batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l21283-l21372
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l21283-l21372
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIV. / IN
THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21283-21372
start: '21283'
end: '21372'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an), Sale / Project Gutenberg English translation
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage describes Satan speaking after judgment, admitting that he
deceived people but had no power to compel them, and renouncing their association
of him with God. It contrasts the punishment of the unjust with the entry of believers
into gardens with flowing rivers and a greeting of peace. It gives a parable of
a good word as a stable, fruitful tree reaching heaven, and an evil word as an
uprooted unstable tree. It also warns against changing God's grace into infidelity,
setting up idols as partners with God, and neglecting prayer and almsgiving before
a final day when ordinary exchange and friendship will not avail.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Satan is represented as speaking after judgment has been given.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Satan says God promised truth, while he made a promise and deceived people.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Satan denies having power to compel people and tells them to accuse themselves
rather than him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: Satan says he cannot assist the judged people and that they cannot assist
him.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: A grievous punishment is said to be prepared for the unjust.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: Believers who have wrought righteousness are to be introduced into gardens
with flowing rivers and remain there forever by their Lord's permission.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The greeting in the gardens is stated to be peace.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: A good word is compared to a good tree with a root fixed in the earth and
branches reaching heaven.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The good tree bears fruit in all seasons by the will of its Lord.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: An evil word is compared to an evil tree torn up from the face of the earth
and lacking stability.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: God is said to confirm believers by the steadfast word of faith in this life
and the life to come.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: Certain people are described as changing God's grace to infidelity and causing
their people to descend into the house of perdition, identified as hell.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:13
text: Some people set up idols as co-partners with God in order to cause men to
stray from God's path.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:14
text: Believing servants are instructed to be assiduous in prayer and to give alms
privately and publicly before a day when there is no buying, selling, or friendship.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: The divine figure who promises truth, prepares punishment, admits believers
to gardens, propounds parables, confirms believers, and leads the wicked into
error.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Satan
description: A speaker after judgment who admits deception, denies coercive power,
refuses mutual assistance, and renounces the people's association of him with
God.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Believers who wrought righteousness
description: Those who believe and do righteousness and are introduced into gardens
with rivers.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Unjust / wicked
description: Those for whom grievous punishment is prepared and whom God leads into
error.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: People who set up idols as co-partners
description: People described as setting up idols with God and causing men to stray
from God's path.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Servants who have believed
description: Believing servants instructed to pray and give alms before the final
day.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Judgment is given, punishment is prepared for the unjust, and afterlife outcomes
are assigned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: divine teacher through parable
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to put forth and propound parables so that people may be instructed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: confirmer of believers
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God confirms those who believe by the steadfast word of faith.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: deceiver without compulsion
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Satan says he deceived people but had no power to compel them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: righteous recipients of paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Believers who wrought righteousness are introduced into gardens with rivers
and remain forever.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: punished wrongdoers
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: A grievous punishment is prepared for the unjust, and the wicked are led
into error.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: idolatrous misleaders
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They set up idols as partners with God in order to cause people to stray
from God's path.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: commanded worshippers and almsgivers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They are commanded to pray and give alms privately and publicly before the
final day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: good tree
literal_form: A tree whose root is firmly fixed in the earth, whose branches reach
heaven, and which bears fruit in all seasons.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: evil tree
literal_form: A tree torn up from the face of the earth and lacking stability.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: flowing rivers in gardens
literal_form: Rivers flowing within gardens assigned to righteous believers.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: hell fire
literal_form: Fire into which those departing from divine path are warned they will
go.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: idols as co-partners
literal_form: Idols set up as co-partners with God.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: day without exchange
literal_form: A day on which there is no buying, selling, or friendship.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Satan's speech after judgment
summary: After judgment, Satan states that God promised truth, that he deceived
people, that he could not compel them, and that blame rests with those who answered
his call.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Believers admitted to gardens
summary: Believers who acted righteously are admitted by their Lord's permission
into gardens with rivers and receive a greeting of peace.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Parable of good and evil trees
summary: God gives a parable contrasting a good word as a stable, heaven-reaching,
fruitful tree with an evil word as an uprooted, unstable tree.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Warning against infidelity and idolatry
summary: People who change God's grace into infidelity and set up idols as partners
are said to lead others toward perdition and hell fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Instruction before the final day
summary: Believing servants are told to maintain prayer and give alms before the
day when ordinary exchange and friendship will not be available.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: judgment followed by opposed afterlife destinies
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage presents judgment, grievous punishment for the unjust, and gardens
with rivers for righteous believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes judgment and destinations but does not provide
a detailed journey map.
- id: motif:2
label: tree as moral-spiritual parable
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_tree_axis
basis: A good word is figured as a tree rooted in earth, reaching heaven, and bearing
fruit continually; an evil word is figured as an uprooted unstable tree.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The text explicitly presents the trees as parables of words; classification
as a sacred-tree or axis motif is interpretive and should be reviewed.
- id: motif:3
label: deceiver disclaims responsibility after judgment
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Satan admits deception but denies coercive power and tells people to blame
themselves after judgment has been given.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: No taxonomy reference was supplied for a tempter or deceiver motif.
- id: motif:4
label: moral duality of good and evil word, believer and wicked
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The passage contrasts good word and evil word, believers and wicked, gardens
and hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The duality is moral and didactic rather than a fully developed cosmological
dualism.
- id: motif:5
label: religious instruction before an irreversible final day
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Believers are commanded to pray and give alms before a day when buying, selling,
and friendship no longer avail.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The supplied taxonomy has no exact reference for final-day preparation
through worship and almsgiving.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 21295-21300 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“And Satan shall say, after judgment shall have been given...
I also made you a promise; but I deceived you. Yet I had not any power over you
to compel you... accuse not me, but accuse yourselves.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 21300-21303 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“I cannot assist you; neither can ye assist me... A grievous
punishment is prepared for the unjust.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 21304-21307 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“they who shall have believed and wrought righteousness shall
be introduced into gardens, wherein rivers flow... and their salutation therein
shall be, Peace!”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 21308-21312 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“a good word, as a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed in the
earth, and whose branches reach unto heaven... bringeth forth its fruit in all
seasons.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 21313-21315 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“the likeness of an evil word is as an evil tree; which is torn
up from the face of the earth, and hath no stability.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 21316-21318 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“GOD shall confirm them who believe, by the steadfast word of
faith, both in this life and in that which is to come... GOD shall lead the wicked
into error.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 21319-21322 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“those who have changed the grace of GOD to infidelity... cause
their people to descend into the house of perdition, namely, into hell.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 21323-21327 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“They also set up idols as co-partners with GOD... your departure
hence shall be into hell fire.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 21328-21331 within supplied range
quote_or_summary: "“be assiduous at prayer, and give alms... both privately and
in public; before the day cometh, wherein there shall be no buying nor selling,
neither any friendship.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:10
type: note
locator: commentary notes within lines 21283-21372
quote_or_summary: Commentary notes discuss interpretations of remission, the identity
of speakers in a prior verse, matter issuing from the damned, Satan's renunciation,
the meaning of the good and evil word, and possible historical context for ingratitude.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized commentary evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is supported by the supplied passage. Motif assignments
are cautious where taxonomy labels are broader than the passage's explicit wording.
No comparison claims were made because the passage does not itself provide cross-textual
comparison.
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. Commentary material was summarized as evidence but not treated as a separate narrative scene unless directly relevant.
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