batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l29045-l29132
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l29045-l29132
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXX. / IN
THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 29045-29132
start: '29045'
end: '29132'
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 contrasts human rejoicing in mercy with despair or ingratitude
during hardship, commands charity and rejects usury, asserts God's creation, provision,
death-dealing, and resurrection power, describes corruption on land and sea as
a consequence of human deeds, warns of the separating day of judgment, presents
winds, clouds, rain, ships, and revived earth as signs of divine mercy, recalls
earlier apostles and divine vengeance against wrongdoers, states limits on making
the spiritually dead, deaf, or blind hear, describes human life stages from weakness
to strength to weakness and gray hair, and closes with resurrection-day dispute,
rejected excuses, parables, sealed hearts, and an exhortation to Mohammed to persevere.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: People rejoice when made to taste mercy, but despair when evil befalls them
because of what their hands have committed.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God bestows provision abundantly or sparingly as he pleases.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage commands giving due support to kin, the poor, and the stranger,
and contrasts usury or illicit gain with alms given for God's sake.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: God is said to create people, provide food, cause death, and then raise them
again to life; false gods are denied such power.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of crimes committed by human
hands, so that people might taste part of the fruits of their deeds and turn back.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker commands travel through the earth to observe the end of former
peoples, most of whom are described as idolaters.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Before the irrevocable day from God, the addressee is told to set his face
toward the right religion.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: 'On that day, people are separated into two companies: unbelievers bear their
unbelief, while those who did right prepare couches of repose in paradise.'
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: God sends winds as welcome tidings of rain, causes people to taste mercy,
enables ships to sail, and permits commerce from his abundance.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: God raises, spreads, and disperses clouds in heaven, and rain issues from
them, causing joy after prior despair.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: The quickening of the earth after its death is presented as a trace of God's
mercy and as evidence that the same power will raise the dead.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: If a blasting wind makes corn appear yellow and burnt up, people become ungrateful
after former favors.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:13
text: The addressee cannot make the dead hear, the deaf hear when they turn away,
or the blind leave their error; only those who believe in the signs are said to
hear.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:14
text: God creates people in weakness, grants strength after weakness, and then returns
them to weakness and gray hair after strength.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:15
text: At the last hour, the wicked swear they have tarried only about an hour, while
those given knowledge and faith state that the tarrying lasted until the day of
resurrection.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:16
text: On that day, excuses do not avail the unjust, and they are no longer invited
to make themselves acceptable to God.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:17
text: The Koran is said to contain parables of every kind, yet unbelievers dismiss
a brought verse as vain falsehoods.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:18
text: God seals the hearts of those who do not believe, and Mohammed is told to
persevere because God is true.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine agent who gives mercy and provision, creates, provides food,
causes death, raises to life, sends winds and rain, quickens earth, judges, seals
hearts, and is described as wise, powerful, and true.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Men / humankind
description: Human recipients of mercy and hardship who may rejoice, despair, commit
crimes, receive parables, and be judged.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Kin, poor, and stranger
description: Groups to whom due support or charity is to be given.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: False gods
description: Beings associated with God by others, denied the ability to create,
provide, cause death, or raise to life.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Unbelievers, wicked, idolaters, and unjust
description: Groups described as idolaters, wrongdoers, rejecters of verses, bearers
of unbelief, liars at the last hour, and persons whose excuses will not avail.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Believers and those who work righteousness
description: Those who believe in signs, are resigned to God, do right, and are
rewarded with repose in paradise.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Apostles before Mohammed
description: Earlier messengers sent to their respective peoples with evident proofs.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: The addressed messenger told that he cannot make the dead, deaf, or
blind hear, and commanded to persevere with constancy.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:11
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Those given knowledge and faith
description: A group who speak on the day of resurrection, correcting the wicked
about their tarrying according to the book of God.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: creator, provider, death-dealer, and raiser
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to create, provide food, cause death, and raise people again
to life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: judge and rewarder
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage describes an irrevocable day from God on which people are separated
and believers are rewarded.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: sender of winds, rain, and signs of mercy
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God sends winds, clouds, and rain, and quickens the earth after death as
a trace of mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: morally accountable humans
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Human suffering, corruption, and judgment are linked to what human hands
have committed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: recipients of due charity
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage commands giving due support to kin, poor, and stranger.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: powerless associated deities
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: False gods are explicitly denied the ability to perform creation, provision,
death, or resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: rejecters and wrongdoers
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: These groups are described as idolaters, unbelievers, wicked, unjust, and
dismissers of verses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:8
label: righteous recipients of reward
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Those who believe and do right are said to prepare couches of repose in paradise
and receive reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: messengers with proofs
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Earlier apostles are said to have been sent to peoples and to have come with
evident proofs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:10
label: exhorted prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Mohammed is directly told to persevere and not waver.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:11
label: knowledgeable witnesses at resurrection
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Those given knowledge and faith state the truth about tarrying until the
day of resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: land and sea
literal_form: Land and sea where corruption appears.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: winds
literal_form: Winds sent with welcome tidings of rain; also a blasting wind that
damages corn.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: rain
literal_form: Rain issuing from clouds and poured down on servants, bringing joy
after despair.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: clouds in heaven
literal_form: Clouds raised, spread, dispersed, and made to release rain.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: ships
literal_form: Ships that sail at God's command for commerce.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: earth quickened after death
literal_form: The earth after a state of death being revived by God's mercy.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: couches of repose in paradise
literal_form: Couches prepared by the righteous in paradise.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: sealed hearts
literal_form: Hearts of unbelievers sealed by God.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:9
label: weakness, strength, and gray hairs
literal_form: Human life stages from weakness to strength to weakness and gray hair.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:10
label: dead, deaf, and blind
literal_form: The dead, the deaf who turn away, and the blind in error as persons
who cannot be made to hear or be directed except by belief in signs.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Mercy, hardship, provision, and ethical giving
summary: People react to mercy and hardship; God apportions provision; the passage
commands support for kin, poor, and stranger, rejects usury or illicit increase,
and praises alms for God's sake.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Divine power over creation, death, and resurrection
summary: God is described as creator, provider, death-dealer, and raiser to life,
while false gods are denied any share in this power.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Corruption on land and sea and warning from former peoples
summary: Corruption appears on land and sea because of human crimes, and the addressee
is told to travel through the earth to see the fate of earlier idolaters.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Separation and recompense on the day of judgment
summary: Before the irrevocable day, the addressee is told to face the right religion;
on that day unbelievers and righteous believers are separated, with paradise and
reward for the righteous.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Winds, rain, ships, and reviving earth
summary: God sends winds and clouds that bring rain, joy, ship travel, and commerce;
the revival of dead earth is presented as a sign that God will raise the dead.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Blasting wind and ingratitude
summary: A destructive wind makes corn yellow and burnt up, after which people become
ungrateful despite former favors.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:7
label: Earlier apostles and divine vengeance
summary: Apostles were sent with proofs to earlier peoples; vengeance was taken
on wicked persons and assistance was given to true believers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: scene:8
label: Limits of making the unresponsive hear
summary: The addressee is told he cannot make the dead, deaf, or blind hear or be
directed; only those who believe in signs and are resigned can hear.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:9
label: Human life stages and the last hour
summary: God moves humans from weakness to strength and back to weakness and gray
hair; at the last hour the wicked understate their tarrying, while those with
knowledge and faith identify the day of resurrection.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:10
label: Parables, rejection, sealed hearts, and perseverance
summary: The Koran is said to contain many parables, but unbelievers reject a verse
as falsehood; God seals their hearts, and Mohammed is told to persevere.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Resurrection after death
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage repeatedly states that God will raise people after death and
links the revival of dead earth to the raising of the dead.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The extraction is limited to this translated passage and does not add
doctrinal context outside it.
- id: motif:2
label: Divine judgment and separation of the righteous and unbelieving
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: An unavoidable day from God separates people into companies, assigns unbelief
to unbelievers, rewards believers, and renders the unjust unable to rely on excuses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The passage supplies judgment imagery but not a detailed map of afterlife
stages.
- id: motif:3
label: Rain revives dead earth as a sign of renewed life
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
- seasonal_cycle
- resurrection
basis: Winds, clouds, and rain revive the earth after its death, and this natural
renewal is explicitly connected to raising the dead.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The seasonal or agricultural framing is inferred from rain, earth, and
damaged corn, while the passage itself emphasizes divine mercy and resurrection.
- id: motif:4
label: Moral recompense in this world and the next
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Hardship and corruption are tied to human deeds, wicked peoples receive vengeance,
and final judgment assigns reward or loss.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage includes both temporal calamity and eschatological judgment;
the precise mechanism of recompense is not elaborated.
- id: motif:5
label: Prophetic warning rejected by unbelievers
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Earlier apostles came with proofs; the Koran gives parables, yet unbelievers
reject verses as falsehoods, and Mohammed is exhorted to persevere.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: No available taxonomy family directly names prophetic rejection; no broader
comparison is made.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 29045-29050
quote_or_summary: People taste mercy and rejoice, but despair when evil befalls
them for what their hands committed; God gives provision abundantly or sparingly.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 29051-29058
quote_or_summary: The passage commands giving kin, the poor, and the stranger their
due; usury or illicit gain is not increased by God's blessing, while alms for
God's sake receive a twofold reward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 29059-29063
quote_or_summary: God created, provides food, will cause death, and will raise people
again to life; false gods cannot do the least of these things.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 29064-29071
quote_or_summary: Corruption appears by land and sea for crimes committed by human
hands, so people might taste part of what they have wrought and turn back; the
addressee is told to travel through the earth and see the end of prior idolaters.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 29072-29082
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told to face the right religion before an irreversible
day from God; on that day people are separated, unbelievers bear unbelief, and
the righteous prepare repose in paradise and receive reward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 29083-29102
quote_or_summary: God sends winds with tidings of rain, ships sail at his command,
clouds are raised and spread, rain issues from them, people rejoice after despair,
and the revived earth after death shows that God will raise the dead.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 29103-29105
quote_or_summary: If a blasting wind made the corn yellow and burnt up, people would
become ungrateful after previous favors.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 29106-29116
quote_or_summary: The addressee cannot make the dead hear, the deaf hear when they
turn away, or the blind leave error; only believers in the signs, resigned to
God, will hear.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 29117-29120
quote_or_summary: God creates people in weakness, gives strength after weakness,
and after strength reduces them again to weakness and gray hairs; he is wise and
powerful.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 29121-29128
quote_or_summary: At the last hour, the wicked swear they tarried only an hour;
those with knowledge and faith say they tarried according to God's book until
the day of resurrection; excuses do not avail the unjust.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 29129-29132
quote_or_summary: The Koran contains parables of every kind, but unbelievers call
a brought verse vain falsehoods; God seals unbelieving hearts, and Mohammed is
told to persevere because God is true.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 29089-29092
quote_or_summary: Apostles were sent before Mohammed to their peoples with evident
proofs; vengeance was taken on wicked persons, and assistance for true believers
was incumbent.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted at length.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is based solely on the supplied public-domain English
passage. Motif labels are limited to available taxonomy references and direct
passage content. No comparison claims are made because the passage does not itself
provide an explicit cross-traditional or comparative claim.
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: |-
Footnotes were treated as part of the supplied passage where relevant, especially for usury/illicit gain and corruption by land and sea, but no external context was added.
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