batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l22594-l22671
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l22594-l22671
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVII. / IN
THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22594-22671
start: '22594'
end: '22671'
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 commentary on earlier historical identifications
and vengeance traditions, followed by Qur'anic verses describing mercy after chastisement,
the Koran’s guidance, reward and punishment, night and day as signs, each person’s
fate and record of deeds, individual accountability, warning through apostles
before punishment, destruction of corrupt cities, and hell for those who choose
only the transitory life.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Sale’s commentary reports several proposed historical identifications for
attacks on Jerusalem and includes a story in which blood on the altar stops after
an appeal concerning John.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage states that God may show mercy after chastisement, but if people
return to transgression, chastisement will return, and hell is appointed as the
prison of unbelievers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The Koran is described as directing to the most right way and announcing a
great reward for faithful people who do good works.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Those who do not believe in the life to come are said to have a grievous punishment
prepared for them.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Night and day are ordained as two signs; the night sign is blotted out and
the day sign shines so people may seek provision and compute time.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Every person’s fate is described as bound about the neck, and on the day of
resurrection an open book recording actions is produced.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Angels tell the person to read the book, and the person’s own soul is sufficient
as accountant against them on that day.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The passage states that no laden soul bears another’s burden and that punishment
does not come until an apostle has first been sent to warn.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: When a city’s affluent inhabitants act corruptly after being commanded to
obey the apostle, the city is destroyed with utter destruction.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The passage recalls that many generations have been consumed since Noah.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Those who choose the transitory life may receive what God pleases in advance,
but afterwards hell is appointed for them as an abode where they are scorched
and rejected from mercy.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: The divine speaker who shows mercy, chastises, appoints hell, ordains
night and day, produces the record, sends apostles, and destroys corrupt cities.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Unbelievers
description: Those for whom hell is appointed as a prison and who do not believe
in the life to come.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Faithful who do good works
description: Those who are promised a great reward.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Every person / soul
description: Each person has fate bound about the neck, receives a book of deeds,
and is accountable for their own soul.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Angels
description: They tell the person to read the open book of actions on the day of
resurrection.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Apostle
description: A warning messenger is sent before punishment; city inhabitants are
commanded to obey the apostle.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Affluent inhabitants of a city
description: They are commanded to obey the apostle but act corruptly, leading to
the city’s destruction.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Noah
description: Named as a temporal reference point after whom many generations have
been consumed.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: John
description: In Sale’s cited commentary, blood on the altar is identified as John’s
blood and stops after an appeal.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God chastises renewed transgression, prepares punishment, appoints hell,
and destroys corrupt cities.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:2
label: divine guide
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Koran is described as directing to the most right way, and apostles are
sent to warn before punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: cosmic ordainer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God ordains night and day as signs and explains the computation of time.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: punished unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Hell is appointed for unbelievers, and punishment is prepared for those denying
the life to come.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: rewarded righteous
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Faithful people who do good works are told they shall receive a great reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: accountable soul
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Each person receives their own record, and no soul bears another’s burden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: summoners to self-accounting
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The angels tell the person to read the book of deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: warning messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Punishment is preceded by the sending of an apostle to warn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: corrupt city elite
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The affluent inhabitants act corruptly after being commanded to obey the
apostle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:10
label: ancestral chronological marker
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Noah is named in the phrase about many generations consumed since him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: avenged slain holy figure in commentary
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The commentary story identifies the altar blood as John’s and frames the
stopping of the blood as connected to divine vengeance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: hell as prison and abode
literal_form: hell appointed as prison or abode of punishment
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: sym:2
label: night and day signs
literal_form: night and day as two signs, one blotted out and one shining forth
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: fate bound to the neck
literal_form: fate of every man bound about his neck
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: open book of deeds
literal_form: open book recording a person’s actions on the day of resurrection
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: destroyed corrupt city
literal_form: city destroyed after its inhabitants act corruptly
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: bubbling altar blood
literal_form: blood bubbling on the great altar in Sale’s cited commentary
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Commentarial vengeance tradition
summary: Sale reports commentator traditions explaining historical chastisements
and an altar-blood story in which John’s blood stops after an appeal to God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Mercy, return to transgression, and hell
summary: The passage says mercy may come hereafter, but renewed transgression brings
renewed chastisement, and hell is appointed for unbelievers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Guidance, reward, and punishment
summary: The Koran guides to the right way, promises reward to faithful doers of
good works, and warns of punishment for those who deny the life to come.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Night and day as signs
summary: Night and day are presented as signs enabling livelihood, reckoning years,
and computing time.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Resurrection accounting
summary: On the day of resurrection, each person receives an open book of recorded
actions, and angels command the person to read it as self-accounting.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Warning before communal destruction
summary: The passage states that no people are punished before a warning apostle
is sent, and corrupt affluent city inhabitants bring destruction upon their city.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:7
label: Choice of transitory life and later hell
summary: Those choosing the transitory life may receive worldly allotment, but afterwards
hell is appointed as their rejected and scorching abode.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment with reward and punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contrasts reward for faithful good works with punishment, hell,
and divine chastisement for unbelief, transgression, and corruption.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The extraction uses the supplied motif-family label broadly for judgment
themes within the passage.
- id: motif:2
label: resurrection record of deeds
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage explicitly describes the day of resurrection and the production
of an open book recording each person’s actions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes judgment/accounting rather than a narrative resurrection
journey.
- id: motif:3
label: warning messenger before destruction
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that punishment is not inflicted until an apostle has
been sent to warn, and then describes destruction of a corrupt city.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No specific city is named in the Qur'anic lines within this extracted
range.
- id: motif:4
label: cosmic dual signs of night and day
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: 'Night and day are explicitly paired as two signs with contrasting treatment:
night is blotted out and day shines forth.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents the pair as signs and practical markers of time,
not as personified cosmic opponents.
- id: motif:5
label: scriptural guidance as right path
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Koran is described as directing to the way that is most right and declaring
reward and punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy label 'wisdom' is approximate; the passage speaks
more specifically of guidance.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 22594-22635
quote_or_summary: Sale’s notes summarize commentator explanations of earlier transgressions
and enemies, including a story of a general seeing blood bubbling on the altar,
identifying it with John, and the blood stopping after an appeal by God’s permission.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 22639-22642
quote_or_summary: God may have mercy hereafter; if people return to transgression,
chastisement returns; hell is appointed as the prison of unbelievers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 22643-22648
quote_or_summary: The Koran directs to the most right way, promises a great reward
to faithful people who do good works, and says grievous punishment is prepared
for those who do not believe in the life to come.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 22650-22655
quote_or_summary: Night and day are ordained as two signs; the night sign is blotted
out and the day sign shines, enabling provision-seeking and computation of years
and time.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 22656-22660
quote_or_summary: Every person’s fate is bound about the neck; on the day of resurrection
an open book of recorded actions is produced, and angels tell the person to read
it as self-accounting.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 22661-22664
quote_or_summary: Right direction or error affects one’s own soul; no laden soul
bears another’s burden; no people are punished until an apostle has first been
sent to warn them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 22665-22669
quote_or_summary: When a city is to be destroyed, its affluent inhabitants are commanded
to obey the apostle, but their corruption justifies the sentence; many generations
have been consumed since Noah.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 22670-22671
quote_or_summary: Whoever chooses the transitory life may receive what God pleases
beforehand, but afterwards hell is appointed as an abode where the person is scorched
and rejected from mercy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The main Qur'anic themes are explicit; mapping to broad motif-family labels
is partly approximate. No comparison claims were added because the passage itself
does not make a comparative argument beyond its own tradition and commentary.
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: |-
Extraction uses only the supplied passage and metadata; commentary material is kept distinct from the Qur'anic sequence where possible.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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