batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l32511-l32573
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l32511-l32573
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32511-32573
start: '32511'
end: '32573'
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 the punishment of unbelievers in hell fire with the
comfort promised to upright believers by descending angels. It describes devils
as companions of those misled by false notions, mentions seducers from genii and
men, counsels repelling evil with good and seeking refuge in God from Satan, identifies
night, day, sun, moon, and rain-revived land as divine signs, and compares the
quickening of barren earth with the quickening of the dead on the day of resurrection.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Unbelievers are said to have hell fire as their abode and to receive grievous
punishment for rejecting divine signs.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Devils are said to be given as companions to those who held false notions
about the present world and the world to come.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The infidels in hell ask the Lord to show them two seducers, from genii and
men, so that they may cast them under their feet.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Those who affirm God as Lord and behave uprightly are addressed by descending
angels, who tell them not to fear or grieve and to rejoice in promised paradise.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The angels tell the upright that they are their friends in this life and the
life to come, and that paradise will contain what they desire and ask for.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The passage instructs that evil should be turned away with what is better,
transforming enmity into warm friendship.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: If a malicious suggestion comes from Satan, the addressee is told to have
recourse to God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Night, day, sun, and moon are described as signs of divine power, but the
sun and moon are not to be worshipped.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Angels with the Lord praise him night and day without weariness.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: Waste land is stirred and made active when rain is sent down upon it.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: The quickening of the earth is explicitly linked to the future quickening
of the dead.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: The passage contrasts one cast into hell fire with one who appears secure
on the day of resurrection.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: The divine speaker and addressee of worship, described as gracious,
merciful, creator, almighty, hearing, knowing, and beholding actions.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Unbelievers / enemies of God / infidels
description: Those who reject signs, oppose the Koran, and are associated with punishment
in hell fire.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Devils
description: Companions given to those misled by false notions about this world
and the world to come.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Two seducers of genii and men
description: Two figures requested by the infidels in hell as those who seduced
them.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Upright believers
description: Those who say their Lord is God and behave uprightly.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Angels
description: Beings who descend to comfort the upright and who praise the Lord night
and day without weariness.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Satan
description: Source of a malicious suggestion from which the addressee is told to
seek refuge in God.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: The dead
description: Those who will be quickened, in parallel with the quickening of the
earth.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: creator and proper object of worship
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says not to worship the sun or moon, but to worship God who created
them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: judge and reviver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is associated with punishment, beholding deeds, quickening the earth,
and quickening the dead.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: punished rejecters
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They reject signs and are assigned hell fire and grievous punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:10
- id: role:4
label: misleading companions
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Devils are given as companions and dress up false notions for people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: seducers blamed in hell
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The infidels ask to see two who seduced them and want to cast them underfoot.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: recipients of angelic consolation
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Angels descend to them and announce freedom from fear and grief and hope
of paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: comforting messengers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They descend and speak promises of paradise and friendship to the upright.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: unceasing praisers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The angels with the Lord praise him night and day and are not wearied.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: source of malicious suggestion
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: A malicious suggestion is described as coming from Satan.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:10
label: future resurrected beings
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The dead are said to be quickened by the one who quickens the earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: hell fire
literal_form: hell fire
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:10
- id: sym:2
label: paradise
literal_form: paradise promised to the upright
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: night and day
literal_form: night and day
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:4
label: sun and moon
literal_form: sun and moon
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: rain on waste land
literal_form: rain sent down on waste land, stirring and fermenting it
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: day of resurrection
literal_form: day of resurrection
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:7
label: underfoot abasement
literal_form: casting seducers under the feet
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Punishment of unbelievers in hell fire
summary: Unbelievers who reject signs are assigned hell fire and grievous punishment
as an everlasting abode.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Misleading companions and blamed seducers
summary: Devils are described as companions who beautified false notions, and infidels
in hell ask to see the seducers from genii and men so they can abase them.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Angelic consolation of the upright
summary: Angels descend to upright believers, telling them not to fear or grieve
and promising paradise and divine gifts.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Moral response to evil and Satanic suggestion
summary: The passage instructs the addressee to turn away evil with better conduct
and to seek refuge in God from Satan's malicious suggestion.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Cosmic signs and correct worship
summary: Night, day, sun, and moon are named as signs of divine power; worship is
directed to God rather than the sun or moon, and angels praise without weariness.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: Rain-revived earth and resurrection
summary: Waste land becomes active when rain is sent down, and this quickening of
earth is used to affirm that the dead will be quickened.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment with hell fire and secure resurrection outcome
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contrasts the fate of those cast into hell fire with those secure
on the day of resurrection and states that God beholds deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is doctrinal and admonitory; the extraction identifies a motif
family only at a broad thematic level.
- id: motif:2
label: resurrection as quickening of the dead
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The text explicitly says that the one who quickens the earth will surely
quicken the dead and names the day of resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: No detailed afterlife journey is narrated in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: barren land revived by rain as sign of resurrection
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Waste land stirred by descending rain is presented as a sign supporting the
future quickening of the dead.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The available taxonomy has no separate vegetation-revival symbol beyond
water; this is classified under resurrection because of the passage's explicit
interpretation.
- id: motif:4
label: angelic descent and consolation of the righteous
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Angels descend to the upright, comfort them, and announce hope of paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy includes ascent but not a specific descent motif;
the passage describes descent rather than ascent, so the taxonomy reference is
approximate.
- id: motif:5
label: malicious suggestion from Satan countered by refuge in God
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage describes a malicious suggestion from Satan and commands recourse
to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches temptation or refuge
from Satan.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: Within the passage, rain reviving waste land functions as an analogy for
the resurrection of the dead.
claim_level: same_function
target: resurrection motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an internal analogy stated by the passage, not evidence for
historical contact or comparison with another tradition.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers are assigned hell fire as an abode, grievous punishment,
and an everlasting reward for rejecting God's signs.
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 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: Devils are given as companions to those for whom false notions
of this world and the world to come were dressed up.
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 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: Infidels in hell ask the Lord to show the two who seduced them,
of genii and men, so they may cast them under their feet.
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 32511-32573; verse marker 30
quote_or_summary: Angels descend to those who say their Lord is God and behave uprightly,
telling them not to fear or grieve and to rejoice in promised paradise; they call
themselves friends in this life and the life to come.
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 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: Good and evil are not equal; evil is to be turned away with what
is better, so that an enemy may become like a warm friend.
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 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: If a malicious suggestion comes from Satan, the addressee is instructed
to have recourse to God, who hears and knows.
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 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: Night, day, sun, and moon are named as signs of divine power;
worship of the sun and moon is rejected in favor of worshipping God who created
them.
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 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: Angels with the Lord praise him night and day and are not wearied.
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 32511-32573
quote_or_summary: Waste land is stirred and ferments when rain is sent down; the
one who quickens earth will surely quicken the dead.
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 32511-32573; verse marker 40
quote_or_summary: The passage contrasts one cast into hell fire with one who appears
secure on the day of resurrection, and states that God beholds what people do.
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 strong because the passage states the main scenes and
analogies explicitly. Motif classification is limited to the supplied taxonomy
and remains broad. The sole comparison claim is an internal functional analogy
rather than an external comparative assertion.
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. Footnote suggestions identifying particular seducers were not treated as passage figures beyond the generic wording, because they are presented as commentary and uncertainty.
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