batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l26498-l26587
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l26498-l26587
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST
MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26498-26587
start: '26498'
end: '26587'
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 commentary on modesty rules, permitted exceptions,
slaves, servants, and ankle ornaments; then Qur'anic verses describing revealed
signs, God as the light of heaven and earth through the parable of a niche, lamp,
glass, and blessed olive tree; houses where God is praised; the pious who are
not diverted by trade; divine recompense; and unbelievers whose deeds are compared
to a mirage that disappoints the thirsty traveler before divine accounting.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Commentary explains that women are to cover bodily adornment, including heads,
necks, and breasts, except before specified persons and under certain circumstances.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The commentary discusses categories of relatives, women, slaves, servants,
and persons without sexual desire as exceptions to rules about seeing women unveiled.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A commentary anecdote says Mohammed brought a male slave to his daughter Fatima
while she was concerned about inadequate covering, and he reassured her that only
her father and slave were present.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A note explains that ankle rings may make a sound when shaken, and compares
this to a reproach in Isaiah against women making a tinkling with foot ornaments.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The passage states that evident signs, a history like histories of earlier
people, and an admonition to the pious have been revealed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: God is described as the light of heaven and earth through a similitude involving
a niche, a lamp, glass like a shining star, and oil from a blessed olive tree.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The oil of the blessed tree is described as nearly giving light even without
being touched by fire.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Men praise God morning and evening in houses permitted by God to be raised
and to commemorate his name.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: The praising men are not diverted by merchandising or selling from remembering
God, prayer, and almsgiving.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The pious fear a day when hearts and eyes will be troubled, and God will recompense
deeds and add reward from his abundance.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: The works of unbelievers are compared to vapor in a plain that a thirsty traveler
thinks is water but finds to be nothing.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: After the mirage-like disappointment, the unbeliever finds God with him, and
God fully pays his account swiftly.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine speaker/source of signs; described as the light of heaven
and earth, director to his light, giver of recompense, and swift in taking account.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Pious men
description: Men who praise God morning and evening, remember God, observe prayer,
give alms, and fear the day of troubled hearts and eyes.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Unbelievers
description: Those whose works are compared to vapor in a plain and who encounter
divine accounting.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Thirsty traveler
description: A traveler in the simile who mistakes vapor in a plain for water and
finds nothing when he reaches it.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Women subject to modesty rules
description: Women discussed in commentary as covering adornment and parts of the
body except before specified persons.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: In a commentary anecdote, he gives a male slave to his daughter Fatima
and reassures her about his presence.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Fatima
description: Mohammed's daughter in the commentary anecdote, described as confused
because her garment was too scanty to cover both head and feet.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Male slave
description: A man-slave given by Mohammed to Fatima in the commentary anecdote.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine light-giver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is called the light of heaven and earth and directs whom he pleases to
his light.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: divine judge and rewarder
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God recompenses deeds, adds reward, and swiftly takes account.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: steadfast worshippers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They praise, remember God, pray, give alms, and are not diverted by trade.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: subjects of negative simile and accounting
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Their works are compared to vapor mistaken for water, and they are fully
paid their account.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: mistaken seeker of water
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The thirsty traveler thinks the vapor is water and finds nothing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: regulated modesty subjects
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Commentary details covering, adornment, and exceptions for who may see them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:7
label: prophetic authority in anecdote
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The anecdote reports Mohammed giving a slave and explaining why Fatima need
not be concerned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:8
label: modesty-anxious daughter
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Fatima is described as confused because her garment left either head or feet
uncovered.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:9
label: household slave exception
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The male slave's presence is treated as not requiring Fatima's concern in
the anecdote.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: divine light
literal_form: Light of heaven and earth; light added unto light
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: niche-lamp image
literal_form: A niche in a wall containing a lamp enclosed in glass
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: glass like shining star
literal_form: Glass enclosing the lamp, appearing like a shining star
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: blessed olive tree
literal_form: An olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil lights
the lamp
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: fire not touching oil
literal_form: Fire that has not touched the oil, though the oil nearly gives light
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: houses of praise
literal_form: Houses permitted by God to be raised and where his name is commemorated
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: mirage-like vapor
literal_form: Vapor in a plain that appears to the thirsty traveler as water
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: ankle rings
literal_form: Gold or silver rings worn about women's ankles and shaken to make
sound
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Commentary on modesty and permitted viewers
summary: The commentary explains bodily covering, adornment, and categories of persons
before whom women may be seen, including relatives, women, slaves, servants, and
those without desire.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Fatima and the household slave
summary: A commentary anecdote reports Mohammed bringing a male slave to Fatima
while she is concerned about insufficient covering, and reassuring her that only
her father and slave are present.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Parable of divine light
summary: God is compared to light through the image of a niche, lamp, glass like
a shining star, and oil from a blessed olive tree that nearly shines without fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Pious worshippers in houses of praise
summary: Men in houses raised for God's name praise him morning and evening, and
trade does not distract them from remembrance, prayer, and alms.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Reward and divine accounting
summary: The pious fear a troubling day and receive recompense, while unbelievers'
works are likened to a mirage that fails the thirsty traveler before God pays
the account.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine light as revelatory guidance
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage presents God as light, says God directs whom he pleases to his
light, and frames the image as a parable for human instruction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage itself uses parable and light
imagery rather than an explicit abstract category name.
- id: motif:2
label: sacred tree as source of luminous oil
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_tree_axis
basis: The blessed olive tree supplies oil for the lamp in the divine-light parable
and is specified as neither eastern nor western.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The tree is sacred/luminous in a parable, but the passage does not depict
it as a world axis.
- id: motif:3
label: pious devotion undistracted by commerce
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The worshippers are described as continuing remembrance, prayer, and almsgiving
despite merchandising and selling.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: This is an ethical-religious pattern rather than a narrative myth motif.
- id: motif:4
label: divine recompense and accounting
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage speaks of a troubling day, recompense according to deeds, added
reward, and swift divine accounting.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes accounting and recompense more than a detailed
judgment scene.
- id: motif:5
label: false appearance of life-giving water
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The works of unbelievers are compared to vapor that a thirsty traveler thinks
is water but finds to be nothing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy lacks a direct mirage/illusion motif; duality is
used only for the contrast between appearance and reality.
- id: motif:6
label: moral admonition through histories of earlier people
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage says revealed signs include a history like some histories of
those who have gone before and an admonition to the pious.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The earlier histories are not narrated in this excerpt.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself compares its revealed history to histories of earlier
people, indicating an admonitory continuity with prior exempla.
claim_level: same_function
target: histories of those who have gone before
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The earlier histories are not identified in this passage, so no specific
textual or historical relationship can be asserted.
- id: claim:2
claim: The commentary compares women's tinkling ankle ornaments with a reproach
in Isaiah against similar foot ornaments.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: Isaiah iii.16 and 18, as cited in the commentary
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is Sale's explanatory cross-reference in commentary, not a comparison
made in the Qur'anic verse itself.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 26498-26535
quote_or_summary: Commentary on covering women's adornment and body parts; exceptions
include husbands, near relations, women, slaves, and persons without desire, with
juristic disagreements noted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 26521-26529
quote_or_summary: 'Commentary anecdote: Mohammed gives a man-slave to Fatima; she
is distressed by a scanty garment, and Mohammed says she need not be concerned
because only her father and slave are present.'
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 26536-26540
quote_or_summary: Commentary explains ankle rings shaken by eastern women and notes
that Isaiah reproved Jewish ladies for making a tinkling with foot ornaments.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 26563-26565
quote_or_summary: '"we revealed unto you evident signs, and a history like unto
some of the histories of those who have gone before you..."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 26566-26573
quote_or_summary: God is the light of heaven and earth; his light is likened to
a niche containing a lamp in glass like a shining star, lit by oil from a blessed
olive tree neither east nor west, whose oil nearly shines without fire; light
is added unto light.
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 26574-26579
quote_or_summary: In houses raised by God's permission and commemorating his name,
men praise him morning and evening; trade does not divert them from remembrance,
prayer, and alms.
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 26579-26583
quote_or_summary: The worshippers fear a day when hearts and eyes are troubled;
God recompenses them according to their deeds and adds abundant reward.
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 26584-26587
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers' works are compared to vapor in a plain that a thirsty
traveler thinks is water; he finds nothing there, but finds God, who pays his
account swiftly.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Line locators are approximate within the supplied range because only the
passage block, not numbered lines, was provided. The extraction distinguishes
Qur'anic text from Sale's commentary but includes both because both appear in
the supplied passage.
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 supplied passage text and metadata were used. Taxonomy references are limited to the provided lists.
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