batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l34449-l34490
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l34449-l34490
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LI. / ENTITLED, THE DISPERSING;
REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34449-34490
start: '34449'
end: '34490'
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 recounts punishments of earlier transgressing peoples, describes
divine creation of heaven, earth, and paired kinds, commands flight to God and
rejection of other gods, notes the repeated rejection of apostles, and warns unbelievers
of a threatened day.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: An unnamed figure and his forces are taken and cast into the sea, and the
figure is described as worthy of reprehension.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The tribe of Ad is presented as a sign when a destroying wind is sent against
them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The destroying wind renders what it touches rotten and reduced to dust.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Thamud is presented as a sign after being told to enjoy themselves for a time.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Thamud transgresses the command of their Lord and is assailed by a terrible
noise from heaven while looking on.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Thamud cannot stand on their feet or save themselves from destruction.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The people of Noah are destroyed before the other named groups because they
enormously transgressed.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: God is described as building heaven with might, giving it large extent, stretching
forth the earth beneath, and spreading it evenly.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Everything is said to have been created in two kinds so that people may consider.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: The speaker commands the audience to flee to God and not set up another god
with the true God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: The speaker identifies himself as a public warner from God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: Predecessors are said to have rejected every apostle by calling him a magician
or a madman.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:13
text: The passage asks whether this behavior was bequeathed successively and says
the people enormously transgress.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:14
text: The addressee is told to withdraw from them while continuing to admonish,
because admonition benefits true believers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:15
text: Genii and men are said to have been created only to serve God.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:16
text: God is said not to require sustenance or feeding from creatures and to provide
for all creatures with mighty power.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:17
text: Those who injure the apostle are promised a portion like that of those who
behaved similarly in past times.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:18
text: Unbelievers are warned of woe because of their threatened day.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / LORD / true God
description: The divine speaker or source described as creator, provider, Lord,
and the one to whom people should flee and whom they should serve.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Unnamed condemned figure and his forces
description: An unnamed figure and his forces are cast into the sea; the figure
is described as worthy of reprehension.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Tribe of Ad
description: A group against whom a destroying wind is sent as a sign.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Thamud
description: A group that transgresses the command of their Lord and is destroyed
by a terrible noise from heaven.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: People of Noah
description: A people destroyed before the other named groups because they enormously
transgressed.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Public warner / apostle
description: The speaker identifies as a public warner from God; apostles are described
as being rejected by predecessors, and an apostle is mentioned as being injured
by others.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Predecessors
description: Earlier people who rejected apostles by calling them magicians or madmen.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: True believers
description: Those for whom admonition is said to be profitable.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Genii and men
description: Beings created for the purpose of serving God.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Unbelievers
description: People warned of woe because of a threatened day.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: creator
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is described as building heaven, spreading earth, and creating everything
in two kinds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: provider
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to provide for all creatures and not to need sustenance or feeding.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:3
label: sole deity to be served
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The audience is told to flee to God, not set up another god, and genii and
men are created to serve God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: transgressing or reprehensible recipients of destruction
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: These figures or peoples are described as reprehensible, transgressing, or
destroyed by sea, wind, noise, or prior destruction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: public warner or apostle
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The speaker calls himself a public warner, and the passage discusses apostles
being rejected or injured.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: role:6
label: rejecters or threatened unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:10
basis: Predecessors reject apostles, and unbelievers are warned of a threatened
day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: role:7
label: beneficiaries of admonition
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Admonition is said to profit true believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: created servants
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Genii and men are said to have been created only to serve God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: sea
literal_form: sea
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: destroying wind
literal_form: wind that renders touched things rotten and reduced to dust
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: terrible noise from heaven
literal_form: terrible noise from heaven
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: heaven
literal_form: heaven built with might and given large extent
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: earth
literal_form: earth stretched forth beneath and evenly spread
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: two kinds
literal_form: everything created in two kinds
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: threatened day
literal_form: day with which unbelievers are threatened
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Casting into the sea
summary: An unnamed figure and his forces are taken and cast into the sea, and the
figure is condemned as reprehensible.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Ad and the destroying wind
summary: The tribe of Ad is made a sign when a destroying wind is sent against them
and reduces what it touches to rot and dust.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Thamud and the noise from heaven
summary: Thamud is told to enjoy themselves for a time, transgresses the Lord's
command, and is overcome by a terrible noise from heaven, unable to stand or save
themselves.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Destruction of the people of Noah
summary: The people of Noah are said to have been destroyed earlier because of enormous
transgression.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Creation of heaven, earth, and paired kinds
summary: God is described as building heaven, spreading earth, and creating everything
in two kinds.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Warning and exclusive devotion
summary: The public warner commands the audience to flee to God and not set up another
god with the true God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Recurring rejection of apostles
summary: The passage states that predecessors rejected apostles as magicians or
madmen and frames this as repeated transgressive behavior.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Admonition and purpose of creatures
summary: The addressee is told to withdraw yet continue admonishing; genii and men
are said to exist to serve God, who provides and needs no sustenance.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:9
label: Threatened portion and day
summary: Those who injure the apostle are promised a portion like past wrongdoers,
and unbelievers are warned of their threatened day.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine destruction of transgressing peoples
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: 'Multiple groups are destroyed or punished after reprehension or transgression:
an unnamed figure and forces in the sea, Ad by wind, Thamud by a heavenly noise,
and the people of Noah by prior destruction.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage summarizes punishments rather than narrating each full episode.
- id: motif:2
label: cosmic creation by divine power
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: God is described as building heaven, extending it, spreading earth, and creating
everything in two kinds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: No more detailed cosmogonic sequence is provided in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: paired creation of all things
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The passage states that everything has been created in two kinds so that
people may consider.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The nature of the pairs is not specified in the passage.
- id: motif:4
label: prophetic warning and rejection
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The speaker identifies as a public warner, commands exclusive devotion to
God, and says predecessors rejected apostles as magicians or madmen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The specific audience and named apostle are not identified within this
excerpt.
- id: motif:5
label: threatened day of reckoning for unbelievers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Unbelievers are warned of woe because of the day with which they are threatened,
and injurers of the apostle are promised a portion like past wrongdoers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not elaborate the events of the threatened day.
- id: motif:6
label: creation for service to God
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: Genii and men are said to have been created only to serve God, who does not
require sustenance from them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states a purpose of creation but does not present a formal
covenant scene.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly compares those who injure the apostle with earlier
people who behaved similarly, assigning them a like portion.
claim_level: same_function
target: earlier transgressing peoples and predecessors within the passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The comparison is internal to the passage and does not establish historical
contact or common inheritance beyond the text's own framing.
- id: claim:2
claim: The rejection of apostles as magicians or madmen is presented as a recurring
behavior among predecessors.
claim_level: same_function
target: repeated rejection of apostles by predecessor communities
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage does not name the individual apostles in this excerpt.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 34449-34450
quote_or_summary: An unnamed figure and his forces are taken and cast into the sea;
the figure is called worthy of reprehension.
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 34451-34454
quote_or_summary: Ad is a sign when a destroying wind is sent; it renders what it
touches rotten and reduced to dust.
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 34455-34460
quote_or_summary: Thamud is told to enjoy themselves for a time, transgresses the
Lord's command, is assailed by a terrible noise from heaven, and cannot stand
or save themselves.
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 34461-34462
quote_or_summary: The people of Noah are destroyed before these because they enormously
transgressed.
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 34463-34467
quote_or_summary: God builds heaven with might, stretches forth and spreads earth,
and creates everything in two kinds.
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 34468-34471
quote_or_summary: The speaker commands flight to God, warns against setting up another
god, and calls himself a public warner from God.
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 34472-34476
quote_or_summary: No apostle came to predecessors without being called a magician
or madman; the passage asks whether this behavior was bequeathed and says they
transgress.
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 34477-34480
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told to withdraw and continue admonishing because
admonition profits true believers.
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 34481-34486
quote_or_summary: Genii and men are created only to serve God; God needs no sustenance
or feeding and provides for all creatures with mighty power.
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 34487-34490
quote_or_summary: Those who injure the apostle receive a portion like past wrongdoers;
unbelievers are warned of their threatened day.
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: Extraction is based only on the supplied English passage. Some figures remain
unnamed because the excerpt begins mid-allusion.
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 context was used; unnamed figures were not identified beyond the supplied passage.
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