batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l12303-l12376
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l12303-l12376
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 12303-12376
start: '12303'
end: '12376'
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: Opening translator notes explain maturity, curatorship, and inheritance
customs. The main passage gives inheritance shares for spouses and collateral
kin, names these rules as divine ordinances and statutes, contrasts obedience
rewarded by gardens with rivers with disobedience punished by hell fire, prescribes
witnesses and confinement or punishment for sexual wrongdoing, and distinguishes
timely repentance from repentance at death or unbelief at death.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Translator notes explain testing religious and practical prudence, age of
maturity, curator duties, and inheritance customs affecting women and children.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Husbands and wives receive specified shares of each other's estates depending
on whether there is issue, after legacies and debts are paid.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: If a man or woman's substance is inherited by a distant relation and a brother
or sister exists, each sibling receives a sixth; if there are more, they share
a third after legacies and debts, without prejudice to heirs.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The inheritance rules are called an ordinance from God and the statutes of
God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Those who obey God and his apostle are said to be led by God into gardens
where rivers flow and to remain there forever.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Those who disobey God and his apostle and transgress the statutes are said
to be cast by God into hell fire, remain there forever, and suffer shameful punishment.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Women accused of whoredom require four witnesses from among the community;
if witnessed against, they are confined in separate apartments until death releases
them or God provides a way to escape.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Two persons committing the like wickedness are to be punished, but if they
repent and amend they are to be let alone.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: Repentance is accepted from those who do evil ignorantly and repent speedily.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: Repentance is not accepted from those who continue doing evil until death
presents itself and then claim repentance, nor from those who die unbelievers;
a grievous punishment is prepared for them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Divine source of ordinance and statutes; described as knowing, gracious,
merciful, accepting repentance, leading the obedient to gardens, and casting transgressors
into hell fire.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: God's apostle
description: Named with God as the authority to be obeyed or disobeyed.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Husbands and wives
description: Spouses whose inheritance shares are specified according to whether
there is issue and after payment of legacies and debts.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Distant relation, brother, and sister
description: Collateral kin involved in specified shares of inheritance.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Women accused of whoredom
description: Women against whom four witnesses are to be produced before confinement
in separate apartments.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Four witnesses
description: Witnesses from among the community required to bear witness against
accused women.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Two offenders
description: Two persons who commit the like wickedness, are to be punished, but
left alone if they repent and amend.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Speedy repentant wrongdoers
description: Those who do evil ignorantly and repent speedily; repentance is accepted
from them.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Deathbed repenters and dying unbelievers
description: Those whose repentance is not accepted because repentance is delayed
until death presents itself, or because they die unbelievers.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lawgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The rules are described as an ordinance from God and as God's statutes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: divine judge and eschatological disposer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God leads obedient people into gardens and casts disobedient transgressors
into hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: merciful accepter of repentance
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is described as easy to be reconciled and merciful, and repentance is
accepted from prompt repenters.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: apostolic authority
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Obedience or disobedience to God's apostle is paired with obedience or disobedience
to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: legal heirs
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: The passage assigns specified portions of estates to spouses and collateral
kin.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: accused or offending legal subjects
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:7
basis: The passage gives procedures and punishments for women accused of whoredom
and for two who commit the like wickedness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: legal witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Four witnesses must be produced and bear witness against the accused women.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: penitent offenders
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: Those who repent and amend are to be left alone; speedy repentance is accepted.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: excluded late repenters or unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Repentance at the moment death presents itself and dying in unbelief are
explicitly excluded from accepted repentance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: gardens with flowing rivers
literal_form: Gardens wherein rivers flow
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: hell fire
literal_form: Hell fire
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: four witnesses
literal_form: Four witnesses from among the community
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: separate apartments
literal_form: Separate apartments used for confinement until death release or God
provides escape
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: death as repentance threshold
literal_form: The time when death presents itself
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Inheritance ordinances
summary: The passage specifies shares for spouses and collateral kin after legacies
and debts, and identifies the rules as an ordinance from God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Statutes and afterlife consequences
summary: Obedience to God and his apostle leads to eternal gardens with flowing
rivers, while disobedience and transgression lead to eternal hell fire and shameful
punishment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Witnesses, confinement, punishment, and amendment
summary: Four witnesses are required against accused women, who are then confined;
two offenders are punished unless they repent and amend.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Limits of repentance
summary: Repentance is accepted from those who do evil ignorantly and repent speedily,
but not from those who delay until death or die unbelievers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine judgment through obedience and transgression
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contrasts obedience to God and his apostle, rewarded by eternal
gardens with rivers, with disobedience and transgression, punished by eternal
hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The surrounding material is legal instruction; the motif is clearest in
the explicit afterlife sanction passage.
- id: motif:2
label: Paradisal garden versus punitive fire
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The obedient are led into gardens with flowing rivers, while transgressors
are cast into hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: This is a destination contrast, not a detailed afterlife journey map.
- id: motif:3
label: Repentance before the death threshold
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Prompt repentance is accepted, but repentance at the time death presents
itself and dying in unbelief are excluded and associated with grievous punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states a theological-legal rule rather than a narrative episode.
- id: motif:4
label: Four-witness legal proof before punishment
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Accusations against women require four witnesses before confinement is imposed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: This is primarily a legal procedure; its comparative-motif status requires
human review.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits the available divine_judgment motif family insofar as divine
statutes are paired with eternal reward for obedience and eternal punishment for
transgression.
claim_level: same_motif
target: divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: No broader historical or intertextual comparison is made; the claim
is limited to motif-family classification from the supplied taxonomy.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 12303-12341
quote_or_summary: Translator notes discuss testing prudence and religious grounding,
maturity, curator duties, and inheritance customs, including a note that an inheritance
law abolished a pagan Arab custom excluding women and children.
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 12342-12355
quote_or_summary: Spouses and collateral kin receive specified inheritance shares
after legacies and debts; the rule is called an ordinance from God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 12356-12361
quote_or_summary: "“These are the statutes of GOD”; obedience leads to gardens with
flowing rivers, while disobedience leads to hell fire and shameful punishment."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt with summary.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 12362-12368
quote_or_summary: Four witnesses are required against women accused of whoredom;
witnessed women are confined in separate apartments until death or a divinely
afforded escape; two offenders are punished unless they repent and amend.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 12369-12376
quote_or_summary: God accepts repentance from those who do evil ignorantly and repent
speedily, but not from those who wait until death presents itself or who die unbelievers;
grievous punishment is prepared for them.
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: Legal and theological content is explicit. Motif classification is strongest
for divine judgment and afterlife reward/punishment; procedural legal patterns
need human review before broader comparative use.
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: |-
Used only supplied passage text and metadata. Taxonomy references are limited to provided motif families and symbols.
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