batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l30824-l30891
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l30824-l30891
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVI. / ENTITLED, Y. S.;
REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30824-30891
start: '30824'
end: '30891'
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 presents signs of resurrection and divine power in the reviving
of dead earth by rain, the production of crops and gardens, the ordering of night,
sun, moon, and orbits, and the preservation or drowning of people traveling by
ship or other conveyances. It describes people rejecting signs, mocking almsgiving,
questioning the promised resurrection, and being overtaken by trumpet blasts,
after which they come forth from graves and hasten to their Lord.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Dead earth is described as a sign of resurrection when it is quickened by
rain and produces grain for eating.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Gardens of palm-trees and vines, springs, fruits, human labor, and created
kinds including two sexes are mentioned as signs or provisions.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Night, day, darkness, the sun, the moon, lunar mansions, and separate orbits
of the luminaries are described as ordered signs.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: obs:4
text: People carry their offspring in a ship filled with merchandise, and other
comparable riding-conveniences are said to have been made for them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: obs:5
text: If God pleases, travelers may be drowned with none to help them, unless through
divine mercy they are delivered for a season.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: When warned to fear what is before and behind them, the addressed people withdraw
and turn aside from signs of their Lord.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:10
- id: obs:7
text: Unbelievers mock the command to give alms by asking whether they should feed
someone whom God could feed if he pleased.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:10
- id: obs:8
text: The questioners ask when the promised resurrection will be fulfilled.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: One sounding of the trumpet overtakes people while they are disputing, leaving
no time to arrange their effects or return to family.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: A second trumpet sounding is followed by people coming forth from their graves
and hastening to their Lord.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / LORD
description: The divine actor who quickens dead earth, creates kinds, orders celestial
bodies, makes conveyances, may drown or deliver, bestows goods, and is the Lord
to whom the resurrected hasten.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: addressed people
description: People to whom signs are presented; they travel, are warned, may withdraw
from signs, question resurrection, and are overtaken by trumpet soundings.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: unbelievers
description: Those who respond mockingly to the command to give alms and question
the promise of resurrection.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: those who believe
description: People addressed by unbelievers in the almsgiving exchange.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: offspring
description: The offspring carried in a ship filled with merchandise.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: life-giver and provider
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God quickens dead earth by rain, produces grain, gardens, springs, fruits,
and has bestowed goods.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: cosmic orderer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage attributes the disposition of the sun, moon, night, day, and
orbits to the mighty, wise God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: role:3
label: deliverer and final Lord
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Travelers are delivered only through mercy, and the resurrected hasten to
their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: recipients of signs and warning
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage repeatedly says signs are shown to them and that they are warned,
yet withdraw or turn aside.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: mockers of almsgiving and questioners of resurrection
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Unbelievers mock the command to give alms and ask when the resurrection promise
will be fulfilled.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: believers addressed in dispute
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The unbelievers speak to those who believe in the almsgiving exchange.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: water that revives and sustains
literal_form: rain and springs
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: dead earth revived
literal_form: dead earth quickened by rain and producing grain
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: fruit-bearing vegetation
literal_form: grain, gardens of palm-trees, vines, fruits, and an old palm-branch
image for the moon
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: sym:4
label: ordered luminaries
literal_form: night, day, sun, moon, lunar mansions, and distinct orbits
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: sym:5
label: ship and riding-conveyances
literal_form: ship filled with merchandise and other conveniences whereon people
ride
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: trumpet blasts
literal_form: one sounding of the trumpet and a later trumpet sounding
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: graves opened by resurrection sequence
literal_form: graves from which people come forth after the second trumpet
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: revival of dead earth as sign
summary: Dead earth is quickened by rain and made to produce grain, gardens, springs,
and fruits for people to eat.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: celestial order as sign
summary: Night and day, darkness, sun, moon, lunar mansions, and separate orbits
are presented as ordered signs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: scene:3
label: travel by ship and possible drowning
summary: People carry their offspring in a ship and ride other conveyances; if God
pleases they may drown, but mercy can deliver them for a time.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: rejection of warnings and alms
summary: The people withdraw from warnings and signs, while unbelievers mock the
instruction to give alms from what God has bestowed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:10
- id: scene:5
label: trumpets and emergence from graves
summary: Questioners of resurrection are overtaken by a first trumpet sounding,
and after another sounding they come out of their graves and hasten to their Lord.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: resurrection signaled through revived earth and graves
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage explicitly calls the revived dead earth a sign of resurrection
and later describes people coming forth from graves after a trumpet sounding.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The agricultural revival is presented as a sign of resurrection rather
than as an independent dying-and-returning vegetation myth.
- id: motif:2
label: divine judgment announced by trumpet
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The promised resurrection is questioned, then trumpet soundings overtake
people, prevent ordinary affairs, and summon them from graves to their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes resurrection and summons; explicit judgment proceedings
are not described within this line range.
- id: motif:3
label: divine ordering of celestial cycles
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: Night, day, sun, moon, lunar mansions, and separate orbits are described
as signs arranged by God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage concerns daily and lunar order; seasonal renewal is only indirectly
related through agricultural and celestial cycles.
- id: motif:4
label: preservation or peril in a vessel
taxonomy_refs:
- ark_vessel
basis: The passage names a ship carrying offspring and describes possible drowning
or deliverance by mercy; the note says some suppose Noah's ark is intended.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
confidence: low
cautions: The main wording refers to a ship filled with merchandise, and the Noah/ark
interpretation is presented only as a note reporting some interpreters.
- id: motif:5
label: charitable test through uneven provision
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The passage commands giving alms from what God has bestowed, while the note
explains want as a test of the rich and exercise of charity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The motif is ethical and distributive rather than a narrative exchange
scene.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself presents the revival of dead earth by rain as a sign for
bodily resurrection, linking agricultural renewal imagery with the resurrection
motif.
claim_level: same_function
target: resurrection motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an internal functional comparison within the passage, not a
claim of historical contact with another tradition.
- id: claim:2
claim: The ship passage can be cautiously related to an ark-vessel pattern only
because the translator's note reports that some suppose Noah and companions in
the ark are intended.
claim_level: same_motif
target: ark_vessel motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: low
limitations: The main passage wording also allows ordinary ships, merchandise, camels
as land-ships, or lesser vessels; the ark identification is not certain from the
main text alone.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 30824-30827
quote_or_summary: '"One sign of the resurrection unto them is the dead earth...
we quicken the same by the rain, and produce thereout various sorts of grain".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 30828-30835
quote_or_summary: God makes gardens of palm-trees and vines, causes springs to gush
forth, provides fruits and human labor, and creates different kinds, including
two sexes and unknown things.
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 30836-30842
quote_or_summary: Night covers people with darkness; the sun hastens to its place
of rest; the moon has appointed mansions until it becomes like an old palm branch;
sun and moon do not overtake each other, and each luminary moves in its own orbit.
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 30843-30847
quote_or_summary: A sign is that people carry their offspring in a ship filled with
merchandise and have other riding-conveniences; God may drown them with none to
help, unless mercy delivers them for a season.
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 30848-30854
quote_or_summary: When warned to fear what is before and behind them, the people
withdraw and turn aside from signs; when told to give alms, unbelievers mock believers
by asking whether they should feed someone God could feed.
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 30855-30859
quote_or_summary: The people ask when the promise of resurrection will be fulfilled;
one trumpet sounding overtakes them while disputing, leaving no time to arrange
effects or return to family.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 30860-30861
quote_or_summary: '"And the trumpet shall be sounded again; and behold they shall
come forth from their graves, and hasten unto their LORD."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: note n-o, lines 30876-30880
quote_or_summary: The note says some suppose Noah and companions in the ark are
intended, while another note identifies comparable conveyances as camels, lesser
vessels, or boats.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: notes k-m and footnote 1, lines 30864-30875, 30890-30891
quote_or_summary: Notes explain the sun's course or place of rest, the twenty-eight
lunar mansions or houses of the moon, and the old crooked yellow palm branch as
an image for the new moon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: notes p-q, lines 30881-30886
quote_or_summary: The note glosses what is before and behind as punishment of this
world and the next, and explains the alms dispute as involving poor Moslems and
richer Koreish, with want serving to try the rich and exercise charity.
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: medium
notes: Literal extraction is direct from the passage. Motif confidence is highest
for resurrection and lower where based on translator notes or broad taxonomy fit.
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: |-
All observations and motifs are based only on the supplied passage and notes. Taxonomy references are limited to the supplied available references.
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