batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l26176-l26233
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l26176-l26233
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE
BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26176-26233
start: '26176'
end: '26233'
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 barzakh as an interval, partition,
grave, or obstacle between death and resurrection, followed by Qur'anic speech
in which God rejects condemned persons, contrasts them with patient believing
servants, questions the condemned about the shortness of their earthly life, affirms
return before God, warns against invoking another god, and closes with a prayer
for pardon and mercy.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A translator's note explains barzakh as a partition, interstice, place or
state of the dead, interval between this world and the next, or obstacle preventing
return after death.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God commands condemned persons to be driven away with ignominy and not to
speak to him for deliverance.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A party of God's servants are described as praying for forgiveness and mercy
because they believe.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The condemned addressees are said to have mocked the believing servants and
laughed them to scorn.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: God states that the patient believers have been rewarded and enjoy great felicity.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: God asks how many years the condemned remained on earth; they answer that
it was a day or part of a day and refer the question to those who keep account.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: God says that their earthly stay was brief and asks whether they thought they
were created in sport and would not be brought before him again.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The passage states that anyone invoking another god with the true God will
be brought to account before the Lord.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The passage closes with an address to the Lord asking for pardon and mercy.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / LORD
description: The speaker who judges, questions, rewards, warns, and is addressed
as merciful, King, Truth, and Lord of the honourable throne.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Condemned addressees / infidels
description: Persons driven away, told not to ask for deliverance, accused of mocking
believers, and warned that infidels shall not prosper.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Believing servants
description: A party of God's servants who pray for forgiveness and mercy, endure
injury with patience, and are rewarded with felicity.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Those who keep account
description: Unnamed account-keepers to whom the condemned refer when asked how
long they remained on earth.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Another god
description: An invoked deity mentioned as lacking demonstrative proof when invoked
together with the true God.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God drives away the condemned, questions them, and says that those invoking
another god will be brought to account.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:2
label: merciful lord
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Believers and the closing prayer ask the Lord for forgiveness and mercy,
calling him the best of those who show mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: role:3
label: mocking condemned group
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They are addressed as driven away, accused of receiving believers with scoffs,
and associated with infidels who do not prosper.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: patient rewarded believers
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They believe, ask for mercy, suffer injuries with patience, and are rewarded
with felicity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: keepers of account
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: They are named by the condemned as those to ask about the length of earthly
time.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: unproven rival object of invocation
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage mentions another god invoked with the true God and lacking demonstrative
proof.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: barzakh partition
literal_form: Partition, interstice, interval, grave, or obstacle between death
and resurrection, as explained in the translator's note.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: honourable throne
literal_form: The honourable throne associated with God as Lord.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:3
label: account
literal_form: The act or record of being brought to account before the Lord, with
unnamed keepers of account also mentioned.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Explanation of barzakh
summary: A note explains barzakh as a partition or interval connected with the dead,
the grave, and the period between death and resurrection, including an obstacle
to return to the world.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Condemned persons rejected
summary: God orders condemned persons to be driven away in ignominy and not to ask
him for deliverance.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Believers mocked and rewarded
summary: Believing servants who prayed for mercy were mocked by the condemned, but
God says they are rewarded for patient endurance and enjoy felicity.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Question about earthly duration
summary: God asks the condemned how long they remained on earth; they answer that
it was a day or part of a day and refer to account-keepers, after which God says
they stayed only briefly.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Return before God and final warning
summary: The passage denies that creation was in sport, affirms being brought again
before God, exalts God as King and Lord of the throne, warns against invoking
another god, and ends with a prayer for pardon and mercy.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment of the condemned
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: God rejects the condemned, questions them, warns that invocation of another
god will be brought to account, and says infidels shall not prosper.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is doctrinal and admonitory rather than an extended narrative
trial scene.
- id: motif:2
label: resurrection or return before God
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: God asks whether the addressees thought they would not be brought again before
him; the note also discusses the interval between death and resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The mechanics of resurrection are not described in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: intermediate state after death
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The note defines barzakh as a partition or interval between this world and
the next, between death and resurrection, and as an obstacle to return after death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: This is supplied in a translator's explanatory note and is not presented
here as a journey map with stages.
- id: motif:4
label: patient righteous vindicated after persecution
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Believing servants are mocked and injured, then rewarded by God because they
endured with patience.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: No specific individual martyr or persecution narrative is elaborated.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The translator's note cautiously compares barzakh with the Greek term Hades
in function, describing both as connected with the place, time, or state of the
dead.
claim_level: same_function
target: Greek Hades
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is made in Sale's note rather than in the Qur'anic speech
itself, and the note says the Arabic usage is not always the same and can be obscure.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 26176-26201, note h
quote_or_summary: Sale's note explains barzakh as a partition or interstice and
says it can refer to the place, time, or state of the dead, the interval between
this world and the next or between death and resurrection, the grave, or an obstacle
preventing return after death; it also compares the term to Greek Hades.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 26209-26210
quote_or_summary: "“Be ye driven away with ignominy thereinto: and speak not unto
me to deliver you.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 26211-26213
quote_or_summary: "“O LORD, we believe: wherefore forgive us, and be merciful unto
us”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 26214-26216
quote_or_summary: God says the addressees received the believing servants with scoffs
and laughed them to scorn.
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 26217-26218
quote_or_summary: God says he has rewarded the believers because they suffered injuries
with patience and that they enjoy great felicity.
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 26219-26222
quote_or_summary: God asks how many years they continued on earth; they answer that
it was a day or part of a day and say to ask those who keep account.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 26223-26225
quote_or_summary: "“Did ye think that we had created you in sport, and that ye should
not be brought again before us?”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 26225-26230
quote_or_summary: The passage exalts God as King, Truth, and Lord of the honourable
throne, and says that whoever invokes another god without proof will be brought
to account before his Lord; infidels shall not prosper.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 26231-26232
quote_or_summary: "“O LORD, pardon, and show mercy; for thou art the best of those
who show mercy.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction relies on the supplied line range, including both Qur'anic translated
text and Sale's explanatory notes. Motif labels are limited to available taxonomy
references where directly supported.
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 figures, symbols, or comparisons beyond those supported by the supplied passage and metadata have been added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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