batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l13631-l13701
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l13631-l13701
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER V. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 13631-13701
start: '13631'
end: '13701'
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: The passage gives rules on lawful food, hunting animals, eating with people
of scripture, marriage, ritual washing before prayer, substitute purification
with clean sand when water is unavailable, remembrance of God's covenant and favor,
justice in witness, promised pardon and reward for believers, hell for sign-deniers,
and divine restraint of hostile hands. Translator notes add reported occasions
involving threats against Mohammed that were thwarted.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Permitted foods are described as good things, including what trained animals
of prey catch for believers when God's name is commemorated over it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The food of those given scripture is allowed to believers, and believers'
food is allowed to them.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Believers are permitted to marry free believing women and free women from
those who previously received scriptures, with dower and chaste conduct required.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A person who renounces the faith is said to have vain works and to perish
in the next life.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Before prayer, believers are instructed to wash faces and hands to the elbows,
rub heads, and wash feet to the ankles.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: If polluted after lying with a woman, believers are instructed to wash all
over.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: If sick, traveling, coming from the privy, or having touched women, and no
water is found, believers are instructed to rub faces and hands with fine clean
sand.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: God's stated desire is to purify believers, complete his favor on them, and
lead them to give thanks.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:9
text: Believers are told to remember God's favor and covenant, associated with the
words, 'We have heard, and will obey.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: Believers are commanded to act justly as witnesses before God and not let
hatred lead them to wrong.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: God promises pardon and a great reward to those who believe and do right.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:12
text: Those who disbelieve and accuse God's signs of falsehood are called companions
of hell.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:13
text: Believers are told to remember a favor in which certain men intended to stretch
out their hands against them, but God restrained their hands.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:14
text: Translator notes report several stories in which planned attacks on Mohammed
or his followers were prevented.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Divine speaker and actor who teaches skill, takes account, purifies,
makes covenant, commands justice, promises reward, threatens hell, and restrains
hostile hands.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: true believers
description: The addressed community receiving rules on food, marriage, prayer washing,
covenant remembrance, justice, and trust in God.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: trained animals of prey
description: Animals taught to catch game for believers, trained for hunting after
the manner of dogs.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: those to whom the scriptures were given
description: People whose food is declared lawful to believers and to whom believers'
food is lawful.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: free women who are believers
description: Women whom believers are permitted to marry when dower and chaste conduct
are observed.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: free women of those who received scriptures before
description: Scriptural-community women whom believers are permitted to marry when
dower and chaste conduct are observed.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: unbelievers and sign-deniers
description: Those who do not believe and accuse divine signs of falsehood; they
are called companions of hell.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: certain men
description: Men who intended to stretch out their hands against believers, but
whose hands were restrained.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: In translator notes, Mohammed is the subject of reported occasions
in which attacks or treachery were planned against him and prevented.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Gabriel
description: In one translator-note story, Gabriel descends to warn Mohammed; in
another, Gabriel beats a sword out of an Arab's hand.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lawgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage presents God as source of lawful permissions and ritual requirements.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is described as swift in taking account and as promising reward or hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: protector
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God restrains hostile hands from hurting believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: commanded community
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The address repeatedly commands true believers concerning food, prayer, justice,
covenant remembrance, and trust.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: covenant party
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Believers are told to remember God's covenant made when they said they heard
and would obey.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: hunting intermediary
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The animals catch game for believers after being taught and trained.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:7
label: scriptural food-sharing group
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Their food and believers' food are mutually permitted.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:8
label: permitted marriage partner
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: The passage permits marriage to these women under stated conditions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:9
label: condemned rejecter
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: They are described as companions of hell for disbelief and accusing signs
of falsehood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: threatening adversary
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: They designed to stretch out their hands against believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:11
label: threatened prophet in translator notes
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The notes recount plots or attacks directed at Mohammed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:12
label: heavenly messenger in translator notes
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The notes describe Gabriel warning Mohammed or disarming an attacker.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: water for purification
literal_form: water used for washing before prayer and full washing after pollution
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: clean sand substitute
literal_form: fine clean sand rubbed on faces and hands when no water is available
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: covenant words
literal_form: the statement 'We have heard, and will obey'
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: restrained hands
literal_form: hands that hostile men intended to stretch out but which God restrained
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: tree in translator-note story
literal_form: a tree on which Mohammed is said to have hung his arms while resting
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: sword in translator-note story
literal_form: a sword drawn by an Arab of the desert and then knocked from his hand
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Lawful food and trained hunting animals
summary: The passage answers what food is lawful, permits good things and game caught
by trained animals, and commands commemoration of God's name over it.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Exchange with people of scripture and permitted marriage
summary: Food is mutually permitted between believers and people given scripture,
and certain marriages are permitted under dower and chastity conditions.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Purification before prayer
summary: Believers are instructed to wash with water before prayer, perform full
washing after pollution, or use fine clean sand if water is unavailable in specified
circumstances.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Covenant remembrance
summary: Believers are commanded to remember God's favor and covenant, associated
with their declaration of hearing and obedience.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Justice, reward, and hell
summary: Believers are ordered to witness justly despite hatred; believers who do
right are promised pardon and reward, while disbelieving sign-deniers are assigned
to hell.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Divine restraint of hostile hands
summary: Believers are reminded that men intended to harm them but God restrained
their hands, and they are told to fear and trust God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Reported attack traditions in translator notes
summary: Translator notes give several reported occasions for the verse, including
planned attacks during prayer, a treacherous millstone plot, and a sword encounter
near a tree.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: covenant of obedience
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: God's covenant with believers is explicitly remembered through the formula
of hearing and obeying.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The translator note links the formula to an oath of fidelity, but the
extraction uses only the passage's explicit covenant language.
- id: motif:2
label: divine judgment by reward and hell
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contrasts pardon and great reward for believers who do right
with hell for unbelievers and sign-deniers, and says God is swift in taking account.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives doctrinal judgment statements rather than a narrative
judgment scene.
- id: motif:3
label: ritual purification with water or earth substitute
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Prayer preparation requires washing with water, while clean sand substitutes
when water is unavailable under specified conditions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied motif-family taxonomy directly names ritual purification;
water is a supplied symbol, not a motif family.
- id: motif:4
label: divine protection from ambush or attack
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage states that hostile men intended to attack believers but God
restrained their hands; translator notes add reported attack-prevention stories.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The core verse is brief, and the detailed episodes are translator commentary
rather than the main scriptural passage.
- id: motif:5
label: sacred exchange with scriptural communities
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The passage permits mutual food exchange with those given scripture and permits
specified marriages with women from those communities.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy label is approximate; the passage frames this as lawful permission
rather than mythic exchange narrative.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 13631-13636
quote_or_summary: Good foods are allowed; trained animals of prey may catch food
for believers; God's name is to be commemorated; God is swift in taking account.
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 13637-13646
quote_or_summary: Food exchange with people given scripture is lawful; marriage
to free believing women and free women from prior scripture communities is permitted
with dower and chastity; renouncing faith makes works vain and leads to perishing
in the next life.
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 13647-13657
quote_or_summary: Before prayer believers wash faces, hands, heads, and feet; after
pollution they wash all over; without water in listed conditions they use fine
clean sand; God desires purification and completion of favor.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 13658-13662
quote_or_summary: Remember God's favor and covenant, when the people said, "We have
heard, and will obey."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 13663-13670
quote_or_summary: Believers must act justly as witnesses before God; God promises
pardon and great reward to believers who do right; unbelievers who accuse signs
of falsehood are companions of hell.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 13671-13674
quote_or_summary: Believers are reminded of God's favor when certain men intended
to stretch out hands against them, but God restrained those hands; believers should
trust in God.
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 13687-13701
quote_or_summary: 'Translator notes report possible occasions: idolaters planned
to attack during prayer; men from Koreidha allegedly plotted to drop a millstone
on Mohammed and Gabriel warned him; an Arab drew a sword near a tree, Gabriel
disarmed him, and the Arab professed Mohammedism.'
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: uncertain
notes: Main passage extraction is straightforward. Motif labels beyond explicit
covenant and judgment are more interpretive. Translator-note material is kept
separate from main-passage observations where possible.
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 the supplied passage text, metadata, and available taxonomy references. No comparison claims were added because the passage does not itself establish a concrete cross-textual comparison.
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