batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l25408-l25434
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l25408-l25434
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25408-25434
start: '25408'
end: '25434'
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: 'Commentary notes explain an eschatological passage: the resurrection is
preceded by the eruption of Gog and Magog; a variant reading may refer either
to elevated ground or to graves; the condemned suffer torment or hear no comfort;
a general statement about worshippers and worshipped beings being cast into hell
is qualified by exceptions such as Jesus, Ezra, and angels; Sijil is interpreted
either as a recorder of deeds or as a written scroll rolled up; one phrase is
said to be taken from Psalm 37:29; later threat may refer to Muslim successes
or the day of judgment.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The note identifies the resurrection as the endpoint and says one sign of
its approach will be the eruption of Gog and Magog, described as barbarians.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: 'A textual variant is reported: one reading means an elevated part of the
earth, while another means a grave; the variant changes whether the pronoun refers
to Gog and Magog or to mankind generally.'
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The condemned are described as suffering astonishment and insupportable torments,
or as hearing nothing that could comfort them.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The commentary reports an objection to a general statement that both worshippers
and what they worship besides God will be cast into hell.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Jesus, Ezra, and the angels are named as worshipped beings who are described
as being in God's favor and excepted from damnation.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Sijil is described in one interpretation as having the office of writing down
every person's actions and rolling up the record at death.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Another interpretation treats Sijil or Sijjill as a common noun meaning a
book or written scroll.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The commentary says some words in the passage are taken from Psalm 37:29.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: A threatened event is interpreted either as losses and disgraces suffered
through future Muslim successes or as the day of judgment.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Gog and Magog
description: A group associated with the eruption of barbarians near the resurrection.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: mankind in general
description: The possible referent of a pronoun if the variant reading meaning 'grave'
is followed.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: God
description: The deity besides whom others are worshipped; Jesus, Ezra, and the
angels are said to be in God's favor.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Jesus
description: Named as an object of idolatrous worship who is nevertheless in God's
favor and excepted from damnation.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Ezra
description: Named as an object of idolatrous worship who is nevertheless in God's
favor and excepted from damnation.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: angels
description: Named as objects of idolatrous worship who are nevertheless in God's
favor and excepted from damnation.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Sijil or Sijjill
description: Interpreted either as a recorder who writes down each person's deeds
and rolls up the record at death, or as a book or written scroll.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: one of Mohammed's scribes
description: A figure whom some interpreters identify with Sijil.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Moslems
description: A group whose future successes are offered as one explanation of losses
and disgraces suffered by the addressed people.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: apocalyptic forerunners
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Their eruption is named as a sign of the approach of the resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: favored exceptions from damnation
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: They are named as worshipped beings who are in God's favor and excepted from
danger of damnation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: divine authority
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage frames worship besides God and God's favor as decisive for salvation
or damnation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: recorder of deeds or written record
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Sijil is interpreted as one who writes down every person's life actions and
rolls them up at death, or as the scroll itself.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: future victors in one interpretation
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Future successes of the Moslems are given as one possible explanation of
the threatened losses and disgraces.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: written scroll or book
literal_form: book or written scroll rolled up
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: hell
literal_form: place into which worshippers and worshipped objects may be cast
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: grave or elevated earth
literal_form: 'variant reading: elevated part of earth or grave'
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: record of actions
literal_form: written record of every person's life actions, completed and rolled
up at death
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Approach of resurrection signaled by Gog and Magog
summary: 'The resurrection is described as approaching after a sign: the eruption
of Gog and Magog.'
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Textual variant about emergence from heights or graves
summary: A variant reading changes the image from an elevated part of earth to a
grave and changes the possible referent from Gog and Magog to mankind generally.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Condemnation, hell, and exceptions
summary: The condemned face torment or lack of comfort; a broad statement about
casting worshippers and worshipped beings into hell is qualified by exceptions
for figures favored by God.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Record of life actions rolled up at death
summary: Sijil is interpreted as recording each person's actions and rolling up
the completed account at death, or alternatively as the written scroll itself.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Threatened losses or day of judgment
summary: A threat is interpreted either as future losses caused by Muslim successes
or as the day of judgment.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: resurrection and end-time signs
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage explicitly mentions the resurrection and the eruption of Gog
and Magog as a sign of its approach.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is commentary rather than the base scripture text.
- id: motif:2
label: divine judgment with hell and torment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage discusses being cast into hell, torment or lack of comfort, exceptions
from damnation, and the day of judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: Some details are presented as alternative interpretations by commentators.
- id: motif:3
label: recorded deeds sealed at death
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Sijil is said to write down every person's actions and roll up the completed
record at death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The same note also reports an alternative interpretation in which Sijil
is simply a book or written scroll.
- id: motif:4
label: apocalyptic eruption of hostile peoples
taxonomy_refs:
- chaos
basis: Gog and Magog are associated with an eruption of barbarians that marks the
approach of the resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy lacks a specific Gog-and-Magog or apocalyptic-nations
category; 'chaos' is only an approximate family reference.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The commentary explicitly states that words in the passage are taken from
Psalm 37:29.
claim_level: linguistic_similarity
target: Psalm xxxvii. v. 29
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The note asserts a source relationship but the provided passage does
not quote the Psalm wording for direct comparison.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 25408-25409
quote_or_summary: The note says the relevant time is until the resurrection and
that one sign of its approach will be the eruption of those barbarians.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 25410-25414
quote_or_summary: 'A variant reading is described: hadabin means an elevated part
of the earth, while jadathin means a grave; under the latter reading the pronoun
refers to mankind generally rather than Gog and Magog.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 25415-25417
quote_or_summary: The note explains the condition of the condemned as astonishment
and insupportable torments, or as hearing nothing comforting.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 25418-25424
quote_or_summary: An objection is reported to a general statement that worshippers
and what they worship besides God will be cast into hell; Jesus, Ezra, and the
angels are cited as worshipped beings in God's favor, and the passage is said
to except those predestined to salvation.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 25425-25429
quote_or_summary: Sijil is described as writing down each person's actions and rolling
them up at death; other interpretations identify Sijil with one of Mohammed's
scribes or with a book/written scroll.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: '25430'
quote_or_summary: '"These words are taken from Psalm xxxvii. v. 29."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: '25431'
quote_or_summary: A phrase is glossed as public declaration of what was commanded.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 25432-25433
quote_or_summary: A threatened matter is glossed as either losses and disgraces
due to future Muslim successes or as the day of judgment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary used.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage consists of translator/commentator notes with several alternative
interpretations; extraction is limited to the supplied notes.
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 beyond the supplied passage and metadata.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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