batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l26677-l26755
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l26677-l26755
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 26677-26755
start: '26677'
end: '26755'
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 commands obedience to God and the apostle, promises succession
and security to believers who do good works, warns unbelievers of hell fire, gives
rules about asking permission before entering private spaces at set times, addresses
older women’s dress, and permits eating in various relatives’ and friends’ houses,
including with the blind, lame, and sick. Translator notes explain some occasions
and social scruples related to these rulings.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The audience is told to obey God and the apostle; if they obey the apostle,
they will be directed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The apostle’s duty is described as public preaching.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: God promises believers who do good works that they will succeed unbelievers
in the earth, have their religion established, and have fear changed into security.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The promised group is required to worship God and not associate any other
with God.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Unbelievers are said not to frustrate God’s designs on earth, and their hereafter
abode is hell fire.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Slaves and those who have not reached puberty are instructed to ask leave
before entering the believers’ presence at three times of day.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The three stated private times are before morning prayer, at noon when garments
are laid aside, and after evening prayer.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Children who reach puberty are instructed to ask leave at all times, like
adults before them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Women past child-bearing who do not hope to marry again are allowed to lay
aside outer garments if they do not show ornaments, though abstaining is said
to be better.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The blind, lame, sick, and the addressed believers are permitted to eat in
their own houses and in houses of listed relatives, friends, or houses whose keys
they possess.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Eating together or separately is declared not to be a crime.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Translator notes say the privacy rule was associated by some with sudden entries
into private rooms at improper times.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: Translator notes say the eating rule addressed scruples or superstitions about
eating with maimed or sick people, eating in another’s house, or eating with friends.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Speaker-authority who commands, promises, declares signs, knows and
hears, and whose designs cannot be frustrated.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the apostle
description: Messenger whose duty is public preaching and whom the audience is instructed
to obey.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: true believers / those who believe and do good works
description: Addressed group promised succession and security and given rules for
prayer, alms, obedience, privacy, dress, and eating.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: unbelievers
description: Group contrasted with believers; they are said not to frustrate God’s
designs, and their hereafter abode is hell fire.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: slaves and those not yet at puberty
description: Household dependents instructed to ask leave before entering at three
private times.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: children who attain puberty
description: Children who reach puberty and must ask leave to enter at all times.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: women past child-bearing
description: Older women who do not hope to marry again and are addressed regarding
outer garments and ornaments.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: the blind, lame, and sick
description: Persons explicitly included in permission to eat in the listed houses.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: relatives, friends, and key-holders
description: Persons and household relations named in the eating permissions, including
fathers, mothers, siblings, uncles, aunts, friends, and those possessing keys.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lawgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God issues commands about obedience, worship, privacy, dress, and eating.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: divine promiser and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God promises believers succession and security and warns that unbelievers’
abode is hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: messenger-preacher
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The apostle is to be obeyed, and his duty is only public preaching.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: obedient community
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Believers are addressed as recipients of promises and legal instructions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: disbelieving opponents
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Unbelievers are contrasted with believers and assigned hell fire as their
hereafter abode.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: household entrants requiring permission at set times
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Slaves and prepubescent persons must ask leave at three private times.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: mature entrants requiring continual permission
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Children who attain puberty must ask leave at all times.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: older women addressed by dress rule
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Women past child-bearing are permitted to lay aside outer garments under
a stated condition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: included table companions
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The blind, lame, and sick are included in the eating permissions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:10
label: permitted household hosts or relations
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The passage lists houses of relatives, friends, and houses whose keys are
possessed as places where eating is permitted.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: hell fire
literal_form: fire
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: three private times
literal_form: 'three daily entry-restricted times: before morning prayer, noon garment-laying,
and after evening prayer'
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: outer garments and ornaments
literal_form: outer garments and ornaments
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: keys of houses
literal_form: keys possessed for houses
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Command to obey and promise to believers
summary: The passage commands obedience to God and the apostle and states that believers
who do good works will receive succession in the earth, religious establishment,
and security, while being required to worship God alone.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Warning concerning unbelievers
summary: Unbelievers are told they cannot frustrate God’s designs on earth, and
their hereafter abode is described as hell fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Household privacy rules
summary: Slaves and prepubescent persons must ask leave before entering at three
private times, and children who reach puberty must ask leave at all times.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Older women’s garment rule
summary: Older women past child-bearing who do not expect marriage are allowed to
lay aside outer garments without showing ornaments, while abstaining is described
as better.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Eating permissions and removal of scruples
summary: The passage permits eating in one’s own house and in listed relatives’
or friends’ houses, including houses whose keys one possesses, and permits eating
together or separately. Translator notes connect this to scruples about eating
with sick or maimed people and in others’ houses.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment by hell fire
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that unbelievers will not frustrate God’s designs and
that their hereafter abode will be hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a legal-theological warning rather than a developed
narrative judgment scene.
- id: motif:2
label: conditional divine promise of communal succession and security
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: God promises believers who do good works succession in the earth, established
religion, and transformation of fear into security, along with exclusive worship
of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage uses promise and obligation language; it does not explicitly
call this a covenant in the provided text.
- id: motif:3
label: sacred regulation of household thresholds
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Entry into private presence is regulated by permission at three daily times
and, for those reaching puberty, at all times.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: This is primarily a legal-social pattern; no named mythic threshold figure
appears.
- id: motif:4
label: removal of purity or commensality scruples
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage permits eating with or in the houses of listed persons, and translator
notes say the rule addressed scruples or superstitions about eating with maimed
or sick people and with others.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is inferred from the legal permission and translator note, not
from a narrative episode.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The translator’s note explicitly compares the promised succession of believers
to the Israelites dispossessing the Canaanites.
claim_level: same_function
target: Israelites succeeding or dispossessing the Canaanites in the translator’s
note
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This comparison comes from Sale’s explanatory note rather than the
translated Qur'anic wording itself, and it should not be treated as proof of historical
contact from this passage alone.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 26677-26681
quote_or_summary: The audience is told to obey God and the apostle; if they obey,
they will be directed, and the apostle’s duty is public preaching.
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 26682-26689
quote_or_summary: God promises believers who do good works succession in the earth,
establishment of their religion, security after fear, and requires worship without
association of others.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 26693-26695
quote_or_summary: "“their abode hereafter shall be hell fire; a miserable journey
shall it be thither”"
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 26696-26704
quote_or_summary: 'Slaves and prepubescent persons must ask leave before entering
at three private times: before morning prayer, noon garment-laying, and after
evening prayer.'
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 26705-26708
quote_or_summary: Children who attain puberty must ask leave at all times, as older
persons do.
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 26709-26713
quote_or_summary: Women past child-bearing who do not hope to marry again may lay
aside outer garments without showing ornaments, though abstaining is better.
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 26714-26725
quote_or_summary: The blind, lame, sick, and the addressed believers may eat in
their own houses, relatives’ houses, houses whose keys they possess, or friends’
houses, and may eat together or separately.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: translator note h, lines 26727-26739
quote_or_summary: The note says the permission-to-enter passage was linked by reports
to sudden entry by a servant or boy into a private room at an improper time.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: translator note m, lines 26745-26753
quote_or_summary: The note says the eating permission removed Arab scruples about
eating with maimed or sick people, eating in others’ houses, or eating with friends.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: translator note g, lines 26726-26726
quote_or_summary: The note glosses succession as analogous to God causing the Israelites
to dispossess the Canaanites and others.
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: medium
notes: Extraction relies only on the supplied passage and Sale’s notes. Motif assignments
are cautious because much of the passage is legal instruction rather than mythic
narrative.
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 or taxonomy IDs beyond those supplied were used.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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