batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35323-l35422
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35323-l35422
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: ENTITLED, THE INEVITABLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL
GOD. / CHAPTER LVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35323-35422
start: '35323'
end: '35422'
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 praises God as sovereign over heaven and earth, creator, life-giver,
death-giver, and knower of all things. It exhorts belief, almsgiving, and support
for God’s religion, describes covenantal obligation and guidance from darkness
into light, contrasts believers, hypocrites, and unbelievers on a future day,
and depicts believers with light, gardens with rivers, a separating wall and gate,
mercy, hell torment, and rejected ransom. It also states that God quickens the
dead earth and promises doubled reward for acceptable giving.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Whatever is in heaven and earth is said to praise God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God is described as having the kingdom of heaven and earth, giving life, putting
to death, and being almighty.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: God is called the first and the last, the manifest and the hidden, and is
said to know all things.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: God is said to have created the heavens and the earth in six days and then
ascended his throne.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The passage says all things shall return unto God.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The passage urges people to believe in God and his apostle and to give alms
from wealth made theirs as inheritors.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The apostle invites people to believe in their Lord, and the passage says
God has received their covenant concerning this matter.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: God is said to have sent down evident signs to his servant so that he may
lead people out of darkness into light.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Those who contributed and fought before the taking of Mecca are distinguished
in degree from those who did so afterward, though God promises an excellent reward
to all.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Giving to God is described as lending God an acceptable loan that he will
double and reward honorably.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: On a future day, true believers of both sexes are described as having light
running before them and on their right hands.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: True believers are promised good tidings and gardens through which rivers
flow, where they will remain forever.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: Hypocritical men and women ask believers to wait so that they may borrow some
of the believers’ light.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:14
text: A high wall with a gate is set between the hypocrites and believers; inside
is mercy and outside, opposite it, is the torment of hell.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:15
text: The hypocrites call to the believers that they had been with them, and the
believers answer that the hypocrites seduced themselves, waited for believers’
ruin, doubted, and were deceived until God’s decree came and they died.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:16
text: On that day, no ransom is accepted from the hypocrites or unbelievers, and
hell fire is named as their abode.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:17
text: The passage warns believers not to resemble earlier scripture recipients whose
prolonged time of forbearance ended with hardened hearts and wickedness among
many.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:18
text: God is said to quicken the earth after it has been dead.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:19
text: Those who believe in God and his apostles are called men of veracity and witnesses
in the presence of their Lord, and are promised reward and light.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:20
text: Those who do not believe and accuse the signs of falsehood are called companions
of hell.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine figure praised by heaven and earth, sovereign over heaven
and earth, creator, life-giver, death-giver, judge, rewarder, and knower of actions
and hidden things.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:11
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the apostle
description: The apostle invites people to believe in their Lord.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: true believers of both sexes
description: Believers who are shown with light before them and on their right hands
and receive good tidings of gardens with rivers.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:14
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: hypocritical men and hypocritical women
description: A group who ask believers to wait so they may borrow light and who
are separated by a wall from mercy.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: unbelievers
description: Those who do not believe, accuse the signs of falsehood, receive no
ransom, and are associated with hell.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:14
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: almsgivers, both men and women
description: People who give alms and lend God an acceptable loan, for which the
passage promises doubled return and honorable reward.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:13
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: earlier recipients of scripture
description: Those to whom scripture was previously given and whose prolonged time
of forbearance is linked with hardened hearts and wickedness among many.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine sovereign
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to possess the kingdom of heaven and earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: creator and cosmic ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God creates the heavens and earth in six days, ascends the throne, orders
night and day, and knows what enters, leaves, descends, and ascends.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: judge and rewarder
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God promises great or honorable reward, rejects ransom on the future day,
and assigns hell fire to the condemned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:11
- ev:14
- id: role:4
label: messenger inviting belief
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The apostle invites people to believe in their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: righteous recipients of light and reward
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:6
basis: Believers, almsgivers, and those who lend to God are promised light, gardens,
doubled return, and reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: role:6
label: excluded hypocrites
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Hypocrites seek to borrow believers’ light but are separated by a wall and
assigned hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:7
label: condemned unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Unbelievers receive no ransom and are called companions of hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:14
- id: role:8
label: sacred lenders or donors
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The passage describes giving as an acceptable loan to God that will be doubled.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:13
- id: role:9
label: warning example from earlier scripture community
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Earlier scripture recipients are cited as a group believers should not resemble.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: heaven and earth
literal_form: The paired realms over which God has kingdom and which praise God.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: throne
literal_form: God’s throne, ascended after the creation of the heavens and earth
in six days.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: darkness and light
literal_form: Darkness and light used in the statement that signs lead people out
of darkness into light.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: covenant
literal_form: The covenant God has received concerning belief.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: acceptable loan
literal_form: A loan to God that God doubles and rewards.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:13
- id: sym:6
label: believers’ light
literal_form: Light running before true believers and on their right hands on a
future day.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:14
- id: sym:7
label: gardens with rivers
literal_form: Gardens through which rivers flow, promised to believers forever.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: high wall with gate
literal_form: A high wall set between groups, containing a gate; within it is mercy
and outside it is torment.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:9
label: hell fire
literal_form: Hell fire named as the abode deserved by hypocrites and unbelievers.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:14
- id: sym:10
label: dead earth quickened
literal_form: The earth after it has been dead, quickened by God.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Cosmic praise and divine sovereignty
summary: The passage opens by stating that all in heaven and earth praises God,
who owns the kingdom, gives life and death, knows all things, creates the heavens
and earth, ascends the throne, and governs return, night, and day.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Exhortation to belief, covenant, alms, and defense of religion
summary: The audience is urged to believe in God and the apostle, remember the covenant,
accept signs that lead from darkness into light, give alms, contribute, fight
for the faith, and lend God an acceptable loan.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:3
label: Believers and hypocrites on the future day
summary: On a future day, true believers have light and receive good tidings of
gardens with rivers, while hypocrites ask to borrow their light and are told to
return back and seek light.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:4
label: Wall, gate, mercy, and torment
summary: A high wall with a gate separates the groups; within is mercy and outside
is the torment of hell. Hypocrites call to believers and are answered with accusations
of self-deception, doubt, and waiting until God’s decree came and they died.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:5
label: Rejected ransom and hell abode
summary: The passage says that no ransom will be accepted from hypocrites or unbelievers,
and that hell fire is their abode and unhappy destination.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Warning, quickened earth, and final contrast
summary: Believers are warned not to be like earlier scripture recipients with hardened
hearts. God quickens dead earth, almsgivers and believers receive doubled reward
and light, and false accusers are companions of hell.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine judgment separating righteous and condemned
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage depicts a future day in which believers receive light and gardens,
while hypocrites and unbelievers receive no ransom and are assigned hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents doctrinal eschatology rather than a narrative trial
scene.
- id: motif:2
label: Afterlife boundary and guided passage by light
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The future scene includes believers’ guiding light, gardens with rivers,
hypocrites seeking light, and a wall with a gate dividing mercy from torment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a symbolic eschatological tableau, not a detailed itinerary.
- id: motif:3
label: Covenant obligation to believe
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The passage says God has received a covenant concerning belief and asks why
the audience does not believe when the apostle invites them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The covenant is mentioned briefly and not narrated as a covenant-making
event.
- id: motif:4
label: Sacred exchange through alms or loan to God
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Almsgiving and contributing are framed as lending God an acceptable loan
that God doubles and rewards honorably.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The exchange is exhortative and devotional, not a mythic barter episode.
- id: motif:5
label: Darkness-to-light transformation
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: God sends signs so that people may be led out of darkness into light, and
later believers are marked by light while hypocrites lack it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy does not include a specific light/darkness motif
family; duality is a broad fit.
- id: motif:6
label: Reviving dead earth as renewal image
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
- resurrection
basis: The passage states that God quickens the earth after it has been dead, in
a context of signs, judgment, and reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The line explicitly concerns the earth; applying it to resurrection is
contextual and should be reviewed.
- id: motif:7
label: Return of all things to God
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: The passage states that unto God all things shall return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The statement is theological and general, with little narrative development
in this passage.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The future-day scene functions like an afterlife journey or map pattern by
marking movement toward reward through light and by locating mercy and torment
on opposite sides of a gate-bearing wall.
claim_level: same_function
target: afterlife_journey_map motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not provide a full journey itinerary; the claim is
functional and taxonomic only.
- id: claim:2
claim: The acceptable loan to God functions as a sacred-exchange pattern in which
pious giving is returned in doubled and honorable reward.
claim_level: same_function
target: sacred_exchange motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:13
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage frames the exchange as religious exhortation rather than
a narrative transaction between characters.
- id: claim:3
claim: The contrast between believers’ light and hypocrites’ lack of light supports
a broad duality pattern of darkness and light linked to guidance and exclusion.
claim_level: same_function
target: duality motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The taxonomy category is broad; the passage’s specific imagery is light/darkness
rather than an explicit cosmic dualism.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: "“WHATEVER is in heaven and earth singeth praise unto GOD”; God
has the kingdom of heaven and earth, gives life, puts to death, and is almighty."
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: God is described as first and last, manifest and hidden, all-knowing;
he created the heavens and earth in six days, then ascended his throne, and knows
what enters and leaves earth and what descends and ascends from heaven.
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: The passage says the kingdom of heavens and earth belongs to God,
all things return to God, God causes night and day to succeed each other, and
God knows the innermost part of people’s breasts.
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: The audience is urged to believe in God and his apostle and to
give alms from wealth of which God made them inheritors, with a great reward promised
to believers who give.
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: The apostle invites belief in the Lord; God has received a covenant
concerning this matter; God sent evident signs to his servant to lead people out
of darkness into light.
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: The passage urges contribution for God’s religion and distinguishes
those who contributed and fought before the taking of Mecca from those who did
so afterward, while promising an excellent reward to all.
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: "“Who is he that will lend unto GOD an acceptable loan? for he
will double the same unto him, and he shall receive moreover an honourable reward.”"
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: lines 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: On a certain day, true believers of both sexes have light running
before them and on their right hands and receive good tidings of gardens through
which rivers flow, where they remain forever.
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: Hypocritical men and women ask believers to wait so they may borrow
light; the reply tells them to return and seek light; a high wall with a gate
is set between them, with mercy inside and hell’s torment outside.
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 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: Hypocrites call to believers that they had been with them; believers
answer that the hypocrites seduced themselves, waited for believers’ ruin, doubted,
were deceived by wishes until God’s decree came and they died, and were deceived
concerning God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: No ransom is accepted from the hypocrites or unbelievers on that
day; their abode is hell fire, described as deserved and an unhappy journey.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: Believers are admonished to submit their hearts to God’s admonition
and revealed truth and not be like earlier recipients of scripture whose time
of forbearance was prolonged, whose hearts hardened, and many of whom were wicked
doers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: God quickens the earth after it has been dead; the passage says
the signs have been distinctly declared; almsgivers and those who lend God an
acceptable loan will have it doubled and receive honorable reward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 35323-35422
quote_or_summary: Those who believe in God and his apostles are called men of veracity
and witnesses before their Lord and receive reward and light; those who disbelieve
and accuse the signs of falsehood are companions of hell.
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: The extraction is based directly on the provided English passage. Motif assignments
use only the supplied taxonomy references and should be reviewed, especially broad
categories such as duality, return, and resurrection.
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: |-
The supplied passage includes footnotes, including some that appear to refer to surrounding material; extraction emphasizes the Chapter LVII passage content and uses footnote details only where they clarify the provided lines.
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