batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l23810-l23866
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l23810-l23866
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. /
IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23810-23866
start: '23810'
end: '23866'
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 describes a completed wall that Gog and Magog cannot cross
or pierce, Dhu'lkarnein's statement that the wall is a mercy from the Lord and
will later be reduced to dust, an eschatological tumult with a trumpet and gathering,
judgment of unbelievers with hell, reward of believers with paradise, the inexhaustibility
of the Lord's words, and a declaration of monotheistic revelation and righteous
worship. Notes explain the wall's construction and connect Gog and Magog's release
with the period before resurrection.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: After the wall is finished, Gog and Magog cannot scale it or dig through it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Dhu'lkarnein calls the wall a mercy from his Lord and says it will be reduced
to dust when the Lord's prediction is fulfilled.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A day is described when some press tumultuously like waves on others, a trumpet
is sounded, and they are gathered together.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Hell is set before unbelievers whose eyes are veiled from remembrance and
who could not hear the divine words.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Unbelievers' works are declared vain, and hell is named as their reward because
they disbelieved and derided signs and apostles.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Those who believe and do good works are said to have the gardens of paradise
as an everlasting abode.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The sea is used as a hypothetical supply of ink for writing the Lord's words,
but it would fail before the words failed.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker says he is only a man and that it is revealed to him that God
is one God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: A commentary note describes the wall as involving water, stone, melted brass,
iron, wood, coals, fire, bellows, and a height equal to mountains.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: A commentary note says Gog and Magog will break forth from confinement sometime
before the resurrection.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Gog and Magog
description: A group unable to scale or dig through the finished wall, later described
in a note as breaking forth from confinement before resurrection.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Dhu'lkarnein
description: The speaker who identifies the wall as a mercy from his Lord and predicts
its future reduction to dust.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: the Lord / God
description: The deity whose prediction is true, who gathers beings, sets hell before
unbelievers, rewards believers with paradise, and is declared to be one God.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: unbelievers / infidels
description: Those whose eyes are veiled from divine remembrance, whose works are
vain, and for whom hell is prepared.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: believers who do good works
description: Those promised the gardens of paradise as an everlasting abode.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: first-person messenger
description: The speaker who says he is only a man and that revelation has come
to him declaring one God.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: confined hostile people
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: They are blocked by the completed wall and described in a note as later breaking
forth from confinement.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- id: role:2
label: wall interpreter and prophetic speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: He explains the wall as mercy from the Lord and speaks of its future dissolution.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: divine judge and revealer
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage attributes judgment, hell, paradise, gathering, true prediction,
and monotheistic revelation to God or the Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: judged unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: They are described as veiled from remembrance, unbelieving, and assigned
hell as reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: righteous rewarded group
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They believe, do good works, and receive the gardens of paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: human recipient of revelation
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The speaker states that he is a man and that it is revealed to him that God
is one.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wall / barrier
literal_form: A finished wall that Gog and Magog cannot scale or dig through, later
to be reduced to dust.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: trumpet
literal_form: A trumpet sounded on the day of tumult and gathering.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: hell
literal_form: Hell set before unbelievers and prepared as the abode or reward of
infidels.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: gardens of paradise
literal_form: Gardens of paradise given as the abode of believers who do good works.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: sea as ink
literal_form: The sea imagined as ink for writing the words of the Lord.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: water in wall foundation
literal_form: Water found during digging for the wall foundation according to the
commentary note.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: fire used in wall construction
literal_form: Fire applied to combustibles to heat iron in the commentary description
of the wall's construction.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: mountain-height wall
literal_form: The wall's construction is described in a note as equalling the height
of the mountains.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Gog and Magog blocked by the wall
summary: The completed wall prevents Gog and Magog from climbing over it or digging
through it.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Dhu'lkarnein explains the wall's temporary mercy
summary: Dhu'lkarnein states that the wall is a mercy from the Lord and that the
Lord will reduce it to dust when the prediction is fulfilled.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Eschatological tumult, trumpet, and gathering
summary: A day is described when beings press like waves, a trumpet is sounded,
and they are gathered together.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: scene:4
label: Judgment of unbelievers
summary: Hell is shown to unbelievers, their works are voided, and hell is assigned
as their reward for disbelief and derision.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Reward of believers
summary: Believers who do good works receive the gardens of paradise and remain
there forever.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Inexhaustible words of the Lord
summary: The sea, even with another sea added, would fail as ink before the words
of the Lord failed.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Human messenger and one God
summary: The first-person speaker declares himself a man who receives revelation
that God is one and instructs righteous worship without associating others with
the Lord.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Commentarial construction of the wall
summary: A note describes the wall as built with stone, iron, melted brass, combustibles,
fire, bellows, water, and mountain-like height.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: apocalyptic barrier restraining Gog and Magog
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The wall confines Gog and Magog, and a note says they will break forth before
the resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage excerpt gives only the end of the wall episode; broader narrative
details are outside the supplied range.
- id: motif:2
label: divine judgment of unbelievers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage describes hell prepared for unbelievers, their vain works, and
punishment for disbelief and derision.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is a direct thematic classification from the passage rather than
a cross-textual comparison.
- id: motif:3
label: resurrection gathering with trumpet
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage describes a trumpet sounding and a collective gathering, and
commentary connects the tumult with resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The main text emphasizes gathering; the commentary explicitly supplies
the resurrection interpretation.
- id: motif:4
label: everlasting paradise for righteous believers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Believers who do good works are assigned the gardens of paradise as an eternal
abode.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: No detailed journey to the afterlife is described in this passage.
- id: motif:5
label: inexhaustible divine wisdom or speech
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The sea used as ink, even with another sea added, would be exhausted before
the Lord's words were exhausted.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is thematic; the passage speaks specifically of
divine words rather than a narrative wisdom quest.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 23810-23812
quote_or_summary: '"when this wall was finished, Gog and Magog could not scale it,
neither could they dig through it"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short excerpt used for extraction evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 23813-23816
quote_or_summary: Dhu'lkarnein says the wall is a mercy from his Lord, but that
when the Lord's prediction is fulfilled, the wall will be reduced to dust.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 23817-23821
quote_or_summary: On that day some press like waves on others; the trumpet is sounded;
they are gathered together; hell is set before unbelievers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 23822-23837
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers are described as veiled from remembrance, taking protectors
besides God, having vain works, disbelieving in signs and assembly before the
Lord, and receiving hell as reward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 23838-23841
quote_or_summary: Those who believe and do good works receive the gardens of paradise
as their abode and remain there forever.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 23842-23845
quote_or_summary: If the sea were ink for the Lord's words, the sea would fail before
the words failed, even with another sea added.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 23846-23849
quote_or_summary: The speaker says he is only a man, that it is revealed to him
that God is one, and that whoever hopes to meet the Lord should work righteousness
and not join anyone in worship with the Lord.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 23851-23862, note c
quote_or_summary: 'The commentators describe the wall''s construction: digging until
water is found, laying stone and melted brass, building with iron, wood and coals,
heating with fire and bellows, and pouring melted brass; another version uses
stones fastened by iron and brass.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized commentary evidence.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 23863-23865, note d
quote_or_summary: The note explains the prediction as the time when Gog and Magog
will break forth from confinement sometime before resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized commentary evidence.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 23866-23866 and following note e
quote_or_summary: The note says the wave-like tumult may represent either the violent
irruption of Gog and Magog or the assembly of all creatures at resurrection.
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 strong for the wall, eschatological judgment, and paradise
scenes. Motif labels are limited to the supplied passage and available taxonomy.
No external comparison claims were made.
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 notes within the supplied passage were treated as evidence distinct from the main translated text.
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