batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l29252-l29335
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l29252-l29335
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XXX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXI. / IN
THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 29252-29335
start: '29252'
end: '29335'
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 gives admonitions attributed to a father addressing his son,
instructing him to avoid idolatry even under parental pressure, practice prayer
and justice, avoid arrogance, and speak moderately. It describes God as creator,
knower, judge, giver of favors, controller of cosmic cycles, sender of rain, and
possessor of knowledge of the hour, wombs, future gain, and place of death. It
contrasts revelation with ancestral practice, warns of punishment and judgment,
evokes ships endangered by waves whose passengers call on God, and uses images
of a mustard seed, rock, heavens, earth, trees as pens, and seas as ink.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A son is told not to obey parents if they urge association of others with
God, while still keeping reasonable company with them in this world.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker says that even a matter as small as a mustard seed, hidden in
a rock, the heavens, or the earth, will be brought to light by God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The son is instructed to be constant in prayer, command justice, forbid evil,
and be patient under afflictions.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The son is instructed not to show contempt or walk insolently, and to be moderate
in pace and voice.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage states that God subjected what is in heaven and earth to human
service and poured out inward and outward favors.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Some people are described as disputing about God without knowledge, guidance,
or an enlightening book, and as choosing ancestral practice over what God revealed.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: One who resigns himself to God while doing righteousness is said to take hold
of a strong handle.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Unbelievers are said to return to God, who will declare what they have done
and knows the innermost parts of human breasts.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: If all earthly trees were pens and the sea were expanded into seven seas of
ink, the words of God would not be exhausted.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Human creation and resuscitation are said to be like the creation and resuscitation
of one soul.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: God is described as causing night and day to succeed one another and compelling
the sun and moon to serve until a determined period.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Ships are said to run in the sea by God's favor as signs for patient and grateful
persons.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: When waves cover people like clouds, they call upon God with pure religion;
after safe landing, some halt between true faith and idolatry.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: People are warned to fear the Lord and dread a day when a father will not
make satisfaction for his child nor a child for his father.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: Knowledge of the hour of judgment, the timing of rain, what is in wombs, future
gain, and land of death is said to be with God.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine figure addressed as God or Lord, described as knowing, creating,
judging, favoring, and controlling cosmic and earthly events.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:15
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the son
description: The addressee of the admonitions beginning with 'Oh my son.'
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: parents
description: Parents who may try to induce the son to associate others with God,
but are still to receive reasonable companionship in this world.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: people who follow their fathers
description: People who reject what God revealed and say they will follow what they
found their fathers practicing.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: the devil / the deceiver
description: A figure said to invite people to the torment of hell and not to be
allowed to deceive people concerning God.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:14
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: unbeliever
description: A person whose unbelief is not to grieve the addressee and who will
return to God for disclosure of deeds.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: people in ships
description: People endangered by waves at sea who call upon God and are then brought
safe to land.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: father and child on the day of judgment
description: A father and child are mentioned as unable to make satisfaction for
one another on the dreaded day.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine knower
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to know hidden matters, inward human states, and unknown future
realities.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:15
- id: role:2
label: creator and resuscitator
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Creation and resuscitation are attributed to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: People return to God, who declares their deeds and is associated with the
hour of judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:15
- id: role:4
label: cosmic governor and benefactor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God subjects heaven and earth to human service, governs night, day, sun,
moon, ships, and rain, and gives favors.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:15
- id: role:5
label: instructed child
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The son receives moral and ritual instructions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: parental pressure
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Parents are described as attempting to prevail on the son to associate others
with God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:7
label: adherents of ancestral practice
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: They answer that they will follow what they found their fathers practicing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: deceiver or tempter
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The devil is said to invite them to hell, and the deceiver is named as one
who may deceive concerning God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:14
- id: role:9
label: accountable unbeliever
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The unbeliever returns to God and is told what he has done.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: crisis supplicants
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: When covered by waves, they call upon God; after rescue, some waver between
faith and idolatry.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:11
label: kinship figures unable to intercede
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The father and child cannot make satisfaction for one another on the warned-of
day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: mustard seed
literal_form: a grain of mustard-seed used as an image of very small weight
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: hidden rock, heavens, and earth
literal_form: a matter hidden in a rock, in the heavens, or in the earth
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: strong handle
literal_form: a strong handle taken by one who resigns himself to God and works
righteousness
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: trees as pens
literal_form: all trees in the earth imagined as pens
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:5
label: sea and seven seas of ink
literal_form: the sea expanded into seven seas of ink
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: night and day
literal_form: night succeeding day and day succeeding night
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:7
label: sun and moon
literal_form: the sun and moon compelled to serve until a determined period
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:8
label: ships at sea
literal_form: ships running in the sea by God's favor
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: sym:9
label: waves like clouds
literal_form: waves covering people like overshadowing clouds
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:10
label: day of judgment
literal_form: a dreaded day when kin cannot make satisfaction for one another
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: sym:11
label: rain
literal_form: rain descending at God's appointed time
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:12
label: wombs
literal_form: what is in the wombs of females, known by God
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Filial instruction under parental pressure
summary: The son is told not to obey parents in associating others with God, while
treating them reasonably and following one who turns sincerely to God.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Moral counsel to the son
summary: The son receives instruction about hidden deeds, prayer, justice, patience,
humility, gait, and voice.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Dispute over revelation and ancestral practice
summary: Some people dispute about God without knowledge and prefer ancestral practice
over what God revealed, while the devil is said to invite them to hell.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Return to God and disclosure of deeds
summary: The unbeliever's return to God is described, followed by disclosure of
deeds and punishment after brief worldly enjoyment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Inexhaustible divine words and resuscitation
summary: The passage imagines trees as pens and seven seas as ink that still could
not exhaust God's words, and states that creation and resuscitation of all are
like that of one soul.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:6
label: Cosmic cycles and signs at sea
summary: God governs night, day, sun, moon, ships at sea, and danger from waves,
during which people call upon God before being brought safely to land.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: scene:7
label: Warning of judgment and divine knowledge of hidden futures
summary: People are warned about a day when kinship cannot make satisfaction, and
God is said to possess knowledge of judgment, rain, wombs, future gain, and place
of death.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
- sym:11
- sym:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: wisdom instruction from parent to child
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage repeatedly frames admonitions as speech to 'my son' concerning
worship, conduct, humility, patience, and justice.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The speaking figure is not named within the supplied excerpt, though the
father-son instructional frame is explicit.
- id: motif:2
label: divine judgment and disclosure of deeds
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that people return to God, that deeds will be declared,
and that a day of judgment is to be dreaded.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:14
- ev:15
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes accountability rather than giving a detailed judgment-scene
narrative.
- id: motif:3
label: resuscitation of the dead
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage explicitly mentions creation and resuscitation and compares collective
resuscitation to that of one soul.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The excerpt states the doctrine briefly without narrative elaboration.
- id: motif:4
label: cosmic alternation under divine command
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: Night and day are paired in alternating succession, and sun and moon are
paired as luminaries serving until a determined period.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage presents cosmic order more
than an explicit mythic dualism.
- id: motif:5
label: maritime danger and supplication to the divine
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: People endangered by waves at sea call upon God, and after rescue some waver
between faith and idolatry.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: No specific available motif-family taxonomy precisely matches this maritime
crisis pattern.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 29252-29256
quote_or_summary: Parents are not to be obeyed if they urge association with God,
but are to be accompanied reasonably in this world; return to God is announced.
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 29257-29260
quote_or_summary: A matter as small as a mustard seed, hidden in rock, heavens,
or earth, will be brought to light by God, who is knowing.
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 29261-29264
quote_or_summary: The son is commanded to pray, enjoin justice, forbid evil, and
be patient under afflictions.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 29265-29268
quote_or_summary: The son is told not to show contempt or insolence, to walk moderately,
and to lower his voice; a loud voice is compared unfavorably to asses.
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 29269-29272
quote_or_summary: God is said to have subjected what is in heaven and earth to human
service and poured out favors, while some dispute about God without knowledge
or book.
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 29273-29276
quote_or_summary: When told to follow what God revealed, some say they will follow
their fathers' practice; the devil is said to invite them to hell.
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 29277-29279
quote_or_summary: Whoever resigns himself to God while doing righteousness is said
to take hold of a strong handle.
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 29280-29284
quote_or_summary: The unbeliever will return to God, be told what he has done, and
after brief enjoyment be driven to severe punishment; God knows the innermost
breasts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 29289-29292
quote_or_summary: If all earthly trees were pens and the sea became seven seas of
ink, the words of God would not be exhausted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 29293-29294
quote_or_summary: Creation and resuscitation are said to be like the creation and
resuscitation of one soul; God hears and sees.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 29310-29313
quote_or_summary: God causes night and day to succeed each other and compels the
sun and moon to serve until a determined period.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 29317-29319
quote_or_summary: Ships run in the sea by God's favor, showing signs to patient
and grateful persons.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 29320-29323
quote_or_summary: When waves cover people like clouds, they call on God; when brought
safely to land, some halt between true faith and idolatry.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 29324-29328
quote_or_summary: People are warned to fear the Lord and dread the day when father
and child cannot make satisfaction for one another; the present life and deceiver
should not deceive them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 29329-29333
quote_or_summary: Knowledge of the hour of judgment is with God; God sends rain
at the appointed time, knows what is in wombs, and knows future gain and land
of death.
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: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied English passage and notes. Motif
candidates are limited to available taxonomy references and explicit passage patterns;
comparison claims are omitted because the passage does not itself support a specific
cross-textual comparison.
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 taxonomy IDs or comparative parallels were added beyond the supplied motif-family and symbol reference lists.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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