batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l15551-l15639
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l15551-l15639
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 15551-15639
start: '15551'
end: '15639'
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 rejects unauthorized food taboos, states specific dietary prohibitions
and exceptions, recalls special prohibitions imposed on Jews, challenges idolaters
who attribute their idolatry to divine will, and lists divine commands concerning
worship, parents, children, sexual and violent wrongdoing, orphans, fair measure,
justice, and God's covenant.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The commentary describes pre-Islamic livestock restrictions involving idols,
male-only consumption, exempted animals, and embryos or young of certain cattle.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker says that the revealed law forbids carrion, poured-forth blood,
swine flesh, and animals slain in the name of someone other than God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A necessity exception is stated for a person compelled to eat forbidden things
without desire or wilful transgression.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The passage says that Jews were forbidden every beast with an undivided hoof
and certain fat of bullocks and sheep.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The Jewish dietary restriction is described as a recompense because of iniquity.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Idolaters are represented as claiming that, if God had pleased, they and their
fathers would not have practiced idolatry or forbidden anything.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says earlier people accused prophets of imposture until they experienced
severe punishment.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The addressee is told to ask opponents to produce witnesses that God forbade
their claimed prohibitions.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The passage commands avoidance of idolatry, kindness to parents, not killing
children from fear of poverty, avoidance of heinous crimes, and not killing a
soul God has forbidden to be killed except for just cause.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The passage commands protection of an orphan's substance until maturity, full
measure, just balance, justice in judgment even involving kin, and fulfillment
of God's covenant.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / LORD
description: The divine authority whose revelation defines prohibitions, mercy,
severity, provision, commands, and covenant.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the addressee commanded to say
description: The person addressed with repeated commands to say or rehearse divine
prohibitions to opponents.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: idolaters
description: Opponents who practice idolatry, attribute their conduct to God's will,
and are told to produce witnesses for their prohibitions.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Jews
description: A community said to have received specific dietary prohibitions concerning
hoofed beasts and animal fat.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: prophets before them
description: Earlier prophets whom previous people accused of imposture before punishment
came.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: parents, children, and orphans
description: Family members and vulnerable dependents named in the moral commands.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lawgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage attributes prohibitions and commandments to God and to what has
been revealed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: merciful and severe judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is described as gracious and merciful to the compelled person, while
divine severity is not averted from wicked people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: reciter or messenger of divine commands
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressee is repeatedly told to say and rehearse what the Lord has forbidden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: disputing idolaters
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They are described as making claims about God's will, accusing signs of falsehood,
and equalizing idols with their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: recipients of specific dietary restriction
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The passage says certain animals and fats were forbidden to the Jews.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: accused prophets
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Earlier people are said to have accused prophets of imposture.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: protected kin and dependents
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The commands require kindness to parents, preservation of children, and protection
of orphan property.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: forbidden foods
literal_form: carrion, poured-forth blood, swine flesh, and animals slain in another
name than God's
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: idols
literal_form: idols equalized with the Lord and served in pre-Islamic practices
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: restricted hoofed beast and animal fat
literal_form: beast having an undivided hoof and fat of bullocks and sheep
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: full measure and just balance
literal_form: full measure and a just balance
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: covenant of God
literal_form: the covenant of God
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Commentary on livestock taboos
summary: The notes explain Arab customs of reserving certain livestock or offspring
for idol-serving males and exempting some animals from ordinary uses.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Revealed dietary prohibition and mercy exception
summary: The addressee is told to declare that only specified foods are forbidden,
with mercy for one compelled by necessity without deliberate transgression.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Dietary restrictions imposed on Jews
summary: The passage states that certain animals and fats were forbidden to Jews
as recompense for iniquity.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Challenge to idolaters' claims
summary: The idolaters' fatalistic explanation is rejected; the addressee is instructed
to ask for knowledge or witnesses and not to follow those who deny the signs and
the life to come.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Rehearsal of moral commandments
summary: The passage lists commands concerning exclusive worship, family obligations,
preservation of life, sexual and moral wrongdoing, orphan property, fair measures,
just judgment, and God's covenant.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine lawgiving through prohibitions and commandments
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The passage presents prohibitions and moral commands as God's injunctions
and concludes with fulfillment of God's covenant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference is supported chiefly by the explicit phrase 'covenant
of God'; the passage is legal-exhortatory rather than narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: divine judgment against false attribution and idolatry
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Opponents who claim divine sanction are challenged, and earlier accusers
of prophets are said to have tasted severe punishment; God's severity is warned
against wicked people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The punishment is mentioned generally, without a detailed judgment scene.
- id: motif:3
label: mercy exception under necessity
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A person compelled by necessity to eat forbidden food, without lust or wilful
transgression, is said to receive the Lord's grace and mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly matches this legal-mercy pattern.
- id: motif:4
label: justice for vulnerable persons and fair dealing
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The commandments protect children and orphans and require full measure, just
balance, and justice even for or against kin.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: This is an ethical-legal pattern rather than a mythic narrative motif.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The translator's note links the prohibition of animal fat for Jews with Levitical
dietary law.
claim_level: same_function
target: Leviticus vii.23 and iii.16 as cited in the passage note
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison comes from the translator's note, not from an extended
comparison within the translated Qur'anic passage.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 15551-15580
quote_or_summary: Notes describe idol-serving males, exempted livestock such as
Bahra, Sba, and Hmi, embryos or young of such cattle, and Arab superstitious livestock
prohibitions.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 15581-15587
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told to say that nothing revealed is forbidden
to eat except carrion, poured-forth blood, swine flesh, or what is slain in another
name than God's; necessity without wilful transgression receives divine mercy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 15588-15592
quote_or_summary: Jews are said to have been forbidden every beast with an undivided
hoof and certain fat of bullocks and sheep, as recompense for iniquity.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 15593-15602
quote_or_summary: The passage answers accusations of imposture, warns that divine
severity will not be averted from the wicked, rejects idolaters' appeal to God's
will, and recalls previous accusers who tasted severe punishment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 15603-15609
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told to demand witnesses for claimed divine prohibitions
and not to follow those who deny the signs, disbelieve in the life to come, and
equalize idols with their Lord.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 15610-15616
quote_or_summary: 'The addressee is told to rehearse divine prohibitions: no idolatry,
kindness to parents, no killing children from fear of poverty, avoidance of heinous
crimes, and no unlawful killing.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 15617-15620
quote_or_summary: Commands include not misusing orphan property before maturity,
using full measure and just balance, judging justly even with kin, and fulfilling
the covenant of God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: citation
locator: lines 15622-15626
quote_or_summary: A note cites Leviticus vii.23 and iii.16 concerning the fat restriction
and explains the fat of sheep tails in the east.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The extraction is based on the supplied English translation and notes. Motif
labels are cautious because the passage is primarily legal and polemical rather
than narrative mythology.
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: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used; no external taxonomy IDs beyond provided references were added.
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