the God-fearing with sinners driven
to Hell and limits intercession by divine permission.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a compact eschatological judgment scene rather than
an extended judgment narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: Resurrection appearance before God
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Each being is said to come to God singly on the day of Resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: No detailed resurrection mechanics are described in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: Rejected divine parent-child attribution
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_parent_child
basis: The passage reports and rejects the claim that the God of Mercy has offspring
or a son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The motif appears polemically as a denied claim, not as an affirmed divine
parent-child relationship.
- id: motif:4
label: Cosmic disturbance at theological transgression
taxonomy_refs:
- chaos
basis: The heavens, earth, and mountains are described as almost rupturing when
a son is ascribed to the God of Mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage describes near cosmic rupture rhetorically; it is not a full
creation-chaos combat or world-destruction episode.
- id: motif:5
label: Destroyed former generations as warning
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Past generations are said to have been destroyed, with no remaining voice
or trace, as part of the warning discourse.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The identities and specific causes of destruction are not supplied in
this excerpt.
- id: motif:6
label: Revelation made easy as admonitory wisdom
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Koran is described as made easy in the addressee's own tongue for glad
tidings and warning.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage emphasizes revelation and
admonition more than wisdom instruction as such.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: Rodwell's note explicitly compares the first thirty-seven verses of this
sura with Sura iii. 35-57 and characterizes the sura as an early Quranic Gospel-history
passage.
claim_level: same_function
target: Sura iii. 35-57 and Quranic Gospel-history material
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is a translator's comparative note about earlier verses of the
sura, not a comparison made by the Quranic speaker within the selected canonical
excerpt.
- id: claim:2
claim: Rodwell's notes connect elements of the Mary and Jesus infancy material in
the sura with Luke, Protevangelium of James, apocryphal infancy traditions, and
a Latona parallel.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: Gospel, apocryphal infancy, and classical Latona-related birth traditions
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The comparison is supplied by the translator's notes and concerns earlier
annotated verses; the provided excerpt does not itself narrate the infancy scenes.
- id: claim:3
claim: Rodwell's note compares Edris/Enoch with Genesis 5:24 and later Jewish traditions
about figures exempted from death and taken to Paradise.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Enoch ascent or death-exemption traditions in Genesis and later Jewish literature
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This comparison is from a note about an earlier verse and does not
appear in the canonical lines immediately preceding the notes.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 7554-7555
quote_or_summary: "“be not thou in haste with them”; a small number of days is numbered
to them."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 7557-7563
quote_or_summary: The God-fearing are gathered before the God of Mercy; sinners
are driven to Hell like flocks to watering; intercession requires permission from
the God of Mercy.
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 7565-7573
quote_or_summary: The claim that the God of Mercy has offspring is called monstrous;
heavens, earth, and mountains nearly rupture because a son is ascribed to him,
though it does not befit him to beget a son.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 7575-7582
quote_or_summary: All in heaven and earth approach as servants; God has numbered
them exactly; “each of them shall come to Him, on the day of Resurrection, singly”;
God grants love to believers who do right.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 7584-7587
quote_or_summary: The Koran is made easy in the addressee's own tongue so he may
give glad tidings to the God-fearing and warn the contentious.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 7589-7590
quote_or_summary: "“How many generations have we destroyed before them!” The passage
asks whether any one of them can be searched out or heard as a whisper."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: note 1 within lines 7594-7602
quote_or_summary: Rodwell compares the first 37 verses of the sura with Sura iii.
35-57, discusses Muhammad's style in later suras, and calls the sura one of the
fullest and earliest Quranic Gospel histories.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: notes 4, 6-13 within lines 7613-7648
quote_or_summary: Rodwell's notes mention Luke, the Protevangelium of James, Gabriel,
divine will in Jesus' conception, an infant or Gabriel speaking, the palm tree,
apocryphal infancy material, and a Latona comparison.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: notes 20-21 within lines 7662-7669
quote_or_summary: Rodwell identifies Edris with Enoch, notes a derivation connected
to searching out divine mysteries, and compares Genesis 5:24 and Jewish traditions
about figures exempted from death and taken to Paradise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: low
notes: The main Quranic excerpt clearly supports eschatological judgment, resurrection,
anti-divine-offspring polemic, and warning motifs. Comparison claims come from
Rodwell's notes, many of which refer to earlier parts of the sura rather than
the immediately preceding canonical excerpt.
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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