batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l30137-l30241
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l30137-l30241
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XXXIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIV.
/ IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30137-30241
start: '30137'
end: '30241'
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 Saba with praise of God as sovereign over heaven and
earth, knower of what enters and leaves earth and descends and ascends from heaven,
and guarantor of the hour of judgment. It contrasts recompense for believers with
punishment for those rejecting signs, records unbelieving mockery of resurrection,
warns of earth swallowing or heaven falling, and recounts divine gifts to David
and Solomon: mountains and birds praising with David, iron softened for mail,
wind and molten brass subjected to Solomon, and genii compelled to build monumental
objects. Included notes explain some terms and report commentary about the divine
law or trust offered to cosmic creation and accepted by Adam.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: God is praised as owner of whatever is in the heavens and on earth and as
praised in the world to come.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God is said to know what enters and comes out of the earth and what descends
from and ascends to heaven.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The unbelievers say the hour of judgment will not come, while the answer asserts
that it will come and that even the smallest thing is written in a clear book
of decrees.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Those who believe and do righteousness are promised pardon and honourable
provision; those who try to nullify the signs are threatened with painful punishment.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Those given knowledge recognize the revealed book as truth and as directing
to a glorious and laudable way.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Unbelievers mock the prophecy that people dispersed after death will be raised
as a new creature and accuse the prophet of falsehood or distraction.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage warns that God could make the earth open and swallow people or
make a piece of heaven fall upon them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: David receives excellence; mountains and birds are commanded to join his praise;
iron is softened for him to make coats of mail.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Solomon has the wind made subject to him, a fountain of molten brass made
to flow, and genii compelled to work in his presence by divine will.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: The genii make palaces, statues, very large dishes, and immovable cauldrons
for Solomon; the family of David is exhorted to righteous work with thanksgiving.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: A note reports commentary that the divine law or faith was offered to the
heavens, earth, and mountains, which declined it, and that Adam accepted it.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Divine speaker and sovereign described as owner of heaven and earth,
knower of hidden things, revealer, recompensing judge, and giver of gifts to David
and Solomon.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Unbelievers
description: Those who deny the hour of judgment, mock resurrection, and reject
the life to come.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Believers who work righteousness
description: People promised pardon and honourable provision.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Those given knowledge
description: People who see the revealed book as truth and guidance.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: David
description: Recipient of divine excellence; associated with mountains and birds
praising and with softened iron for coats of mail.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Mountains
description: Natural formations commanded to sing alternate praises with David;
also mentioned in a note as among cosmic entities declining the divine legal burden.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Birds
description: Creatures obliged to join the mountains in praise with David.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Solomon
description: Recipient for whom the wind is subjected, molten brass flows, and genii
work.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Genii
description: Spirit-workers compelled to serve Solomon and make monumental objects;
disobedient ones are threatened with burning or hell fire.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Family of David
description: Household or lineage exhorted to work righteousness with thanksgiving.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Heavens and earth in commentary note
description: Cosmic entities described in a note as declining to undertake the divine
law on conditions of reward and punishment.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Adam in commentary note
description: Figure in the note said to have accepted the divine offer that cosmic
entities declined.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine sovereign and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God owns heaven and earth, knows hidden things, announces the hour, recompenses
believers, punishes rejecters, and grants powers to David and Solomon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:2
label: deniers of judgment and resurrection
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They deny the hour and mock the claim that the dead will be raised anew.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: rewarded righteous
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They believe, work righteousness, and receive pardon and honourable provision.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: recognizers of revelation
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: They see the revealed book as truth and guidance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: recipient of divine excellence and craft aid
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: David receives excellence, creation joins his praise, and iron is softened
for his mail-making.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: creation joining praise
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: Mountains and birds are commanded or obliged to praise with David.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:7
label: recipient of subjected forces and labor
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Wind, molten brass, and genii labor are made available for Solomon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: compelled spirit-workers
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The genii work in Solomon's presence by divine will and make objects for
him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:9
label: household exhorted to thankful righteousness
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The family of David is told to work righteousness with thanksgiving.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: role:10
label: acceptor of divine legal obligation in commentary
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The note says Adam accepted the divine offer that heaven, earth, and mountains
declined.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:11
label: decliners of divine legal obligation in commentary
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:11
basis: The note says the heavens, earth, and mountains declined to undertake the
law under conditions of reward and punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: clear book of decrees
literal_form: a perspicuous book in which small and great things are written
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: earth swallowing and heaven falling
literal_form: earth opening to swallow people; a piece of heaven falling upon them
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:3
label: mountains
literal_form: mountains commanded to sing alternate praises with David
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: softened iron and coats of mail
literal_form: iron softened for making complete coats of mail with rightly disposed
plates
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: subjected wind
literal_form: wind made subject to Solomon, blowing a month's journey in morning
and evening
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: fountain of molten brass
literal_form: a fountain of molten brass made to flow for Solomon
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: fire of punishment
literal_form: hell fire or burning punishment for disobedient genii
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: monumental vessels and structures
literal_form: palaces, statues, large dishes like fishponds, and cauldrons standing
firm
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: God's knowledge, record, and judgment
summary: God is praised as sovereign and all-knowing; the hour is affirmed; all
things are recorded; believers and rejecters receive contrasting outcomes.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Mocked resurrection and threatened cosmic catastrophe
summary: Unbelievers mock resurrection and the prophet; the passage warns that God
can make earth swallow them or heaven fall upon them.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: David, praising creation, and ironwork
summary: David receives divine excellence; mountains and birds join his praise;
iron is softened so he can make coats of mail.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Solomon's subjected wind, metal, and spirit-workers
summary: Wind, molten brass, and genii labor are made subject to Solomon; the genii
make structures and large objects, with punishment threatened for disobedience.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Commentarial offer of divine law
summary: A note reports an interpretation in which heavens, earth, and mountains
decline the burden of divine law, while Adam accepts it.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:11
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment with record, reward, and punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage affirms the hour of judgment, a comprehensive record, pardon
and provision for righteous believers, and painful punishment for rejecters.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: Classification is limited to the supplied passage and its available taxonomy.
- id: motif:2
label: resurrection as new creation
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Unbelievers mock the claim that after complete dispersion people will be
raised as a new creature, and rejection of the life to come is condemned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents the motif through reported denial and response rather
than an extended resurrection narrative.
- id: motif:3
label: threat of earth and heaven as instruments of judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The warning that earth may open and swallow people or heaven may fall functions
as threatened divine punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: No separate catastrophe narrative unfolds in the passage; it is a conditional
warning.
- id: motif:4
label: divinely aided mastery over craft and natural forces
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: David receives softened iron for mail-making and creation joins his praise;
Solomon receives command over wind, molten brass, and genii labor.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: No exact available taxonomy ref captures the combined craft, nature, and
spirit-labor pattern.
- id: motif:5
label: wisdom and recognition of revelation
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: God is described as wise, and those given knowledge recognize the revealed
book as true guidance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The wisdom motif is explicit but brief.
- id: motif:6
label: accepted divine trust or covenantal obligation in commentary
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The note explains faith or obedience to divine law as a grave obligation
declined by heavens, earth, and mountains and accepted by Adam.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: This is drawn from a translator's note/commentarial report within the
provided passage rather than from the main Chapter XXXIV verses quoted here.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits the supplied divine_judgment motif family through its hour
of judgment, complete divine record, and differentiated reward and punishment.
claim_level: same_motif
target: motif_families:divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a taxonomy alignment based only on the supplied passage, not
a historical comparison.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage fits the supplied resurrection motif family through its discussion
of being raised as a new creature after total dispersion.
claim_level: same_motif
target: motif_families:resurrection
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The motif appears in polemical speech about denial rather than as a
detailed resurrection scene.
- id: claim:3
claim: The note about heavens, earth, mountains, and Adam aligns cautiously with
the supplied covenant motif family because it frames obedience to divine law as
an accepted obligation with consequences.
claim_level: same_function
target: motif_families:covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The claim relies on the included commentary note and should be reviewed
against the underlying verse context.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 30137-30241, Chapter XXXIV opening
quote_or_summary: '"PRAISE be unto GOD, unto whom belongeth whatever is in the heavens
and on earth"; God knows what enters and leaves earth and what descends from and
ascends to heaven.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 30137-30241, judgment-hour assertion
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers deny that the hour of judgment will come; the answer
says it will come and that even the weight of an ant is not absent from God but
is written in the perspicuous book of decrees.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 30137-30241, recompense and punishment
quote_or_summary: Believers who work righteousness receive pardon and honourable
provision, while those who try to render the signs ineffective receive painful
torment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 30137-30241, knowledge and revealed book
quote_or_summary: Those given knowledge see that the book revealed from the Lord
is truth and directs to the glorious and laudable way.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 30137-30241, unbelievers' mockery of resurrection
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers ask whether a man will prophesy that after total dispersion
they will be raised as a new creature, and they accuse him of forging a lie or
being distracted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 30137-30241, warning sign
quote_or_summary: '"we will cause the earth to open and swallow them up, or will
cause a piece of the heaven to fall upon them"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 30137-30241, David passage
quote_or_summary: God bestows excellence on David; mountains and birds join his
praise; iron is softened so he may make complete coats of mail and arrange their
small plates rightly.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 30137-30241, Solomon's wind, brass, and genii
quote_or_summary: The wind is subjected to Solomon, a fountain of molten brass flows
for him, and genii work in his presence by God's will; disobedient genii are threatened
with hell fire or burning.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 30137-30241, genii-made objects
quote_or_summary: The genii make for Solomon palaces, statues, large dishes like
fishponds, and firm cauldrons; the family of David is told to work righteousness
with thanksgiving.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
- id: ev:10
type: note
locator: lines 30137-30241, note l
quote_or_summary: The note explains faith as obedience to divine law and reports
commentary in which heavens, earth, and mountains decline to undertake it under
conditions of reward and punishment, while Adam accepts it.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain text as supplied in source metadata.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Main Chapter XXXIV extraction is straightforward. Some material comes from
embedded notes, including a prior-context note about the divine legal trust, so
those items are marked with caution and 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: |-
Only supplied passage text and metadata were used. Taxonomy refs are limited to the provided motif and symbol lists.
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