batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l9358-l9506
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label: PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. /
PREFACE; lines 9358-9506
start: '9358'
end: '9506'
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 warns hearers that no gods beside God can protect them, announces
just weighing and reckoning on the day of resurrection, recalls scripture or guidance
given to earlier figures, and narrates episodes involving Abraham’s rejection
of idols and rescue from fire, Lot’s rescue, Noah’s deliverance and the drowning
of his opponents, David and Solomon’s divinely granted judgment and powers, Job’s
relief, patient righteous figures, Dhoulnoun’s cry in darkness and rescue, Zacharias’s
granted child, and the maiden and her son made a sign. It closes by affirming
one religion under one Lord and saying divided groups will return to God.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker asks who can protect people by night and day from the God of Mercy
and says they turn away from their Lord’s warning.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage denies that gods beside God can defend or screen their worshippers
from God.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The passage says just balances will be set up for the day of resurrection
and that even a work weighing as little as a mustard seed will be brought forth
for reckoning.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Moses and Aaron are said to have received illumination, light, and warning
for the God-fearing.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Abraham questions his father and people about images to which they are devoted,
and they answer that they found their fathers worshipping them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Abraham says God is Lord of the heavens and earth and announces that he will
lay a plot against the idols after the people turn away.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Abraham breaks the idols in pieces except their chief, so that the people
may return to it in inquiry.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: When questioned, Abraham tells the people to ask the chief idol if the idols
can speak; the people then acknowledge that the idols do not speak.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The people command that Abraham be burned in support of their gods, but God
commands the fire to be cold and safe for Abraham.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Abraham and Lot are brought safely to a blessed land; Isaac and Jacob are
given to Abraham, and they are made righteous guides.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Lot is given wisdom and knowledge and is rescued from a city described as
evil and perverse.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Noah cries to God, is heard, and he and his family are delivered from a great
calamity, while the people who treated God’s signs as impostures are drowned.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: David and Solomon give judgment concerning a field damaged by sheep, and Solomon
is given insight into the matter.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: Mountains and birds are constrained to join David in praise, and David is
taught to make mail for defense against violence.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: A strongly blowing wind and diving Satans are subjected to Solomon for his
service.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Job cries to his Lord about evil touching him, is heard, has his woe lightened,
and receives back his family with more besides.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: Ismael, Edris, and Dhoulkefl are named as steadfast in patience and caused
to enter divine mercy.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: Dhoulnoun goes away in anger, cries out in darkness confessing wrongdoing,
and is rescued from misery.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:19
text: Zacharias asks not to be left childless; God hears him, gives him John, and
makes his wife fit for child-bearing.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: obs:20
text: A woman who kept her maidenhood is said to have received God’s spirit, and
she and her son are made a sign to all creatures.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: obs:21
text: The passage states that the religion is one religion under one Lord, while
people have divided their concern among sects and will return to God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord / God of Mercy
description: The divine speaker and subject who warns, judges, gives guidance, rescues,
grants wisdom and children, commands fire, and receives the return of all groups.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:19
- ev:21
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: gods beside God / idols / images
description: Objects or alleged gods worshipped by Abraham’s people; the passage
says they cannot defend, profit, injure, speak, or screen worshippers from God.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Abraham
description: A youth who rejects inherited idol worship, breaks the idols except
their chief, challenges the people to question them, and is rescued from fire.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Abraham’s father and people
description: The group devoted to images because their fathers worshipped them;
they question Abraham and command that he be burned.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Moses and Aaron
description: Earlier figures given illumination, light, and warning for the God-fearing.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Lot
description: A righteous figure given wisdom and knowledge and rescued from an evil
city.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Noah
description: A figure who cries to God and is delivered with his family from a great
calamity.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Noah’s family
description: Noah’s family are delivered with him from the great calamity.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Noah’s opposing people
description: A people who treat God’s signs as impostures and are drowned.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: David
description: A figure involved in judgment concerning a damaged field, granted wisdom
and knowledge, joined by mountains and birds in praise, and taught mail-making.
role_refs:
- role:8
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Solomon
description: A figure who gives judgment with David, receives insight, wisdom, and
knowledge, and has wind and diving Satans subjected to him.
role_refs:
- role:8
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Job
description: An afflicted supplicant who cries to his Lord and receives relief and
restoration of family.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Ismael, Edris, and Dhoulkefl
description: Figures named as steadfast in patience and included among the righteous
who enter divine mercy.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Dhoulnoun
description: A figure who departs in anger, cries out in darkness, confesses wrongdoing,
and is rescued from misery.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Zacharias
description: A supplicant who asks not to be left childless and is granted John.
role_refs:
- role:13
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: John
description: The child granted to Zacharias after his prayer.
role_refs:
- role:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: Zacharias’s wife
description: The woman made fit for child-bearing before John is granted.
role_refs:
- role:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: fig:18
name_or_label: the maiden and her son
description: A woman who kept her maidenhood and her son, made a sign to all creatures
after God breathes of his spirit into her.
role_refs:
- role:17
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine protector and rescuer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is portrayed as the one who protects, hears cries, rescues righteous
figures, and brings them into mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:16
- ev:18
- id: role:2
label: divine judge and reckoner
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says God will set up just balances on resurrection day and that
all groups shall return to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:21
- id: role:3
label: giver of revelation, wisdom, and life-gifts
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God gives illumination, guidance, wisdom, knowledge, insight, children, and
signs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- ev:13
- ev:19
- ev:20
- id: role:4
label: powerless objects of worship
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage states that the other gods cannot defend and that the idols cannot
speak, profit, or injure.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: idol-breaker and challenger of inherited worship
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Abraham questions ancestral image worship, plots against the idols, breaks
them, and challenges the people about their speechlessness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: rescued righteous figure
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:12
- fig:14
basis: These figures are described as delivered, brought to safety, rescued, or
relieved by God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:16
- ev:18
- id: role:7
label: opponents or erring community
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:9
basis: Abraham’s people defend the idols and seek to burn him; Noah’s opposing people
reject signs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:12
- id: role:8
label: recipient of wisdom or guidance
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: These figures are explicitly said to receive illumination, wisdom, knowledge,
or insight.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:11
- ev:13
- id: role:9
label: crying supplicant before calamity
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Noah cries to God and is heard before deliverance from the great calamity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:10
label: drowned rejecters of signs
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Noah’s opponents treat signs as impostures and are drowned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:11
label: praising ruler or servant with crafted defense
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: David is associated with mountains and birds joining in praise and is taught
to make mail for defense.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:12
label: ruler served by wind and diving beings
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The wind and Satans are subjected to Solomon to travel and work for him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: role:13
label: afflicted or repentant supplicant
assigned_to:
- fig:12
- fig:14
- fig:15
basis: Job, Dhoulnoun, and Zacharias cry or call to their Lord from need, misery,
wrongdoing, or childlessness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
- ev:19
- id: role:14
label: patient righteous figures
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: Ismael, Edris, and Dhoulkefl are described as steadfast in patience and righteous.
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: role:15
label: childless petitioner
assigned_to:
- fig:15
basis: Zacharias asks not to be left childless.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: role:16
label: miraculously granted child and enabled mother
assigned_to:
- fig:16
- fig:17
basis: John is granted after prayer, and Zacharias’s wife is made fit for child-bearing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: role:17
label: sign-bearing mother and son
assigned_to:
- fig:18
basis: The maiden and her son are made a sign to all creatures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: just balances
literal_form: balances set up for the day of resurrection
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: mustard-seed weight
literal_form: a work weighing as little as a grain of mustard seed
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: images and idols
literal_form: images and gods worshipped instead of God, including a chief idol
left unbroken
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:4
label: fire made safe
literal_form: fire commanded to be cold and a safety for Abraham
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:5
label: blessed land
literal_form: the land to which Abraham and Lot are brought safely and which is
blessed for all human beings
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:6
label: great calamity and drowning
literal_form: the calamity from which Noah and his family are delivered and in which
his opponents are drowned
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:7
label: mountains and birds in praise
literal_form: mountains and birds constrained to join David in praise
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:8
label: mail for defense
literal_form: mail made by David to defend people from one another’s violence
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:9
label: strongly blowing wind
literal_form: wind subjected to Solomon and speeding at his bidding
associated_figures:
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:10
label: darkness of Dhoulnoun
literal_form: darkness in which Dhoulnoun cries out and confesses wrongdoing
associated_figures:
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: sym:11
label: granted child
literal_form: John given to Zacharias after his prayer not to be childless
associated_figures:
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:17
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: sym:12
label: maidenhood and breathed spirit
literal_form: the maiden who kept her maidenhood and into whom God breathed of his
spirit
associated_figures:
- fig:18
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Warning and resurrection reckoning
summary: The passage warns that no gods beside God can protect people and describes
just balances and full reckoning on the day of resurrection.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Earlier illumination and present warning
summary: Moses and Aaron are given illumination, light, and warning, and the Koran
is described as a blessed warning sent down.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Abraham confronts the idols
summary: Abraham challenges his father and people’s devotion to images, breaks the
idols except the chief, and exposes that the idols cannot speak.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: Abraham rescued from fire and settled with Lot
summary: Abraham’s people call for him to be burned, but God makes the fire cold
and safe; Abraham and Lot are brought to a blessed land, and Abraham is given
Isaac and Jacob.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:5
label: Lot rescued from an evil city
summary: Lot receives wisdom and knowledge and is rescued from a city of evil and
perverse people.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Noah delivered and opponents drowned
summary: Noah cries to God and is heard; he and his family are delivered from a
great calamity, while the people rejecting signs are drowned.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: scene:7
label: David and Solomon receive judgment and powers
summary: David and Solomon judge a damaged field; Solomon receives insight, David
is joined by mountains and birds in praise and taught mail-making, and Solomon
is served by wind and diving Satans.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: scene:8
label: Supplicants relieved or rescued
summary: Job is relieved from woe, patient figures are brought into mercy, and Dhoulnoun
is rescued after crying in darkness.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
- id: scene:9
label: Child granted and sign made
summary: Zacharias prays not to be childless and is given John; the maiden and her
son are made a sign to all creatures.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:17
- fig:18
symbol_refs:
- sym:11
- sym:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- ev:20
- id: scene:10
label: One religion and divided sects
summary: The passage states that the religion is one under the Lord, but people
divide it among sects and will return to God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Resurrection judgment by exact weighing
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- resurrection
basis: The passage explicitly describes just balances for the day of resurrection
and exact accounting down to a mustard-seed weight.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage supplies a judgment image but does not elaborate a full afterlife
itinerary.
- id: motif:2
label: Powerless idols exposed by a challenger
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Abraham breaks the idols, leaves the chief idol, and uses the idols’ inability
to speak to challenge the people’s worship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The wisdom classification is broad; no specific external motif taxonomy
number is supplied.
- id: motif:3
label: Righteous figure saved from lethal fire
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Abraham is to be burned, but God commands the fire to become cold and safe
for him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The available motif-family list has no exact category for fire ordeal
or miraculous fire rescue.
- id: motif:4
label: Deliverance of a faithful remnant and drowning of rejecters
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- flood_and_renewal
basis: Noah and his family are delivered from a great calamity while the people
who treated signs as impostures are drowned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage mentions drowning and calamity but does not describe an ark
or renewal after the flood.
- id: motif:5
label: Wisdom granted to judges and guides
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Moses and Aaron receive illumination; Lot receives wisdom and knowledge;
David and Solomon receive wisdom, knowledge, and insight for judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:11
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: This is a repeated thematic pattern rather than a single narrative episode.
- id: motif:6
label: Mastery over natural and nonhuman powers granted to a ruler
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Mountains and birds join David in praise, and wind and diving Satans are
subjected to Solomon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
confidence: medium
cautions: No exact motif family in the supplied taxonomy directly covers command
over wind, birds, mountains, and spirits.
- id: motif:7
label: Afflicted or repentant supplicant rescued after prayer
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Job, Dhoulnoun, and Zacharias call to God from affliction, misery, wrongdoing,
or childlessness and are heard or granted relief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:18
- ev:19
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy match is indirect; these episodes emphasize mercy and response
to prayer more than punitive judgment.
- id: motif:8
label: Child miraculously granted to a previously childless household
taxonomy_refs:
- miraculous_child
basis: Zacharias asks not to be left childless, his wife is made fit for child-bearing,
and John is given to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is brief and does not narrate the child’s later deeds.
- id: motif:9
label: Virgin mother and son as divine sign
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_birth
- miraculous_child
basis: The woman who kept her maidenhood receives God’s spirit, and she and her
son are made a sign to all creatures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a compressed formulation and does not name the mother
or son in this excerpt.
- id: motif:10
label: Single true religion divided into sects and returned to God
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
- return
basis: The passage says the religion is one under one Lord, that people divided
it among sects, and that all will return to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
confidence: medium
cautions: The covenant category is broad; the passage does not explicitly use covenant
language.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 9358-9360
quote_or_summary: The passage asks who will protect people by night and day from
the God of Mercy and says they turn away from their Lord’s warning.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 9362-9364
quote_or_summary: The passage asks whether gods beside God can defend the people
and states that such gods cannot succor or screen them from 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 9375-9378
quote_or_summary: Just balances are set up for the day of resurrection; no soul
is wronged, and even a mustard-seed weight of work is brought forth for reckoning.
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 9380-9387
quote_or_summary: Moses and Aaron are given illumination, light, and warning; the
Koran is described as a blessed warning sent down.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 9389-9396
quote_or_summary: Abraham receives direction and asks his father and people about
images they are devoted to; they say they found their fathers worshipping them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 9400-9405
quote_or_summary: Abraham says their Lord is creator of the heavens and earth and
announces a plot against their idols after they have retired.
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 9407-9408
quote_or_summary: Abraham breaks the idols in pieces except the chief idol, so the
people may return to it with questions.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 9410-9426
quote_or_summary: The people identify Abraham as the youth who mentioned the idols
and question him; Abraham points to the chief idol and tells them to ask the idols
if they can speak; the people acknowledge they do not speak.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 9430-9435
quote_or_summary: The people say to burn Abraham; God says, “O fire! be thou cold,
and to Abraham a safety!” and their plot fails.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 9437-9444
quote_or_summary: Abraham and Lot are brought safely to a blessed land; Isaac and
Jacob are given to Abraham, and the group is made righteous, guiding by God’s
command.
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 9446-9450
quote_or_summary: Lot receives wisdom and knowledge and is rescued from an evil
city; he is caused to enter divine mercy as one of the righteous.
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 9452-9456
quote_or_summary: Noah cries to God and is heard; he and his family are delivered
from a great calamity, and the people who reject signs are drowned.
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 9458-9462
quote_or_summary: David and Solomon judge a field damaged by sheep; Solomon is given
insight, and both receive wisdom and knowledge.
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 9462-9467
quote_or_summary: Mountains and birds are constrained to join David in praise, and
David is taught the art of making mail to defend against violence.
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 9469-9473
quote_or_summary: A strongly blowing wind is subjected to Solomon, and Satans dive
for him and perform other work under divine watch.
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 9475-9480
quote_or_summary: Job cries that evil has touched him and calls God merciful; God
hears him, lightens his woe, and gives back his family with as many more.
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 9482-9485
quote_or_summary: Ismael, Edris, and Dhoulkefl are named as steadfast in patience
and caused to enter divine mercy among the righteous.
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 9487-9492
quote_or_summary: Dhoulnoun goes away in anger, cries in darkness that there is
no God but God and that he has done evil, and is rescued from misery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 9494-9499
quote_or_summary: Zacharias asks not to be left childless; God hears him, gives
him John, and makes his wife fit for child-bearing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: lines 9501-9503
quote_or_summary: The woman who kept her maidenhood receives God’s spirit, and she
and her son are made a sign to all creatures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:21
type: summary
locator: lines 9505-9506
quote_or_summary: The passage says this religion is one religion under one Lord;
people have divided the matter into sects, and all will return to God.
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: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit and narrative-rich.
Motif assignment is mostly high for direct themes, but some taxonomy matches are
broad because the supplied motif-family list lacks exact categories for several
episodes, such as Abraham’s fire rescue or Solomon’s command over wind and spirits.
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not make a cross-traditional
comparison.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Line numbers are approximate within the provided range according to the passage locator.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg__l9358-l9506
passage_sha256=477798c22a7cfb9ae8ccc7e925cfd2e75a097800975976fed460034888957668