batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l9793-l9936
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l9793-l9936
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 9793-9936
start: '9793'
end: '9936'
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 recalls destroyed peoples who rejected apostles, addresses
mockery of the current apostle, presents natural and cosmic signs attributed to
God, describes the apostle as herald and warner, and contrasts the conduct and
reward of the servants of the God of Mercy with punishment for rejection and wrongdoing.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The people of Noah are said to have treated their apostles as impostors and
to have been drowned and made a sign to mankind.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Ad, Themoud, the men of Rass, and other generations are said to have received
warning parables and then been utterly exterminated.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A city passed by the unbelieving Meccans is described as having received a
fatal rain.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The addressed apostle is mocked by opponents who say he nearly led them away
from their gods.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage says some have taken their passions as a god and are compared
to brutes who stray from the right way.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: God is said to lengthen and draw in the shadow, with the sun as its guide.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Night is described as a garment, sleep as rest, and day as waking up to life.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Winds are sent before rain, pure water is sent from heaven, dead land is revived,
and beasts and humans are given drink.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Two seas, one sweet and fresh and the other salt and bitter, are let loose
with an interspace and an impassable barrier between them.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Humanity is said to be created of water and connected by ties of kindred and
affinity.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The apostle is described as sent only as a herald and a warner, asking no
recompense except that one willingly take the way to his Lord.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: God is described as living and not dying, knowing servants' faults, creating
the heavens and earth in six days, and mounting his throne.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: The heaven is described as containing the Zodiac, the lamp of the Sun, and
the light-giving Moon.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The servants of the God of Mercy walk softly, answer the ignorant with peace,
and spend the night prostrate and standing in worship.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: The servants pray that the torment of Hell be turned away from them, calling
it endless and an ill abode.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: 'The passage lists ethical behaviors: moderation in spending, not calling
on other gods, not unlawful killing, not fornication, repentance, rejection of
false witness, dignity, attentiveness to signs, and prayer for family and exemplary
status.'
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: obs:17
text: The steadfast servants are promised the High Places of Paradise, welcome,
salutation, and an enduring fair abode.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:18
text: Those who have treated the apostle as an impostor are warned that punishment
will cleave to them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord / God of Mercy
description: The divine being who judges former peoples, controls natural and cosmic
phenomena, creates, sends apostles, and rewards or punishes.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:18
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: People of Noah
description: A people who treated their apostles as impostors and were drowned.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Ad, Themoud, men of Rass, and other generations
description: Former peoples or generations who received warning parables and were
exterminated.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Unbelieving Meccans / Infidels
description: Opponents who pass by the ruined city, mock the apostle, cling to their
gods, and are warned of punishment.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:19
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Addressed apostle
description: The addressee mocked by opponents and described as a herald and warner.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:11
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Satan
description: Named in the statement that the infidel is Satan's helper against his
Lord.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Servants of the God of Mercy
description: Righteous servants who walk softly, answer with peace, worship at night,
avoid listed sins, repent, and are promised Paradise.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Beasts and men
description: Created beings who receive drink from the water sent down from heaven.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Divine creator, provider, and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God sends water, creates the heavens and earth, controls cosmic signs, judges
rejected peoples, and grants punishment or Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:18
- ev:19
- id: role:2
label: Herald and warner
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The addressed apostle is explicitly said to be sent only as a herald and
a warner.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:3
label: Rejecters of warning
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: These groups reject apostles, warnings, resurrection, or the addressed apostle
and are associated with punishment or destruction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:19
- id: role:4
label: Righteous worshippers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: They are described by humility, peaceful speech, worship, ethical restraint,
repentance, prayer, and final reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Water from heaven
literal_form: Pure water sent down from Heaven as rain
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:2
label: Dead land revived by water
literal_form: Dead land revived by heavenly water
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:3
label: Two seas and barrier
literal_form: One sweet fresh sea and one salt bitter sea separated by an interspace
and impassable barrier
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:4
label: Human creation from water
literal_form: Man created of water
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:5
label: Fatal rain
literal_form: Rain on a city described as fatal
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: Shadow, sun, night, and day
literal_form: Lengthened shadow, sun as guide, night as garment, sleep as rest,
day as waking to life
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: Zodiac, Sun, and Moon
literal_form: 'Signs in heaven: Zodiac, lamp of the Sun, light-giving Moon'
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:8
label: Throne
literal_form: God mounted his Throne after creating the heavens and earth
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:9
label: Hell as ill abode
literal_form: Endless torment of Hell, an ill abode and resting place
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:10
label: High Places of Paradise
literal_form: High Places of Paradise as a fair abode and resting-place
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: sym:11
label: The Koran as means of striving
literal_form: The Koran used to strive against the Infidels with a mighty strife
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Destroyed peoples as warning signs
summary: Former peoples, including the people of Noah, Ad, Themoud, the men of Rass,
and other generations, reject apostolic warning and are destroyed or made signs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Mockery of the apostle and warning of punishment
summary: Opponents mock the addressed apostle and boast of perseverance in serving
their gods, while the passage warns that punishment will reveal who strayed.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:19
- id: scene:3
label: Natural and cosmic signs of divine ordering
summary: The passage attributes shadow, night, day, winds, rain, the two seas, human
creation from water, the throne, the Zodiac, Sun, and Moon to God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: scene:4
label: Mission of the herald and warner
summary: The addressed apostle is told not to yield to the Infidels, to strive by
means of the Koran, and to ask no recompense except willingness to take the way
to the Lord.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:21
- id: scene:5
label: Conduct of the servants of the God of Mercy
summary: The righteous servants walk humbly, answer ignorance with peace, worship
at night, pray against Hell, practice ethical restraint, repent, avoid false witness,
heed signs, and pray for family and exemplary status.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: scene:6
label: Reward in Paradise
summary: The steadfast servants are rewarded with the High Places of Paradise, welcome,
salutation, and an enduring fair abode.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Rejected warning followed by divine punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Multiple groups reject apostles or warnings and are drowned, exterminated,
struck by fatal rain, threatened with punishment, or assigned torment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:15
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes judgment more than a detailed narrative of each
destruction.
- id: motif:2
label: Flood or drowning as divine sign
taxonomy_refs:
- flood_and_renewal
basis: The people of Noah are drowned after treating apostles as impostors and are
made a sign to mankind.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage mentions drowning and a sign but does not narrate renewal,
a vessel, or survivors.
- id: motif:3
label: Resurrection and afterlife recompense
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage mentions denial of resurrection, the day of Resurrection, doubled
torment, repentance, Hell, and Paradise as reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
confidence: high
cautions: The passage states doctrines and outcomes rather than narrating an afterlife
journey.
- id: motif:4
label: Life-giving heavenly water revives dead land
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: Pure water is sent down from heaven to revive dead land and provide drink
to beasts and humans.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The rebirth is agricultural or terrestrial in the passage, not a personal
death-and-return narrative.
- id: motif:5
label: Cosmic order as sign for reflection
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage presents shadow, sun, night, day, Zodiac, Sun, Moon, and alternating
night and day as signs or arrangements for reflection and thankfulness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy label is broad; the passage does not present wisdom as a
personified figure.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: 'Within the passage, the people of Noah, Ad, Themoud, the men of Rass, and
other generations serve the same warning-function: they exemplify communities
that rejected divine warning and were destroyed.'
claim_level: same_function
target: Named former peoples in the passage as examples of rejected warning and
destruction
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an internal comparison among figures named in the passage,
not a claim of historical contact or cross-cultural borrowing.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 9793-9795
quote_or_summary: The people of Noah treated their apostles as impostors; “we drowned
them” and made them “a sign to mankind.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 9796-9801
quote_or_summary: Ad, Themoud, the men of Rass, and generations between them receive
warning parables, and each is utterly exterminated.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 9802-9804
quote_or_summary: Unbelieving Meccans pass by “the city on which was rained a fatal
rain” and are said to have no hope of resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 9805-9810
quote_or_summary: Opponents mock the addressed apostle and say he nearly led them
astray from their gods; punishment will show who has strayed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 9811-9815
quote_or_summary: One who takes passions as a god is mentioned; many are compared
to brutes and said to stray further from the right way.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 9816-9819
quote_or_summary: The Lord lengthens the shadow, makes the sun its guide, and draws
it in.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 9820-9821
quote_or_summary: Night is ordained “as a garment,” sleep “for rest,” and day “for
waking up to life.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 9822-9827
quote_or_summary: Winds precede mercy in the form of rain; pure water from heaven
revives dead land and gives drink to beasts and humans.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 9834-9836
quote_or_summary: God lets loose “the two seas,” one fresh and one salt, with “an
interspace” and “a barrier that cannot be passed.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 9837-9838
quote_or_summary: God creates man of water and establishes ties of kindred and affinity.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 9841-9845
quote_or_summary: The addressed apostle is sent only as a herald and warner and
asks no recompense except willingness to take the way to the Lord.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 9846-9849
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told to trust the living God who does not die;
God knows servants' faults, created heavens and earth in six days, and mounted
his throne.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 9853-9857
quote_or_summary: God placed the Zodiac in heaven, the lamp of the Sun, the light-giving
Moon, and ordained night and day to succeed one another.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 9858-9862
quote_or_summary: Servants of the God of Mercy walk softly on earth, answer the
ignorant with peace, and spend the night worshipping prostrate and standing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:15
type: quote
locator: lines 9863-9865
quote_or_summary: They pray, “turn away from us the torment of Hell,” calling its
torment endless and “an ill abode.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 9866-9877
quote_or_summary: They spend moderately, call on no other gods, avoid forbidden
killing and fornication; wrongdoing brings doubled torment on the day of Resurrection,
while repentance and righteous works are accepted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: lines 9878-9885
quote_or_summary: They avoid false witness, pass frivolous sport with dignity, heed
signs, and pray for joy in wives and offspring and to be examples to the God-fearing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:18
type: quote
locator: lines 9886-9889
quote_or_summary: The steadfast “shall be rewarded with the High Places of Paradise”
and remain there forever in “a fair abode.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 9890-9892
quote_or_summary: The passage says the apostle has been treated as an impostor and
warns that punishment will cleave to them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:20
type: quote
locator: lines 9839-9840
quote_or_summary: Those worshipped beside God can neither help nor hurt; “the Infidel
is Satan's helper against his Lord.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
- id: ev:21
type: summary
locator: lines 9828-9833
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told not to give way to the Infidels but to strive
against them by means of the Koran with a mighty strife.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied English passage. Some line locators
are approximate within the provided stable range because the passage excerpt is
supplied without per-line numbering.
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 external sources or unstated comparisons were used. Taxonomy refs were limited to supplied available refs.
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