batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l15807-l15884
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l15807-l15884
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15807-15884
start: '15807'
end: '15884'
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: O children of Adam, let not Satan seduce you, as he expelled your parents
out of paradise...
summary: 'The passage includes commentary on the devil, serpent, nakedness, and
clothing after the expulsion from paradise, followed by admonitions to the children
of Adam: avoid Satanic seduction, worship God sincerely, wear decent apparel at
worship, eat and drink without excess, avoid forbidden actions and idolatry, heed
apostles who expound divine signs, and recognize that unbelievers who reject the
signs face death, self-witness against themselves, and hell fire.'
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A note says commentators suppose the devil's reprieve is limited and that
he will die with other creatures at the second sound of the trumpet.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A note reports a Barnabas tradition in which the serpent is expelled from
paradise and has its legs cut off by the angel Michael with the sword of God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The same note reports that Satan is condemned to consume the bodily uncleanness
of Adam's descendants.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A note explains that the parents' nakedness was not previously perceived and
gives explanations involving clothing of light, garments of paradise, hair, and
fig-leaves.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The main passage warns the children of Adam not to let Satan seduce them as
he expelled their parents from paradise by stripping their clothing and showing
their nakedness.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Satan and his companions are described as seeing humans while humans do not
see them.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The devils are appointed as patrons of those who do not believe.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The passage rejects the claim that God commands filthy actions inherited from
the fathers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker commands justice, prayer at every place of worship, and sincere
religion directed to God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The passage says humans were first produced by God and shall return to him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: At every place of worship, the children of Adam are told to take decent apparel,
eat and drink, and avoid excess.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Decent apparel and good food are described as provided by God for servants,
with a special relation to believers on the day of resurrection.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:13
text: Forbidden matters include filthy actions, iniquity, unjust violence, associating
unauthorized beings with God, and speaking of God without knowledge.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:14
text: Every nation is said to have a prefixed term, and when it expires there is
neither delay nor anticipation.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:15
text: Apostles from among humans are said to come and expound God's signs; those
who fear God and amend will have no fear or grief.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:16
text: Those who accuse the signs of falsehood and proudly reject them are called
companions of hell fire who remain there forever.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:17
text: Messengers come to the unjust at death, question them about the idols they
invoked besides God, and the people testify against themselves as unbelievers.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine speaker or referent who commands justice, forbids wrongful
actions, provides apparel and food, sends signs and apostles, fixes terms, judges
rejection, and is contrasted with idols.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Satan / devil
description: The tempter who seduced the parents of the children of Adam, expelled
them from paradise by stripping their clothing, sees humans unseen, and in notes
is reprieved only for a time and punished for deception.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Serpent
description: In the note, the serpent is said to have introduced the devil into
paradise and is punished by expulsion and loss of legs.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Michael
description: In the note, Michael is the angel who has the sword of God and cuts
off the serpent's legs.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Children of Adam
description: The addressed human audience warned against Satan, instructed in worship,
apparel, moderation, justice, and avoidance of forbidden actions.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Parents of the children of Adam
description: The primal parents who were expelled from paradise after Satan's seduction
and whose clothing was stripped to reveal nakedness.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Devils and Satan's companions
description: Unseen beings associated with Satan and appointed as patrons of those
who do not believe.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Apostles
description: Human messengers who come to expound God's signs.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Rejecters of the signs / unbelievers
description: Those who accuse the signs of falsehood, proudly reject them, invoke
idols besides God, and bear witness against themselves.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Messengers at death
description: Messengers who come to the unjust, cause them to die, and ask about
the idols invoked besides God.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Idols invoked besides God
description: Objects or beings called upon besides God, described by the dying unbelievers
as having disappeared from them.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine commander and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God commands justice and sincere worship, forbids wrongdoing and idolatry,
fixes the term of nations, sends apostles, and assigns consequences to rejection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:2
label: tempter and deceiver
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Satan is said to have seduced the parents from paradise and is associated
with unseen influence over humans.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: punished intermediary of paradise transgression
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The note says the serpent introduced the devil into paradise and is expelled
and maimed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: angelic executor of divine sentence
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Michael holds the sword of God and cuts off the serpent's legs in the cited
note.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: admonished human audience
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The children of Adam are directly warned, instructed in worship, and told
to avoid excess and forbidden actions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: expelled primal parents
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They are described as expelled from paradise after Satan's seduction and
exposed through loss of clothing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: unseen patrons of unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The devils are described as patrons of those who do not believe, and Satan
with his companions sees humans unseen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: expounders of divine signs
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Apostles are said to come from among humans and expound God's signs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:9
label: condemned rejecters
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Those who reject signs are companions of hell fire and later testify against
themselves as unbelievers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:10
label: death messengers and interrogators
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The messengers come, cause the unjust to die, and ask about the idols they
invoked.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:11
label: failed objects of invocation
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The idols called upon besides God are said to have disappeared from the dying
unbelievers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: serpent
literal_form: Serpent punished after introducing the devil into paradise in the
cited note.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: sword of God
literal_form: The sword held by Michael and used against the serpent in the cited
note.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: clothing / decent apparel
literal_form: Paradisal clothing stripped from the parents and later decent apparel
commanded at places of worship.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: nakedness
literal_form: The parents' nakedness, revealed after Satan strips their clothing.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: fig-leaves
literal_form: Leaves identified in a note as the covering used after nakedness was
perceived.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: trumpet
literal_form: The second sound of the trumpet at which the devil and other creatures
die, according to commentators cited in the note.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:7
label: places of worship
literal_form: Locations where prayer is to be made and decent apparel taken.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:8
label: food and drink
literal_form: Good things provided for food and the command to eat and drink without
excess.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:9
label: hell fire
literal_form: Fire in which the rejecters of signs remain forever.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:10
label: book of God's decrees
literal_form: The written source according to which the unjust receive their worldly
portion until death.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:11
label: idols
literal_form: The invoked entities besides God that disappear from the unbelievers
at death.
associated_figures:
- fig:11
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Limited reprieve of the devil
summary: Commentators are reported to hold that the devil's reprieve is not unlimited
and that he dies with other creatures at the second trumpet sound.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Serpent and Satan punished in a Barnabas tradition
summary: A note cites a tradition in which the serpent is expelled and maimed by
Michael with the sword of God, while Satan is punished for deceiving the first
parents.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Warning from the expulsion from paradise
summary: The children of Adam are warned not to be seduced by Satan as their parents
were expelled from paradise and exposed through loss of clothing.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Commands for worship, justice, apparel, and moderation
summary: The addressed audience is told that God commands justice, sincere prayer
at worship places, decent apparel, food and drink without excess, and rejection
of filthy actions and false claims about God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Guidance, error, and return to God
summary: The passage states that humans return to God, with some directed and others
justly led into error because they take devils as patrons while thinking themselves
rightly directed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Fixed term and prophetic warning
summary: Every nation has a fixed term; apostles come to expound signs, and those
who fear God and amend are promised freedom from fear and grief.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Rejection, death interrogation, and hell
summary: Rejecters of signs are assigned to hell fire; messengers come at death,
ask about the idols invoked besides God, and the dying bear witness against themselves
as unbelievers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine judgment of belief, deeds, and rejection of signs
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage presents divine commands and prohibitions, fixed terms, apostles
bearing signs, self-witness by unbelievers, and eternal hell fire for those who
reject the signs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: The extraction is limited to this passage and its translator's notes;
it does not establish broader doctrinal context.
- id: motif:2
label: Return to God and day of resurrection
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage says humans were produced by God and shall return to him, mentions
the day of resurrection, and the notes mention death at the second trumpet sound.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives brief statements rather than a detailed resurrection
narrative.
- id: motif:3
label: Satanic seduction causing expulsion from paradise
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The children of Adam are warned against Satan's seduction by recalling that
he expelled their parents from paradise and exposed their nakedness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes warning and moral instruction more than a full
departure tale.
- id: motif:4
label: Serpent as punished participant in paradise transgression
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
basis: A translator's note cites a tradition in which the serpent introduces the
devil into paradise and is punished by expulsion and loss of legs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: This motif is in the passage's note, not in the main Qur'anic excerpt,
and is attributed to a Barnabas tradition as reported by the translator.
- id: motif:5
label: Unseen demonic patrons of unbelievers
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The devils are said to be patrons of unbelievers, and Satan with his companions
sees humans while humans do not see them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: No taxonomy reference is assigned because the available motif list does
not contain a direct demonic-patron category.
- id: motif:6
label: Sacred regulation of clothing, food, and worship
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The children of Adam are commanded to take decent apparel at worship places
and to eat and drink without excess, while apparel and food are described as provided
by God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: This is a ritual-ethical pattern in the passage, not a narrative myth
motif in the narrow sense.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits the divine judgment motif family through its sequence of
divine signs, moral commands, rejection, deathbed recognition, self-witness, and
hell fire.
claim_level: same_motif
target: 'motif_family: divine_judgment'
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a motif-family classification only; it does not imply historical
contact or dependence beyond the passage.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage fits a resurrection/return pattern by linking creation, return
to God, the day of resurrection, and commentary on the trumpet associated with
creaturely death.
claim_level: same_motif
target: 'motif_family: resurrection'
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not narrate resurrection in detail; some support comes
from commentary rather than the main excerpt.
- id: claim:3
claim: The cited note supports a serpent motif in which a serpent mediates entry
of evil into paradise and receives bodily punishment.
claim_level: same_motif
target: 'symbol/motif: serpent'
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The serpent material is explicitly in the translator's note and attributed
to a Barnabas tradition, not directly to the main Qur'anic verses in this excerpt.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 15807-15810, note g
quote_or_summary: Commentators suppose the devil's reprieve is not fully granted
and that he will die with other creatures at the second sound of the trumpet.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 15813-15833, note i
quote_or_summary: A cited Barnabas tradition says the serpent introduced the devil
into paradise, is expelled and has its legs cut off by Michael with the sword
of God; Satan is punished for deceiving the first parents.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 15834-15840, notes k-l
quote_or_summary: Notes explain that the first parents' nakedness had not been perceived
before; explanations include clothing of light, garments of paradise, hair, and
fig-leaves.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 15849-15853
quote_or_summary: '"O children of Adam, let not Satan seduce you, as he expelled
your parents out of paradise, by stripping them of their clothing..."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 15852-15857
quote_or_summary: Satan and his companions see humans unseen; devils are patrons
of unbelievers; the passage rejects claims that God commands filthy actions inherited
from fathers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 15858-15864
quote_or_summary: The speaker commands justice, prayer at worship places, sincere
religion to God, return to God, and distinguishes those directed from those led
into error by taking devils as patrons.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 15865-15872
quote_or_summary: The children of Adam are told to take decent apparel at worship,
eat and drink without excess; apparel and good food are described as God's provision
and linked to believers on the day of resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 15873-15877
quote_or_summary: Forbidden matters include open and concealed filthy actions, iniquity,
unjust violence, unauthorized association with God, and speaking of God without
knowledge.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 15878-15880
quote_or_summary: '"Unto every nation there is a prefixed term..."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote used.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 15881-15884 and following sentence within supplied passage
quote_or_summary: Apostles from among humans come to expound signs; those who fear
God and amend have no fear and are not grieved.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: supplied passage after line 15884, continuation within provided range text
quote_or_summary: Those who accuse the signs of falsehood and proudly reject them
are companions of hell fire and remain there forever.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: supplied passage final paragraph
quote_or_summary: Those who lie about God or reject signs receive their worldly
portion until messengers come, cause them to die, ask about idols invoked besides
God, and they testify against themselves as unbelievers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The main passage is clear for judgment, worship, Satanic warning, and resurrection/return
themes. Some serpent and first-parents details come from translator's notes and
cited commentary, so they require review as note-level rather than main-text evidence.
Line-locator precision is limited by the supplied excerpt formatting.
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 and metadata. Taxonomy references are limited to available motif families and symbols.
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