batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l16855-l16924
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l16855-l16924
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 16855-16924
start: '16855'
end: '16924'
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 includes Sale's notes on earlier Qur'anic material, including
a water-from-stone tradition and a Sabbath-transgression story, followed by verses
describing offenders transformed into apes, Jewish dispersion and testing, covenantal
obligations concerning the book of the law, the mountain of Sinai raised over
the people as they receive the law, a primordial witness by Adam's descendants
to God's lordship, and an unnamed person who abandons divine signs and is followed
by Satan.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A note reports a tradition in which a stone associated with Adam, Shoaib,
and Moses produced water through twelve orifices and rivulets for the tribes in
the camp.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A note identifies the city in the Sabbath story as Ailah or Elath, while also
reporting alternate identifications as Midian or Tiberias.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:3
text: Religious persons who observed the Sabbath are described in a note as attempting
to reclaim offenders until they despaired of success.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:4
text: Those who proudly refused to desist from what had been forbidden were told
to become apes driven away from human society.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The Lord declares that some nation would be sent against the Jews until the
day of resurrection to afflict them with grievous oppression.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: The Jews are described as dispersed among the nations, with some upright and
some otherwise.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The dispersed people are tested with prosperity and adversity so that they
might return from disobedience.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: A later posterity inherits the book of the law, receives temporal goods, and
says forgiveness will surely be granted.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:9
text: The covenant of the book of the law is described as requiring that they not
speak anything about God except the truth.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:10
text: Those who hold fast the book of the law and remain constant in prayer are
promised that their reward will not perish.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:11
text: The mountain of Sinai is shaken over the people like a covering, and they
imagine it falling upon them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:12
text: The people are told to receive the law with reverence and remember what it
contains.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:13
text: The Lord draws forth the posterity of the sons of Adam from their loins and
asks them to witness that he is their Lord.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:14
text: The descendants answer that they bear witness, so that they cannot later claim
negligence at the day of resurrection.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:15
text: The passage also rejects the excuse that later descendants should not be destroyed
for ancestral idolatry committed by vain men.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:16
text: An unnamed person is said to have received divine signs, departed from them,
and then been followed by Satan, becoming one of the seduced.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: The Lord / God
description: Divine speaker who punishes, forgives, tests, gives law, raises Sinai
over the people, and takes witness from Adam's descendants.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: The Jews / law-inheriting community
description: Community described as dispersed among nations, partly upright and
partly otherwise, inheriting the book of the law and receiving covenantal instruction.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Sabbath offenders
description: Those who refused to desist from forbidden conduct and were transformed
into apes driven away from human society.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Religious Sabbath observers
description: Persons described in a note as strictly observing the Sabbath and trying
to reclaim the offenders.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Posterity of the sons of Adam
description: Descendants drawn from the loins of the sons of Adam and made to witness
to God's lordship.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Unnamed recipient of signs
description: A person to whom signs were brought, who departed from them and became
seduced.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Satan
description: Figure who follows the unnamed recipient of signs, after which that
person becomes one of the seduced.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Adam
description: Named in a note as associated with a stone thrown down from paradise.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Shoaib
description: Named in a note as possessing the stone and giving it with the rod
to Moses.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Moses
description: Named in a note as receiving the stone and rod from Shoaib.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge and punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God commands punitive transformation and declares oppression until resurrection,
while also being described as punishing, forgiving, and merciful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: giver and enforcer of law
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God commands the people to receive and remember the law and invokes covenantal
truthfulness about God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: forbidden-action transgressors
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They refuse to desist from what was forbidden and are transformed into apes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: dispersed law-inheriting community
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They are dispersed among nations, inherit the book of the law, and are tested
with prosperity and adversity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: witnesses to divine lordship
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Adam's descendants are drawn forth and answer that they bear witness that
God is their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: admonishing Sabbath observers
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The note describes them as observing the Sabbath and trying to reclaim the
offenders.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:7
label: seduced abandoner of signs
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The unnamed figure receives signs, departs from them, and becomes one of
the seduced.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: satanic pursuer or seducer
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Satan follows the one who departed from the signs, after which he is seduced.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: figures in water-from-stone transmission note
assigned_to:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
basis: The note links Adam, Shoaib, and Moses with the stone and rod in the water
miracle tradition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: apes
literal_form: transformed apes driven away from human society
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: mountain of Sinai
literal_form: mountain shaken over the people as though it were a covering
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: book of the law
literal_form: inherited book of the law and its covenantal obligation to speak truth
about God
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: primordial witness
literal_form: posterity drawn from the loins of the sons of Adam and asked to witness
God's lordship
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: prosperity and adversity
literal_form: contrasting conditions used as tests
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: water from stone
literal_form: water issuing from a stone through twelve orifices and rivulets
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:7
label: day of resurrection
literal_form: future day invoked in relation to oppression and accountability
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: divine signs
literal_form: signs given to an unnamed person and then abandoned by him
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Water-from-stone commentary tradition
summary: A note describes a stone from paradise associated with Adam, Shoaib, and
Moses, from which water issues in twelve streams for the tribes.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Sabbath transgression and punitive transformation
summary: Those who refuse to desist from forbidden conduct are commanded to become
apes driven away from human society.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: scene:3
label: Dispersion, testing, and law-covenant accountability
summary: The Jews are dispersed among nations, tested with prosperity and adversity,
and described in relation to the inherited book of the law and its covenant.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Sinai raised over the law-receiving people
summary: The mountain of Sinai is shaken over the people like a covering, and they
are told to receive the law reverently and remember it.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Adam's descendants bear witness
summary: The Lord draws forth the posterity of the sons of Adam and has them testify
to his lordship, preventing later claims of ignorance.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Departure from signs and satanic following
summary: An unnamed person who received signs departs from them; Satan follows him,
and he becomes one of the seduced.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Punitive transformation into animals
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- shapeshifter
basis: Transgressors who refuse forbidden conduct are transformed into apes and
expelled from human society.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The transformation is punitive and involuntary; the available taxonomy
term 'shapeshifter' is broader than the specific passage pattern.
- id: motif:2
label: Covenant of law under a raised mountain
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The people receive the law with Sinai shaken over them like a covering, and
the passage emphasizes covenantal obligations of the book of the law.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is extracted from the law-reception scene and covenant language
within this translation.
- id: motif:3
label: Primordial testimony to divine lordship
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
- divine_judgment
- resurrection
basis: Adam's descendants are drawn forth to testify that God is their Lord, preventing
claims of ignorance at resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the event as accountability rather than narrating an
extended afterlife journey.
- id: motif:4
label: Testing by prosperity and adversity
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The dispersed community is tested by prosperity and adversity so that they
may return from disobedience.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents the test briefly and does not provide an extended
trial narrative.
- id: motif:5
label: Miraculous water from stone for twelve tribes
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A note reports water issuing from a stone in twelve streams, each running
to a tribe's quarter in the camp.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: This motif appears in Sale's commentary note within the passage, not in
the main verse segment reproduced here.
- id: motif:6
label: Loss of signs and satanic seduction
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: An unnamed person receives signs, departs from them, and is followed by Satan,
becoming seduced.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage begins the story but does not include the full narrative context
in this line range.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The Sabbath-transgression episode is explicitly linked by the note to an
earlier discussion in chapter 2, suggesting recurrence of the same narrative motif
within the nearby Qur'anic corpus as presented by this edition.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Chapter 2 Sabbath-transgressor story referenced in Sale's notes
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The present passage only provides a note reference to chapter 2 and
does not reproduce the full compared passage.
- id: claim:2
claim: The water-from-stone tradition is explicitly linked by the note to chapter
2, suggesting recurrence or elaboration of the same miracle motif within the edition's
Qur'anic commentary apparatus.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Chapter 2 water-from-stone miracle referenced in Sale's notes
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison rests on the note's cross-reference and added commentary
details, not on a side-by-side quotation of chapter 2.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 16855-16870
quote_or_summary: Sale's notes mention a tradition in which a stone from paradise
associated with Adam came into Shoaib's possession, was given with the rod to
Moses, and produced twelve water outlets and rivulets for the tribes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary only.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 16889-16894
quote_or_summary: Offenders who refused what was forbidden are commanded to become
apes driven away; the Lord declares future oppression of the Jews until resurrection
and is described as swift in punishment and merciful.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary only.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 16895-16906
quote_or_summary: The Jews are dispersed among nations, tested with prosperity and
adversity, and described as inheriting the book of the law; the passage invokes
a covenant of truthfulness about God and promises reward to those who hold the
law and pray.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary only.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 16907-16910
quote_or_summary: Sinai is shaken over the people like a covering, they think it
is falling, and they are told to receive and remember the law reverently.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary only.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 16911-16917
quote_or_summary: The Lord draws forth the posterity of the sons of Adam and asks
whether he is their Lord; they answer that they bear witness, so they cannot claim
ignorance at resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary only.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 16918-16924
quote_or_summary: The passage rejects excuses based on ancestral idolatry, says
divine signs are explained, and begins the story of a man who received signs,
departed from them, and was followed by Satan.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary only.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 16877-16888
quote_or_summary: Sale's notes identify the city of the Sabbath story as Ailah or
Elath, mention alternate identifications, and describe Sabbath-observing religious
persons who tried to reclaim offenders.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary only.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied line range. Several motifs derive
from commentary notes as well as translated verse text, and taxonomy mapping is
cautious where available labels are broad.
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: |-
No external sources were used. Comparisons are limited to explicit cross-references within the supplied passage.
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