batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l30090-l30134
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l30090-l30134
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XXXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIII.
/ IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30090-30134
start: '30090'
end: '30134'
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 translator's notes on slanders or injuries attributed
to Moses and Muhammad, including variant explanations of Moses being vindicated.
The main Qur'anic text exhorts believers to fear God, speak rightly, obey God
and the apostle, and describes the faith being offered to the heavens, earth,
and mountains, which refused it, while man undertook it, followed by divine punishment
for hypocrites and idolaters and mercy for believers.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A note says some malicious people accused Moses of bodily shame or defect,
and God cleared him by causing the stone holding his clothes to run away into
the camp while Moses followed it naked.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A note gives other explanations of the injury to Moses, including Karn's accusation
or suspicion that Moses murdered Aaron.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: One variant says Moses was justified in the Aaron matter by angels bringing
Aaron's body to public view; another says Aaron was raised to life to testify.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A note says Muhammad was criticized over dividing spoils and responded by
invoking Moses as a brother who was wronged more and bore it patiently.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Believers are instructed to fear God and speak well-directed words so that
God may correct their works and forgive their sins.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The faith is said to have been proposed to the heavens, the earth, and the
mountains; they refused and were afraid, while man undertook it.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage states that God may punish hypocritical men and women and idolaters
and idolatresses, and turn mercifully to true believers.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine agent who clears Moses, forgives sins, corrects works, proposes
the faith, punishes hypocrites and idolaters, and is gracious and merciful to
believers.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Moses
description: A prophet described in notes as wronged by accusations and vindicated,
and as having borne injury patiently.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: malicious accusers of Moses
description: People said to have spread a false report about Moses.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Aaron
description: A figure whose death was, in one explanation, wrongly suspected to
involve Moses; in variants, his body or his revived testimony vindicates Moses.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: angels
description: In one variant explanation, angels bring Aaron's body and expose it
to public view.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Muhammad
description: The prophet described in a note as criticized over dividing spoils
and as comparing his treatment to Moses's greater wrong.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: true believers
description: People addressed to fear God, speak rightly, obey God and the apostle,
and receive divine mercy.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: heavens, earth, and mountains
description: Cosmic entities to whom the faith is proposed and who refuse it out
of fear.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: man
description: The human figure or humanity who undertakes the faith after the heavens,
earth, and mountains refuse it.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: hypocritical men and women and idolaters and idolatresses
description: Groups named as recipients of divine punishment.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine vindicator, judge, and merciful forgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God clears Moses, forgives believers, proposes the faith, punishes some groups,
and is gracious and merciful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: wronged prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:6
basis: Moses is described as wronged and vindicated; Muhammad is described as criticized
and as invoking Moses's greater injury.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: false accusers
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They spread a report about Moses that the note says was false.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: posthumous or revived witness in variant explanation
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Aaron's body is shown publicly, or Aaron is said to have been raised to life
to testify.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: agents of public vindication
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Angels bring Aaron's body and expose it to public view in one variant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: obedient recipients of correction, forgiveness, and mercy
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Believers are told obedience and rightly directed speech lead to corrected
works, forgiveness, felicity, and mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: cosmic refusers of the faith
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The heavens, earth, and mountains refuse to undertake the proposed faith
and fear it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: human undertaker of the faith
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Man undertakes the faith after the cosmic entities refuse it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: recipients of punishment
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Hypocritical men and women and idolaters and idolatresses are named as those
God may punish.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: runaway stone
literal_form: Stone on which Moses had laid his clothes, made to run away into the
camp in the note's explanation.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: mountains refusing the faith
literal_form: Mountains named with the heavens and earth as refusing to undertake
the faith.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: faith undertaken as a burden or charge
literal_form: The faith proposed to the heavens, earth, mountains, and man, refused
by the former and undertaken by man.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: exposed body as testimony
literal_form: Aaron's body brought by angels and exposed to public view in one variant
explanation.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Moses vindicated from bodily slander
summary: A note recounts a variant in which Moses is accused of a bodily defect,
and God clears him by making the stone with his clothes run into the camp, causing
the falsehood to become evident.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Moses vindicated in Aaron's death variant
summary: Another variant says Moses was suspected in Aaron's death and was vindicated
either by angels publicly showing Aaron's body or by Aaron being raised to life
to testify.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Muhammad compares his injury to Moses's patience
summary: A note says Muhammad, after being criticized over spoils, invoked Moses
as one who had been wronged more and had endured patiently.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Instruction to believers
summary: Believers are told to fear God, speak rightly, and obey God and the apostle,
with correction, forgiveness, and felicity promised.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Faith proposed to cosmos and undertaken by man
summary: The faith is proposed to the heavens, earth, and mountains, who refuse
in fear, while man undertakes it and is described as unjust to himself and foolish.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Punishment and mercy
summary: God may punish hypocrites and idolaters and turn mercifully to true believers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine vindication of a falsely accused prophet
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The note presents Moses as falsely accused and cleared by divine action or
by miraculous public evidence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The details are translator-reported exegetical variants, not all part
of the main verse text in this excerpt.
- id: motif:2
label: resurrected witness to clear the accused
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
basis: One variant says Aaron was raised to life to testify and thereby justify
Moses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: low
cautions: This is one of several reported explanations, introduced as a variant
rather than as the sole reading.
- id: motif:3
label: humanity accepts a divine trust refused by cosmic powers
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The faith is offered to the heavens, earth, and mountains; they refuse in
fear, while man undertakes it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage uses Sale's term 'faith'; no additional doctrinal interpretation
is supplied beyond the excerpt.
- id: motif:4
label: divine judgment separating hypocrites, idolaters, and believers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage explicitly names punishment for hypocrites and idolaters and
mercy for true believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: ''
- id: motif:5
label: wronged prophet as model of patience
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The note says Muhammad referred to Moses as wronged more than himself and
as bearing it with patience.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a reported occasion for the passage, not a narrative scene in
the main Qur'anic verses quoted here.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The note explicitly compares Muhammad's criticism over dividing spoils with
Moses's greater suffering of wrongs, using Moses as a model of patient endurance.
claim_level: same_function
target: Moses as wronged patient prophet and Muhammad as criticized prophet
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is reported by the translator from tradition and is
limited to the note's stated occasion.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 30090-30134; note i, Moses bodily accusation variant
quote_or_summary: Moses is said to have been accused of a shameful condition, and
God cleared him by making the stone with his clothes run into the camp, revealing
the report as false.
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 30090-30134; note i, alternate Moses injury variants
quote_or_summary: Other explanations identify the injury as Karn's accusation or
suspicion over Aaron's death; Moses is vindicated by angels bringing Aaron's body
to view or by Aaron being raised to life to testify.
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 30090-30134; note i, occasion of Muhammad's saying
quote_or_summary: "“GOD be merciful unto my brother Moses: he was wronged more than
this, and bore it with patience.”"
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 30090-30134; verse 70 and following
quote_or_summary: Believers are told to fear God, speak well-directed words, and
obey God and the apostle so that God may correct their works, forgive sins, and
grant great felicity.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 30090-30134; faith proposed to cosmic entities
quote_or_summary: "“We proposed the faith unto the heavens, and the earth, and the
mountains: and they refused to undertake the same, and were afraid thereof; but
man undertook it.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 30090-30134; closing judgment statement
quote_or_summary: God may punish hypocritical men and women and idolaters and idolatresses,
and may turn mercifully to true believers; God is gracious and merciful.
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: Main verse motifs are straightforward; several narrative details come from
translator's notes reporting variant exegetical explanations and therefore need
review.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Taxonomy references were limited to available motif families and symbols.
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