batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l28542-l28629
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l28542-l28629
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIX. /
IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28542-28629
start: '28542'
end: '28629'
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 opens by saying that professed belief will be tested, distinguishes
sincere believers from liars and hypocrites, commands kindness to parents while
forbidding obedience in idolatry, promises paradise to the righteous, warns that
unbelievers cannot bear others' sins, recalls Noah's long mission and deliverance
in the ark during the deluge, presents Abraham's warning against idols, and affirms
divine creation, restoration, resurrection, punishment, mercy, and judgment.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: People who say they believe are said to be subject to proof or testing.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God is said to know the sincere, the liars, the true believers, and the hypocrites.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: obs:3
text: Man is commanded to show kindness toward parents, but not to obey them if
they try to lead him into associating something with God without knowledge.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The passage says that those who believe and work righteousness will be introduced
into paradise among the upright.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Some people claim belief but treat human persecution for God's sake as grievous
as God's punishment.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Unbelievers tell believers to follow their way and offer to bear their sins,
but the passage says they will not bear any part of those sins.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says people will bear their own burdens and other burdens besides,
and will be examined on the day of resurrection.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Noah is said to have been sent to his people and to have remained among them
one thousand years minus fifty years.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: A deluge takes away Noah's people while they are acting unjustly.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: Noah and those in the ark are delivered, and the ark is made a sign to all
creatures.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: Abraham tells his people to serve and fear God and says their idols cannot
provide for them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: The passage says God produces creatures, restores them, reproduces another
production, punishes and has mercy, and brings people before him at judgment.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine speaker and judge who tests, knows, rewards, punishes, has
mercy, creates, restores, and receives return.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Those who believe and work righteousness
description: People who believe, do righteous works, and are promised expiation,
reward, and paradise.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Liars and hypocrites
description: People distinguished by divine knowledge from the sincere and true
believers.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Unbelievers
description: Those who urge believers to follow their way and claim they will bear
believers' sins, but are called liars.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Noah
description: A prophet sent to his people, who remained among them for a long span
and was delivered with those in the ark.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Noah's people
description: The people to whom Noah was sent; the deluge takes them away while
they act unjustly.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Those in the ark
description: The group delivered together with Noah in the ark.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Abraham
description: A prophet sent to his people who calls them to serve and fear God and
reject idols.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Abraham's people
description: The people addressed by Abraham about serving God and abandoning idols.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: tester of belief
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to have proved earlier people and to know the sincere and the
liars.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: judge and recompensor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God rewards righteous deeds, punishes and has mercy, and brings people to
judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: creator and restorer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says God produces creatures and afterwards restores or reproduces
them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: righteous recipients of reward
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Believers who work righteousness receive expiation, reward, and paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: insincere claimants to belief
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage contrasts sincere believers with liars and hypocrites known to
God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: false bearers of others' sins
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Unbelievers offer to bear believers' sins, but the passage denies they will
bear any part of them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: sent prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:8
basis: Noah and Abraham are each introduced as being sent to their people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: deluge survivors
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:7
basis: Noah and those in the ark are delivered from the deluge.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: unjust deluge victims
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Noah's people are taken away by the deluge while acting unjustly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: anti-idolatry preacher
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Abraham tells his people to serve God, fear him, and not rely on idols.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:11
label: idol-worshiping audience
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Abraham addresses his people as worshiping idols besides God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: ark as delivered vessel and sign
literal_form: ark
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: deluge water
literal_form: deluge
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: burdens of sin
literal_form: burdens
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: idols unable to provide
literal_form: idols
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: paradise for the upright
literal_form: paradise
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Testing of professed belief
summary: The passage states that people who profess belief will be proved, as earlier
people were proved, so that sincerity, lying, true belief, and hypocrisy are known.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Loyalty to God over parental pressure
summary: The passage commands kindness to parents but rejects obedience if parents
urge association with God without knowledge, and it promises return to God and
paradise for the righteous.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: False offer to bear sins
summary: Unbelievers tell believers to follow their way and promise to bear their
sins, but the passage says they lie and will bear burdens at the resurrection.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Noah, deluge, and ark deliverance
summary: Noah is sent to his people, remains with them for a long span, and is delivered
with those in the ark when the deluge takes away unjust people; the ark is made
a sign.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Abraham's warning against idols
summary: Abraham tells his people to serve and fear God, says idols cannot provide
for them, and urges them to seek provision from God and return to him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Creation, restoration, and judgment
summary: The passage calls attention to God's original production of creatures,
later restoration or reproduction, divine punishment and mercy, and the final
bringing of people before God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: trial of believers to distinguish sincere from false
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
- divine_judgment
basis: Professed belief is not sufficient without being proved; God distinguishes
sincere believers from liars and hypocrites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage frames testing primarily as religious proof and judgment;
'initiation' is a broad comparative label and should be reviewed.
- id: motif:2
label: final return, resurrection, and judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage repeatedly states that people return to God, will be examined
on the day of resurrection, and will face punishment or mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No detailed afterlife journey map is provided in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: non-transferable sin burdens
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Unbelievers claim they will bear believers' sins, but the passage denies
this and says they will bear their own burdens and additional burdens at resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The exact nature of the 'other burdens' is not elaborated in the supplied
passage.
- id: motif:4
label: deluge destruction and ark deliverance
taxonomy_refs:
- flood_and_renewal
- ark_vessel
- divine_judgment
basis: Noah and those in the ark are delivered, while the deluge takes away unjust
people; the ark becomes a sign.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives only a compact allusion to the Noah narrative, without
extended flood details.
- id: motif:5
label: prophetic rejection of idols
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- covenant
basis: Abraham instructs his people to serve and fear God, rejects idols as powerless
to provide, and directs them to seek provision from God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The 'covenant' taxonomy link is inferential from exclusive service to
God and is not explicitly named in the passage.
- id: motif:6
label: creation followed by restoration
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- death_rebirth
basis: The passage points to God producing creatures, then restoring them and producing
another production.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage uses creation-restoration language in support of resurrection;
it does not narrate an individual death-and-rebirth episode.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: Chapter XXIX, opening verses; lines 28542-28557
quote_or_summary: People are asked whether saying 'We believe' is enough; earlier
people were proved, and God knows the sincere and the liars. Righteous believers
receive expiation and reward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text supplied in request.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: Chapter XXIX, opening section; lines 28558-28565
quote_or_summary: Man is commanded to show kindness to parents, but not to obey
them if they urge association with God without knowledge; all return to God, and
righteous believers are introduced into paradise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text supplied in request.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: Chapter XXIX, around verse 10; lines 28582-28588
quote_or_summary: Some claim belief but treat persecution as grievous as divine
punishment; God knows what is in creatures' breasts and knows true believers and
hypocrites.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text supplied in request.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: Chapter XXIX, after verse 10; lines 28589-28595
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers tell believers to follow their way and offer to bear
their sins; the passage calls them liars and says they will bear burdens and be
examined on the day of resurrection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text supplied in request.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: Chapter XXIX, Noah passage; lines 28596-28600
quote_or_summary: Noah is sent to his people and remains one thousand years minus
fifty; the deluge takes away the unjust, while Noah and those in the ark are delivered,
and the ark is made a sign.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text supplied in request.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: Chapter XXIX, Abraham passage; lines 28601-28610
quote_or_summary: Abraham is sent and tells his people to serve and fear God; he
says they worship idols and forge a lie, and that idols cannot provide for them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text supplied in request.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: Chapter XXIX, creation and judgment passage; lines 28611-28629
quote_or_summary: The passage says God produces creatures and restores or reproduces
them, punishes and has mercy as he pleases, brings people to judgment, and that
no one escapes in earth or heaven.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text supplied in request.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward for the supplied passage. Motif taxonomy
assignments are limited to the provided taxonomy and should be reviewed, especially
broader labels such as initiation, covenant, and death_rebirth. No comparison
claims were made because the passage itself does not develop an explicit comparative
argument.
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: |-
Extraction uses only the supplied passage text and metadata. Footnotes were treated as passage metadata/commentary only where they clarified wording, not as independent narrative scenes.
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