batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l11470-l11534
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l11470-l11534
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11470-11534
start: '11470'
end: '11534'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Sale's notes and translated Qur'anic passage discuss disputed food laws,
Jacob's abstinence, the sanctuary at Becca/Mecca, the duty to visit the House,
admonitions to people of scripture and believers, cleaving to God's covenant,
reconciliation of former enemies, deliverance from a pit of fire, communal moral
instruction, and resurrection judgment marked by white or black faces.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A note says Jews reproached Mohammed and his followers for eating camel flesh
and milk, which they said was forbidden to Abraham.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The note says God ordained no distinction of meats before giving the law to
Moses, while Jacob voluntarily abstained from camel flesh and milk according to
the explanation.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The note connects the exposition with Israelite avoidance of the sinew on
the hollow of the thigh after Jacob wrestled with an angel at Peniel.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A note says Israelites were later forbidden certain animals because of wickedness
and perverseness, though those animals had been allowed to predecessors.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: A note says Jews claimed Jerusalem's temple as an older Keblah than the Mohammedans'
Caaba, and identifies Becca as another name for Mecca.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The passage says the place contains manifest signs, including the place where
Abraham stood, and that whoever enters it shall be safe.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage states that those able to go must visit the House as a duty toward
God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: People who have received scriptures are asked why they do not believe in God's
signs and why they keep believers back from God's way.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Believers are warned that obeying some scripture-receivers may render them
infidels after belief.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: Believers are commanded to fear God, die as true believers, cleave to God's
covenant, and not depart from it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: The passage says former enemies had their hearts reconciled by God and became
companions and brethren.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:12
text: The passage says the addressees were on the brink of a pit of fire and God
delivered them from it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: A group among the believers is instructed to invite to the best religion,
command what is just, and forbid what is evil.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: The passage warns against being divided after manifest proofs and says such
people will suffer great torment.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: On the day of resurrection some faces become white and other faces black;
those with black faces are punished for unbelief, while those with white faces
remain in God's mercy forever.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Divine speaker or agent who gives signs, ordains law, reconciles hearts,
delivers from fire, judges unbelief, and grants mercy.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:13
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: Named in the note as reproached by Jews together with his followers;
also associated with the apostle present among believers in the passage.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Jews / those who have received the scriptures
description: A group described in the notes as reproaching Mohammed and claiming
Jerusalem's temple as the older Keblah; in the passage, scripture-receivers are
addressed about unbelief and obstructing God's way.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Abraham
description: Patriarch whose religion is referenced in the food-law dispute and
whose standing place is named among the signs in the sanctuary.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Jacob
description: Patriarch said in the note to have voluntarily abstained from camel
flesh and milk and to have wrestled with an angel at Peniel.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Moses
description: Prophet associated in the note with the giving of law after which distinctions
of meats were ordained.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Angel with whom Jacob wrestled
description: Figure in the note who wrestled with Jacob at Peniel and touched the
hollow of his thigh.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: True believers
description: Addressees commanded to fear God, cleave to God's covenant, remember
reconciliation, form a moral community, and avoid division.
role_refs:
- role:9
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Those whose faces become black
description: Resurrection-day group addressed as having returned to unbelief after
belief and told to taste punishment.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Those whose faces become white
description: Resurrection-day group said to be in the mercy of God forever.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lawgiver and guide
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to ordain food distinctions, declare signs, and direct believers
in the right way.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:2
label: resurrection judge and giver of mercy
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: On the day of resurrection God punishes unbelief and grants lasting mercy
to others.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:3
label: apostle among believers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage asks how believers can become infidels when God's signs are read
to them and his apostle is among them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: scriptural disputants or obstructors
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They reproach Mohammed in notes and are addressed as keeping believers back
from God's way.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: patriarch linked to sanctuary sign
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The sanctuary includes the place where Abraham stood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: patriarch linked to abstinence and bodily mark tradition
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Jacob is said to abstain from camel flesh and milk and is connected with
the thigh-sinew explanation after wrestling at Peniel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: law-receiving prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The note refers to God giving the law to Moses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:8
label: wrestling supernatural opponent
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The note describes the angel with whom Jacob wrestled and who touched his
thigh.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:9
label: covenant community
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Believers are commanded to cleave to God's covenant and not depart from it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:10
label: reconciled brethren delivered from fire
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The passage says God reconciled former enemies into brethren and delivered
them from the brink of a pit of fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:11
label: punished unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The black-faced resurrection group is accused of returning to unbelief and
commanded to taste punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:12
label: recipients of enduring mercy
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The white-faced resurrection group remains in God's mercy forever.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: House / sanctuary
literal_form: the House at Becca/Mecca, identified in notes with the Caaba and as
a Keblah
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: place where Abraham stood
literal_form: a named place within the sanctuary described as one of its manifest
signs
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: covenant of God
literal_form: the covenant believers are commanded to cleave to and not depart from
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:4
label: pit of fire
literal_form: a pit of fire from whose brink God delivered the believers
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:5
label: white faces and black faces
literal_form: faces that become white or black on the day of resurrection
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:6
label: signs of God
literal_form: manifest signs and signs read to the believers
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: sym:7
label: sinew on the hollow of the thigh
literal_form: the sinew avoided by the children of Israel after the angel touched
Jacob's thigh
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Dispute over food law and patriarchal abstinence
summary: A note describes Jews reproaching Mohammed and his followers for eating
camel flesh and milk; the response says God made no meat distinctions before Moses'
law, while Jacob voluntarily abstained.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Jacob, Peniel, and the thigh sinew
summary: A note relates the abstinence exposition to the Israelite custom of not
eating the thigh sinew because Jacob wrestled with an angel at Peniel who touched
his thigh.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Sanctuary and pilgrimage duty
summary: The passage presents the sanctuary as containing signs, including Abraham's
standing place, promising safety to entrants and imposing a duty to visit the
House on those able to go.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Admonition to scripture-receivers and believers
summary: People of scripture are challenged for disbelief and obstruction, while
believers are warned against being led back into unbelief while God's signs are
read and the apostle is among them.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Covenant, reconciliation, and deliverance from fire
summary: Believers are commanded to fear God and cleave to his covenant, remembering
that God reconciled former enemies into brethren and delivered them from the brink
of a pit of fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:6
label: Communal moral command and warning against division
summary: A group is to invite to religion, command justice, and forbid evil; the
passage warns against religious division after manifest proofs and announces torment
for such division.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: scene:7
label: Resurrection judgment marked on faces
summary: On the day of resurrection, some faces become black and are punished for
unbelief, while others become white and remain forever in God's mercy.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: covenant community bound to God
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: Believers are explicitly commanded to cleave to God's covenant and not depart
from it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not narrate the original making of the covenant; it commands
adherence to it.
- id: motif:2
label: deliverance from fiery peril
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage says the believers were on the brink of a pit of fire and God
delivered them from it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The pit of fire may be figurative or eschatological in context; the passage
does not describe a literal journey into fire.
- id: motif:3
label: resurrection judgment by visible bodily sign
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
basis: On the day of resurrection, faces become white or black, and the two groups
receive mercy or punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The color change is presented as an eschatological marker; broader doctrinal
interpretation is not supplied here.
- id: motif:4
label: sacred sanctuary requiring pilgrimage
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The House contains manifest signs, grants safety to entrants, and must be
visited by those able to go.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches pilgrimage sanctuary;
not mapped to world_center without stronger passage evidence.
- id: motif:5
label: reconciliation of former enemies into brethren
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: God is said to reconcile the hearts of former enemies so that they become
companions and brethren.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: This is a social-religious transformation motif, not a full narrative
arc in the passage.
- id: motif:6
label: patriarchal abstinence and food prohibition aetiology
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The notes explain dietary abstinence through Jacob's vow or medical advice
and the Israelite avoidance of the thigh sinew after the Peniel encounter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: This material is in Sale's explanatory notes rather than the translated
Qur'anic verses in the excerpt.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage directly fits the supplied covenant motif family at the level
of explicit covenant language and communal adherence.
claim_level: same_motif
target: covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The excerpt commands cleaving to the covenant but does not recount
covenant formation or ritual ratification.
- id: claim:2
claim: The resurrection scene fits a divine judgment pattern in which visible bodily
differentiation separates punished unbelievers from recipients of mercy.
claim_level: same_function
target: divine_judgment and resurrection motif families
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The comparison is functional and limited to the supplied taxonomy labels;
no external parallels are established.
- id: claim:3
claim: Sale's note explicitly links the food-abstinence explanation to the nearby
biblical Jacob-at-Peniel tradition.
claim_level: same_function
target: Genesis 32 thigh-sinew aetiology as cited in the note
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The link is supplied by the translator's note, not by an extended comparison
within the translated Qur'anic passage itself.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 11470-11483
quote_or_summary: A note says Jews reproached Mohammed and followers over camel
flesh and milk; the answer says God made no meat distinction before Moses' law,
while Jacob voluntarily abstained from camel flesh and milk.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 11484-11488
quote_or_summary: The note connects the exposition to the children of Israel not
eating the thigh sinew because the angel who wrestled Jacob at Peniel touched
the hollow of his thigh.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 11489-11491
quote_or_summary: A note says Israelites were forbidden certain animals because
of wickedness and perverseness, though the animals had been allowed to predecessors.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 11492-11497
quote_or_summary: A note says Jews claimed Jerusalem's temple as the more ancient
Keblah than the Mohammedans' Caaba; Becca is identified as another name of Mecca.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 11506-11508
quote_or_summary: '"Therein are manifest signs: the place where Abraham stood; and
whoever entereth therein, shall be safe."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 11508-11510
quote_or_summary: The passage says it is a duty toward God for those able to go
to visit this House; God does not need the service of any creature.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 11511-11515
quote_or_summary: People who have received scriptures are asked why they do not
believe in God's signs and why they keep believers back from God's way while knowing
it is right.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 11516-11520
quote_or_summary: Believers are warned that some scripture-receivers would render
them infidels after belief, though God's signs are read to them and his apostle
is among them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 11521-11524
quote_or_summary: '"fear GOD with his true fear" and "cleave all of you unto the
covenant of GOD, and depart not from it"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 11524-11528
quote_or_summary: The passage says God reconciled the hearts of former enemies,
made them companions and brethren, and delivered them from the brink of a pit
of fire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 11529-11531
quote_or_summary: A people among the believers should invite to the best religion,
command what is just, forbid what is evil, and be happy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 11532-11534
quote_or_summary: The passage warns not to be like those divided in religion after
manifest proofs; they will suffer great torment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 11534-11540
quote_or_summary: On the day of resurrection, some faces become white and others
black; black-faced returners to unbelief taste punishment, while white-faced ones
remain forever in God's mercy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The extraction is based only on the supplied excerpt. Some motif candidates
derive from translator's notes as well as translated scripture, so human review
is needed for classification boundaries.
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: |-
All observations and motif candidates cite evidence from the provided passage range only.
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