batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l14641-l14704
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l14641-l14704
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 14641-14704
start: '14641'
end: '14704'
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 of Chapter VI, 'Cattle,' praising God as creator of heavens, earth,
darkness, light, and humanity from clay; describing unbelief, rejection of signs,
destroyed earlier generations, refusal even of a tangible book, demands for an
angel, mocked apostles, divine judgment, mercy, and gathering on the day of resurrection.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: God is described as creating the heavens and the earth and ordaining darkness
and light.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Human beings are described as created from clay, with a decreed life term
and another prefixed term with God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: God is said to know what people keep secret, what they publish, and what they
deserve.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The unbelievers are described as turning away from signs and gainsaying truth
after it comes to them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Earlier generations are described as established in the earth, given abundant
rain and rivers, then destroyed for their sins and replaced by other generations.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: A hypothetical book descending on paper and being handled by the unbelievers
is described; the unbelievers would call it manifest sorcery.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The unbelievers ask for an angel to be sent down, and the passage says that
if an angel had been sent, the matter would have been decreed and they would not
have been granted time.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: If an angel were appointed as messenger, the angel would be sent in the form
of a man and clothed like them.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Other apostles before the addressed prophet are said to have been laughed
to scorn, and judgment encompassed those who laughed.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: The audience is told to go through the earth and behold the end of those who
accused prophets of imposture.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: God is said to have prescribed mercy to himself and to gather people together
on the day of resurrection.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Creator of heavens, earth, darkness, light, and humanity; knower of
secrets; owner of what is in heaven and earth; prescriber of mercy; gatherer on
the day of resurrection.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:11
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Unbelievers / those who believe not
description: Those who equalize other gods with God, doubt, retire from signs, gainsay
truth, demand an angel, and would reject a paper book as sorcery.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Destroyed earlier generations
description: Prior generations established in the earth, given rain and rivers,
destroyed in their sins, and followed by other generations.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Addressed prophet / thee
description: The addressee to whom a book might hypothetically descend and before
whom other apostles had also been mocked.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Angel
description: A heavenly being requested by unbelievers; if appointed as messenger,
would be sent in the form of a man and clothed like humans.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Other apostles
description: Earlier apostles who were laughed to scorn before the addressed prophet.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Accusers of prophets
description: Those whose end the audience is instructed to behold by traveling through
the earth.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: creator
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God creates heavens, earth, darkness, light, and humans from clay.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: knower of hidden and public things
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God knows what people keep secret, what they publish, and what they deserve.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: judge and destroyer of sinful generations
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage attributes destruction of earlier generations in their sins to
God and describes judgment encompassing mockers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: merciful gatherer at resurrection
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God prescribes mercy to himself and will gather people on the day of resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:5
label: unbelieving rejecters of signs
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They retire from signs, gainsay truth, and would call a descending paper
book sorcery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: accusers or mockers of prophets
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:7
basis: The passage describes people who laugh apostles to scorn or accuse prophets
of imposture.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:7
label: destroyed predecessors
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Earlier generations are destroyed in their sins after receiving prosperity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: apostolic messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:6
basis: The passage addresses a prophetic recipient and mentions other apostles before
him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:9
label: hypothetical angelic messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage discusses an angel being sent down and, if appointed messenger,
sent in human form.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: darkness and light
literal_form: Darkness and light ordained by God
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: clay
literal_form: Clay as the material from which humans are created
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: abundant rain and rivers
literal_form: Heaven sent to rain abundantly and rivers flowing under their feet
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: book written on paper
literal_form: A book caused to descend on paper and handled by hands
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: angel sent down
literal_form: An angel requested to descend and possibly appear in the form of a
man
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: day of resurrection
literal_form: The day on which people are gathered together
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:7
label: journey through the earth
literal_form: Instruction to go through the earth and behold the end of past accusers
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Creation and divine knowledge
summary: God is praised as creator of heaven, earth, darkness, light, and humans
from clay; he decrees terms and knows hidden and public deeds.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Rejection of signs and truth
summary: Signs of the Lord come, but the unbelievers turn away, gainsay truth, and
mock what will later bring them a message.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Destroyed prosperous generations
summary: Earlier generations receive establishment, abundant rain, and rivers, but
are destroyed in their sins and replaced by other generations.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Rejected descending book
summary: Even if a book on paper descended and was handled by their hands, the unbelievers
would call it manifest sorcery.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Demand for an angel
summary: The unbelievers demand that an angel be sent down; the passage says such
a sending would bring decree without delay, and that an angelic messenger would
appear as a clothed man.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: Mocked apostles and judgment
summary: Earlier apostles were mocked, but the judgment mocked by the scoffers encompassed
them; the audience is told to observe the end of prophet-accusers.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Mercy and resurrection gathering
summary: God is declared owner of heaven and earth, prescribes mercy to himself,
and will gather people on the day of resurrection.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Creation of humans from clay
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage explicitly says God created humans from clay.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy family exactly matches creation from clay.
- id: motif:2
label: Cosmic ordering of darkness and light
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The passage pairs darkness and light as things ordained by God after creation
of heavens and earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states the pair literally but does not elaborate a dualist
cosmology.
- id: motif:3
label: Divine judgment on rejecting peoples
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Earlier prosperous generations are destroyed for sins, and mockers of apostles
are encompassed by judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The specific identities of the generations are supplied only in the translator's
note, not in the main passage wording.
- id: motif:4
label: Destruction followed by replacement generations
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage says destroyed generations are followed by other generations
raised after them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: This is succession after destruction, not necessarily rebirth of the same
group.
- id: motif:5
label: Resurrection gathering
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage states that God will gather people together on the day of resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a doctrinal assertion rather than an extended afterlife
journey narrative.
- id: motif:6
label: Heavenly messenger in human form
taxonomy_refs:
- shapeshifter
basis: The passage says that if an angel were appointed messenger, the angel would
be sent in the form of a man and clothed like humans.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The scene is hypothetical and framed as divine accommodation to human
perception, not a full transformation story.
- id: motif:7
label: Rejected tangible revelation
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Even a book descending on paper and handled by the unbelievers would be dismissed
as sorcery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy family directly corresponds to this motif.
- id: motif:8
label: Mercy delaying immediate condemnation
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage explains that sending the demanded angel would have decreed the
matter and removed time for repentance; God is also said to prescribe mercy to
himself.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The link between delayed judgment and mercy is partly clarified by the
translator's note but also supported by adjacent wording.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself places the addressed prophet in a repeated pattern in
which earlier apostles were mocked and their mockers later faced judgment.
claim_level: same_function
target: Earlier apostles and mocked-prophet pattern within the passage's prophetic
sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not name the earlier apostles in the main text and
does not provide detailed narratives for comparison.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 14647-14650
quote_or_summary: "“GOD, who hath created the heavens and the earth, and hath ordained
the darkness and the light.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 14651-14653
quote_or_summary: God created humans from clay and decreed the term of their lives,
with another prefixed term with him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 14654-14655
quote_or_summary: God is in heaven and earth and knows what people keep secret,
publish, and deserve.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 14656-14660
quote_or_summary: Signs come from the Lord, but the people turn away; they gainsay
the truth after it comes and mock what will concern them later.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 14661-14666
quote_or_summary: Many previous generations were established in the earth, given
abundant rain and rivers, then destroyed in their sins and replaced by other generations.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 14667-14670
quote_or_summary: Even if a book written on paper descended to the addressee and
the unbelievers handled it, they would call it manifest sorcery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 14671-14674
quote_or_summary: The people say they will not believe unless an angel is sent down;
if an angel were sent, the matter would be decreed and they would not be granted
time.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 14675-14677
quote_or_summary: If God appointed an angel as messenger, the angel would be sent
in the form of a man and clothed as humans are clothed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 14678-14680
quote_or_summary: Other apostles were laughed to scorn before the addressee, but
the mocked judgment encompassed those who laughed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 14681-14683
quote_or_summary: The audience is told to go through the earth and behold the end
of those who accused prophets of imposture.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 14684-14689
quote_or_summary: Whatever is in heaven and earth belongs to God; he has prescribed
mercy to himself and will gather people on the day of resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based directly on the supplied English passage. Motif labels
using taxonomy refs are limited to the provided taxonomy list and remain draft-level
pending human review.
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: |-
Translator footnotes are present in the supplied passage, but motif extraction primarily uses the main passage wording.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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