batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l9030-l9193
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l9030-l9193
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 9030-9193
start: '9030'
end: '9193'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an), Rodwell
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage rebukes those who reject the Book and warning, affirms God
as creator, sovereign, giver of life and death, and Lord of the heavens and throne,
rejects divine offspring or partner gods, instructs prayer for protection from
Satans, and describes death, the barrier before resurrection, the trumpet, judgment
by balances, punishment in hell, and reward for believing servants.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage says some people's hearts are in error regarding the Book and
that they withdraw from the warning brought to them.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The affluent ones are seized with punishment and cry for help, but are told
they will not be succoured.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker states that the apostle has come with truth, though most of them
abhor the truth.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The passage says that if truth followed their desires, the heavens, earth,
and all within them would come to ruin.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: God is described as implanting hearing, sight, and heart, causing people to
be born on earth, making alive and killing, and controlling the change of night
and day.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The unbelievers question whether they will be waked to life after becoming
dust and bones, calling the promise fables of the ancients.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: A sequence of questions and answers identifies the earth, the seven heavens,
the glorious throne, and the empire of all things as God's.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The passage denies that God has begotten offspring or that there is any other
god with Him.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker is told to turn aside evil with what is better and to seek refuge
in the Lord from the promptings and hurtful access of the Satans.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: When death overtakes one of the wicked, he asks to be sent back to do the
good he left undone, but the request is refused.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: A barrier is said to stand behind the dead until the day when they are raised
again.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: When the trumpet is sounded, ties of kindred cease and people do not ask each
other's help.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: Those with heavy balances are called blest, while those with light balances
lose their souls and abide in hell forever.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The fire scorches the faces of the condemned, whose lips quiver in it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: The condemned ask to be brought forth, but are ordered to be driven down into
it and not to address God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Believing servants ask for forgiveness and mercy, are mocked by the condemned,
and are later rewarded for patient endurance.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: The judged are asked how many years they tarried on earth and answer that
it was a day or part of a day, referring to recording angels.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: The divine speaker and sovereign who warns, creates, provides, gives
life and death, judges, punishes, forgives, and shows mercy.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:18
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Apostle
description: The messenger said to have come to them with truth and to bid them
to the right path.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:19
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Rejecters / unbelievers / wicked
description: People who reject signs and warning, question resurrection, ask to
return after death, and are depicted among the condemned when their balances are
light.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:13
- ev:15
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Affluent ones
description: The affluent among the rejecters who are seized with punishment and
cry for help.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Satans
description: Beings whose promptings and hurtful access are the object of a prayer
for refuge.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Believing servants
description: Servants who pray for forgiveness and mercy, are mocked, and are rewarded
for patient endurance.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Recording angels
description: Figures referred to when the judged are asked how long they tarried
on earth.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Associated gods / another god
description: Deities whom people associate with God or call upon, but whose status
is denied in the passage.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:18
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Creator and life-giver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to implant hearing, sight, and heart, cause human birth on earth,
make alive, and kill.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: Cosmic sovereign
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The earth, seven heavens, glorious throne, and empire of all things are attributed
to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: Judge and dispenser of punishment or mercy
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is depicted as judging by balances, condemning some to hell, rewarding
patient servants, and being asked for pardon and mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
- id: role:4
label: Messenger of truth and right path
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The apostle is said to come with truth and to bid them to the right path.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:19
- id: role:5
label: Rejecters facing judgment
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They reject signs and warning, deny resurrection, and are described among
those condemned by light balances.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:13
- id: role:6
label: Punished affluent group
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The affluent ones are seized with punishment and cry for help without being
succoured.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: Tempters or harmful beings
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage asks refuge from the promptings and hurtful access of the Satans.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: Patient faithful servants
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They declare belief, ask mercy, endure scoffing, and are rewarded.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: role:9
label: Record keepers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The judged refer to recording angels when asked about their time on earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: role:10
label: Denied rival deities
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The passage denies another god with God and warns against calling on another
god without proof.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:18
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Book
literal_form: Book
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: Right path
literal_form: path
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: sym:3
label: Heavens and earth
literal_form: heavens and earth
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: Glorious throne
literal_form: throne
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: Barrier before resurrection
literal_form: barrier
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:6
label: Trumpet
literal_form: trumpet
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:7
label: Balances
literal_form: balances, heavy or light
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:8
label: Hell fire
literal_form: fire in hell
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: sym:9
label: Dust and bones
literal_form: dust and bones
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rejection of warning and punishment
summary: Those whose hearts are in error reject the warning and signs; affluent
ones are seized with punishment and told that their cries for help will not be
answered.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Apostle and rejected truth
summary: The apostle is accused or disavowed, but the passage states that he has
brought truth and calls to the right path.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:19
- id: scene:3
label: Cosmic sovereignty questioned and affirmed
summary: A series of questions elicits that the earth, the seven heavens, the throne,
and the empire of all things belong to God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Prayer against Satans
summary: The speaker is instructed to seek refuge in the Lord from the promptings
and hurtful access of the Satans.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Death and refused return
summary: A wicked person overtaken by death asks to return and do good, but the
request is rejected; a barrier remains until resurrection.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Trumpet, balances, and hell
summary: The trumpet is sounded, kinship ties cease, balances distinguish the blest
from those who lose their souls, and the condemned abide in hell where fire scorches
their faces.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: scene:7
label: Reward of patient believers
summary: Believing servants who asked for mercy and endured mockery are rewarded
and called blissful.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: scene:8
label: Measure of earthly time
summary: The judged are asked how long they tarried on earth; they answer a day
or part of a day and refer to recording angels.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine judgment by weighed balances
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that heavy balances mark the blest, while light balances
mark those who lose their souls and abide in hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not specify the exact contents being weighed.
- id: motif:2
label: Resurrection after death
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage presents objections to being waked to life after becoming dust
and bones, then states that a barrier remains until the day they are raised again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is doctrinal and eschatological rather than a narrative of
an individual resurrection.
- id: motif:3
label: Eschatological trumpet and dissolution of kinship ties
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- resurrection
basis: When the trumpet is sounded, kinship ties cease and people no longer seek
help from one another before judgment by balances.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: No taxonomy reference for trumpet is provided; assigned to judgment and
resurrection because of the surrounding sequence.
- id: motif:4
label: Condemned soul asks to return after death
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: At death, one of the wicked asks to be sent back to do good, but the request
is refused.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives the request and refusal but not a detailed afterlife
journey.
- id: motif:5
label: Hell punishment by fire
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Those with light balances are said to abide in hell forever, and fire scorches
their faces.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: The available motif taxonomy has no generic hellfire motif; the closest
supported family is divine judgment.
- id: motif:6
label: Refuge from demonic promptings
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The speaker prays to the Lord for refuge against the promptings and hurtful
access of the Satans.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: No matching taxonomy reference is supplied for demonic temptation or apotropaic
prayer.
- id: motif:7
label: Denial of divine offspring and rival gods
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage denies that God has begotten offspring and denies any other god
with Him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a theological assertion in the passage; no supplied taxonomy family
directly matches it.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself compares the current denial of resurrection to sayings
attributed to people of old, including the claim that the promise is fables of
the ancients.
claim_level: same_function
target: Earlier deniers of resurrection within the passage's own retrospective comparison
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not identify a specific earlier text, tradition, or
group beyond 'those of old' and 'ancients'.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 9030-9039
quote_or_summary: The Book is rejected by people whose hearts are in error; signs
were rehearsed to them, but they turned back in pride.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 9034-9037
quote_or_summary: '"Until when we lay hold on their affluent ones with punishment;
lo! they cry for help"; they are told not to cry for help because they will not
be succoured.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 9043-9048
quote_or_summary: The apostle is not recognized or is accused of having a Djinn,
but the passage says he has come with truth, which most abhor.
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 9050-9052
quote_or_summary: If truth followed their desires, the heavens, earth, and all therein
would come to ruin; a warning has been brought, but they withdraw.
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 9066-9073
quote_or_summary: God implants hearing, sight, and heart; causes people to be born
on earth and gathered to Him; makes alive and kills; and controls the change of
night and day.
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 9075-9081
quote_or_summary: They ask whether, after becoming "dust and bones," they shall
be waked to life, and call the promise "fables of the ancients."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 9083-9095
quote_or_summary: Questions ask whose are the earth, the seven heavens, the glorious
throne, and the empire of all things; the answers attribute them to God.
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 9099-9105
quote_or_summary: The passage says God has not begotten offspring and there is no
other god with Him; otherwise each god would take what it created and some would
rise over others.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 9115-9122
quote_or_summary: '"I betake me to Thee, against the promptings of the Satans" and
ask that they gain no hurtful access.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 9124-9128
quote_or_summary: When death overtakes one of the wicked, he asks the Lord to send
him back so he may do the good left undone; the answer is 'By no means.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: quote
locator: lines 9130-9131
quote_or_summary: '"But behind them shall be a barrier, until the day when they
shall be raised again."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 9133-9134
quote_or_summary: When the trumpet is sounded, kinship ties cease on that day and
they do not ask each other's help.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 9136-9140
quote_or_summary: Those whose balances are heavy are blest; those whose balances
are light lose their souls and abide in hell forever.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: quote
locator: lines 9142-9142
quote_or_summary: '"The fire shall scorch their faces, and their lips shall quiver
therein."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 9144-9154
quote_or_summary: The condemned admit error and ask to be brought forth, but are
told to be driven down into it and not to address God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 9156-9163
quote_or_summary: Some servants say they believe and ask forgiveness and mercy;
they were mocked, and God rewards their patient endurance, calling them blissful.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: quote
locator: lines 9165-9171
quote_or_summary: Asked how many years they tarried on earth, they answer, "a day,
or part of a day," and say to ask the recording angels.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 9173-9184
quote_or_summary: God says their earthly time was short, asks whether they thought
they would not be brought back, and is called King, Truth, and Lord of the throne;
those calling on another god must give account.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 9054-9060
quote_or_summary: The apostle asks no remuneration, is said to bid them to the right
path, and those who do not believe in the life to come wander from that path.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction uses only the supplied passage. Motif assignments are strongest
for judgment and resurrection; comparison is limited to the passage's own reference
to earlier deniers.
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'
notes: |-
Passage appears to be Qur'anic eschatological and polemical material in Rodwell's public-domain English translation; no external source identification was added beyond supplied metadata.
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