batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35495-l35590
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35495-l35590
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER LVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVIII. /
IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35495-35590
start: '35495'
end: '35590'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an), Sale translation
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage presents a revelation responding to a woman’s complaint about
a divorce formula, establishes expiatory requirements for reversing that formula,
warns opponents of God and the apostle, describes resurrection and divine accounting,
condemns malicious secret counsel, instructs believers in righteous discourse
and assembly conduct, and regulates almsgiving before private consultation with
the apostle.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: God is said to have heard the speech of a woman disputing concerning her husband
and making complaint to God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage rejects a divorce declaration that treats wives as mothers, stating
that mothers are those who brought the men forth.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A man who wishes to repair such a declaration must free a captive before renewed
marital contact.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: If a captive cannot be redeemed, the required alternatives are two consecutive
months of fasting or feeding sixty poor men.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Those who oppose God and his apostle are said to be brought low and to face
ignominious punishment.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: On a certain day God will raise all to life and declare what they have done,
having kept an exact account.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: God is described as knowing whatever is in heaven and earth and as present
with any private discourse, whatever the number of participants.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Certain people are described as returning to forbidden clandestine discourse
involving wickedness, enmity, and disobedience toward the apostle.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Believers are told not to hold private discourse about wickedness, enmity,
or disobedience, but about justice and piety.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Clandestine discourse of the infidels is said to proceed from Satan in order
to grieve believers, though harm depends on God’s permission.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Believers are instructed to make room in the assembly and to rise when told;
God is said to raise believers and those given knowledge to higher degrees of
honor.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Believers are instructed to give alms before private speech with the apostle,
with prayer, legal alms, and obedience required after the precept is dispensed
with.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The deity who hears, sees, forgives, ordains statutes, knows all things,
witnesses all acts, raises the dead, judges deeds, and permits or prevents harm.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:12
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the woman who disputed / Khawla bint Thlaba
description: A woman who disputed with the apostle concerning her husband and made
complaint to God; the note identifies her as Khawla bint Thlaba.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:13
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: her husband / Aws Ebn al Smat
description: The husband involved in the disputed divorce formula; the note identifies
him as Aws Ebn al Smat.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: the apostle / prophet / Mohammed
description: The apostle addressed in the revelation, consulted in the woman’s case,
opposed by unbelievers, and privately approached by believers.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: men who pronounce the divorce formula
description: Those who declare their wives to be as their mothers and may later
seek to repair what they said.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: wives so declared
description: Wives whom some men declare they will regard as mothers, though the
passage states they are not their mothers.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: captive
description: A captive to be freed or redeemed as the first expiatory requirement.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: threescore poor men
description: Sixty poor men to be fed by one unable to fast the required period.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: unbelievers / infidels / those who oppose God and his apostle
description: Opponents who are warned of humiliation, punishment, Hell, and burning;
some are associated with clandestine wicked discourse.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: true believers
description: The believing community instructed about righteous private discourse,
trust in God, assembly conduct, alms, prayer, legal alms, and obedience.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Satan
description: The source from which the clandestine discourse of infidels is said
to proceed, with the aim of grieving believers.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine hearer and witness
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God hears the disputing woman and is described as hearing, seeing, and witnessing
all things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: lawgiver of statutes
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The expiatory requirements are called the statutes of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: resurrecting judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God raises all to life, declares their deeds, and keeps an exact account.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: complainant and disputant
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: She disputes concerning her husband and makes complaint to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:13
- id: role:5
label: husband in divorce dispute
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The note identifies the husband whose formula of divorce caused the case.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:6
label: apostolic authority and recipient of consultation
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The apostle is addressed in the dispute, is opposed by some, and is the person
believers may privately consult.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:7
label: speaker of invalidating formula seeking repair
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage addresses those who declare wives to be as mothers and later
would repair what they said.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: wife wrongly equated with mother
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The passage states that such wives are not mothers in the relevant sense.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:9
label: person released in expiation
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Freeing a captive is required before renewed contact.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:10
label: recipients of expiatory feeding
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Feeding sixty poor men is named as the alternative for one unable to fast.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:11
label: opponents subject to punishment
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Opponents and unbelievers are warned of humiliation, Hell, and burning.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:12
label: instructed faithful community
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Believers receive instructions on discourse, trust, assembly behavior, alms,
prayer, and obedience.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:13
label: instigator of harmful clandestine discourse
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The clandestine discourse of infidels is said to proceed from Satan to grieve
believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: divorce formula equating wife with mother
literal_form: The declaration that a wife will be regarded as the speaker’s mother.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:13
- id: sym:2
label: freeing a captive
literal_form: The release or redemption of a captive before renewed marital contact.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: fasting two consecutive months
literal_form: A two-month consecutive fast as substitute expiation.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: feeding sixty poor men
literal_form: Providing food to sixty poor men as substitute expiation.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: divine presence in private discourse
literal_form: God as fourth among three, sixth among five, and present with any
smaller or larger number.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: Hell and burning
literal_form: Hell as the sufficient punishment into which offenders go down to
be burned.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: making room in the assembly
literal_form: The command to make room in the assembly, paired with God granting
ample room in paradise.
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:8
label: alms before private consultation
literal_form: Alms given before speaking privately with the apostle.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Complaint and revelation over divorce formula
summary: A woman disputes concerning her husband and complains to God; the passage
states that God heard the discourse and rejects the formula equating a wife with
a mother.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:13
- id: scene:2
label: Expiation for repairing the declaration
summary: Those who wish to repair the declaration must free a captive before contact,
or if unable must fast two consecutive months, or if unable to fast must feed
sixty poor men.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Punishment, resurrection, and divine accounting
summary: Opponents are warned of humiliation and punishment; God will raise all
to life, declare their deeds, and has kept an exact account.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Private discourse under divine knowledge
summary: God is said to know all in heaven and earth and to be present with every
private conversation regardless of its number of participants.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Forbidden clandestine counsel and believer instruction
summary: Some return to forbidden clandestine discourse against the apostle and
deride punishment; believers are told to speak privately about justice and piety,
while Satan is named as the source of harmful infidel discourse.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:6
label: Assembly etiquette and alms before consultation
summary: Believers are instructed to make room and rise in assemblies, and to give
alms before private consultation with the apostle; the passage then emphasizes
prayer, legal alms, and obedience.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine hearing of complaint and corrective revelation
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: God hears a woman’s complaint and the revelation corrects a social-legal
practice concerning divorce formulae.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is primarily legal-revelatory rather than narrative myth;
the motif label is functional and requires review.
- id: motif:2
label: expiation through release, fasting, or feeding
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
- sacrifice
basis: Repairing the divorce declaration requires freeing a captive, fasting, or
feeding poor men as prescribed acts before renewed contact.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy does not include a specific expiation or penance
motif; sacred exchange and sacrifice are approximate matches.
- id: motif:3
label: resurrection and exact divine accounting
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- divine_judgment
basis: God raises all to life, declares their deeds, and has kept an exact account
that they themselves have forgotten.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: None beyond the passage’s theological-legal context.
- id: motif:4
label: omniscient divine presence in secret counsel
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- divine_judgment
basis: No private discourse occurs without God being present and later declaring
what was done on the day of resurrection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The wisdom taxonomy reference is approximate; the stronger supported family
is divine judgment.
- id: motif:5
label: Satanic malicious counsel opposed by righteous speech
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Clandestine discourse of infidels proceeds from Satan to grieve believers,
while believers are instructed to speak of justice and piety.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly names satanic counsel or malicious
secret speech.
- id: motif:6
label: paradisal room and raised degrees for obedient believers
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Believers who make room in the assembly are promised ample room in paradise,
and believers and those given knowledge are raised to higher degrees of honor.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The ascent reference is metaphorical or status-oriented in this passage,
not a literal ascent journey.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The note compares the captive-release requirement in this passage with the
requirement for expiation of manslaughter elsewhere in the same translated Quranic
corpus.
claim_level: same_function
target: expiation of manslaughter, referenced in the note to the captive-release
requirement
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is an intra-corpus legal-functional comparison from the translator’s
note, not evidence of historical contact or a broader mythic comparison.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 35495-35590; opening of Chapter LVIII
quote_or_summary: "“GOD heard the speech of her who disputed with thee concerning
her husband, and made her complaint unto GOD.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; divorce-formula ruling
quote_or_summary: The passage says men who declare their wives to be as their mothers
speak falsely, because only those who brought them forth are their mothers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 35495-35590; expiation by captive release
quote_or_summary: Those who would repair the declaration “shall be obliged to free
a captive, before they touch one another.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; substitute expiations
quote_or_summary: One unable to redeem a captive must fast two consecutive months;
one unable to fast must feed sixty poor men.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; warning to opponents
quote_or_summary: Those who oppose God and his apostle will be brought low, and
unbelievers face ignominious punishment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 35495-35590; resurrection and accounting
quote_or_summary: "“GOD shall raise them all to life” and “hath taken an exact account”
of what they have done."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; divine presence in discourse
quote_or_summary: God knows what is in heaven and earth; no private discourse among
three occurs but he is fourth, nor among five but he is sixth, and he is with
any smaller or larger number.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; forbidden clandestine discourse and Hell
quote_or_summary: Some return to forbidden clandestine discourse about wickedness,
enmity, and disobedience toward the apostle; Hell is their sufficient punishment,
where they go down to be burned.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; believer instruction on discourse
quote_or_summary: Believers are told not to speak privately of wickedness, enmity,
or disobedience, but of justice and piety, and to fear God before whom they will
be assembled.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:10
type: quote
locator: lines 35495-35590; Satan and clandestine discourse
quote_or_summary: "“The clandestine discourse of the infidels proceedeth from Satan,”
to grieve true believers, though harm occurs only by God’s permission."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for evidence.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; assembly conduct
quote_or_summary: Believers are told to make room in the assembly and rise when
told; God will grant room in paradise and raise believers and those given knowledge
to higher degrees of honor.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; alms before consultation
quote_or_summary: Believers are told to give alms before speaking privately with
the apostle; after dispensation from the precept they are told to maintain prayer,
legal alms, and obedience to God and the apostle.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; translator note h
quote_or_summary: The note identifies the woman as Khawla bint Thlaba, wife of Aws
Ebn al Smat, and explains that her husband used the pre-Islamic formula “Thou
art to me as the back of my mother,” after which she complained to God in prayer.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence from note.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 35495-35590; translator note l
quote_or_summary: The note says the captive to be freed is, according to the received
decision, a true believer, as ordered for the expiation of manslaughter.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence from note.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit. Motif mapping
is more tentative where legal and ethical material is fitted to broad comparative
taxonomy categories.
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 the supplied passage and metadata were used. Comparison is limited to the explicit intra-corpus note concerning expiation.
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