batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35739-l35815
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35739-l35815
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER LVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LIX. / IN
THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35739-35815
start: '35739'
end: '35815'
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 praises believers in Medina who receive refugees and prefer
them despite need; records a prayer by later believers; condemns hypocrites who
promise aid to unbelieving people of scripture but will abandon them; compares
their deception to the devil disavowing a man he led into unbelief; warns believers
to fear God and prepare for the next life; contrasts inhabitants of hell fire
and paradise; presents a similitude of the Koran humbling and splitting a mountain;
and closes with divine names and universal praise of God.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Believers already settled in Medina love those who fled to them and prefer
them over themselves despite indigence.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Later believers ask God to forgive them and their believing predecessors and
to remove ill-will from their hearts toward believers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Hypocrites tell unbelieving recipients of scripture that they will accompany
them if expelled and assist them if attacked.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: God is said to witness that the hypocrites are liars and that they will not
fulfill their promises of aid.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The opponents are described as fearing the believers because of terror cast
into their breasts from God.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The opponents will fight only in fenced towns or from behind walls; they appear
united, but their hearts are divided.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The hypocrites are compared to the devil, who tells a man to be an infidel
and then disavows him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The end of the deceiver and the deceived is described as dwelling forever
in hell fire.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Believers are told to fear God and consider what the soul sends ahead for
the morrow.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Those who forget God are described as being made to forget their own souls.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: The inhabitants of hell fire and the inhabitants of paradise are said not
to be equal.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: If the Koran had been sent down on a mountain, the mountain would humble itself
and cleave apart from fear of God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: God is described by names and attributes including King, Holy, Giver of peace,
Faithful, Guardian, Powerful, Creator, Maker, Former, Mighty, and Wise.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:14
text: Whatever is in heaven and earth is said to praise God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Believers settled in Medina
description: Those who possessed the town of Medina, professed faith, loved the
refugees, and preferred them over themselves.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:10
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Mohajern / those who fled
description: Refugees who fled to the believers in Medina; the note identifies them
with converts from Mecca.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:10
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Later believers
description: Those who came after earlier believers and prayed for forgiveness and
freedom from ill-will.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:10
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Hypocrites
description: Those who promise support to unbelieving people of scripture but are
declared liars and are compared to the devil’s deception.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Unbelieving recipients of scripture
description: The group addressed by the hypocrites; the note identifies them as
Jews of the tribe of al Nadr.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: God
description: Divine speaker and judge who witnesses falsehood, casts terror, commands
fear of God, and is described by many names and attributes.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Devil
description: A deceiver in the similitude who tells a man to become an infidel and
then disavows him.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Man made an infidel
description: A man in the similitude who becomes an infidel after the devil’s urging.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: True believers
description: Those addressed with commands to fear God and consider what the soul
sends before for the morrow.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Inhabitants of hell fire
description: A group contrasted with inhabitants of paradise.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Inhabitants of paradise
description: A group said to enjoy felicity and contrasted with inhabitants of hell
fire.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: altruistic host believers
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: They love those who fled to them and prefer them before themselves despite
indigence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: refugee believers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They are the people who fled to Medina and received aid from the settled
believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: petitioning successors in faith
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They ask God to forgive them and earlier believers and to remove ill-will.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: false allies
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: They promise aid and shared exile, but God is witness that they are liars.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: threatened allies of hypocrites
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They are told by the hypocrites that they will be aided if expelled or attacked.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: divine witness, judge, and creator
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: God witnesses the liars, casts terror, commands moral preparation, and is
called Creator, Maker, Former, Mighty, and Wise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:7
label: tempter and disavower
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The devil urges a man to unbelief and then declares himself clear of him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: deceived unbeliever
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The man becomes an infidel after the devil’s urging in the similitude.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: admonished believers
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: They are commanded to fear God and look to what is sent ahead for the morrow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:10
label: condemned afterlife inhabitants
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: They are contrasted with the inhabitants of paradise and linked to hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: blessed afterlife inhabitants
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: They are identified as enjoying felicity in paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: hell fire
literal_form: hell fire
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: sym:2
label: paradise
literal_form: paradise
associated_figures:
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: the morrow
literal_form: morrow, glossed as the next life in the note
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: sym:4
label: mountain humbled by revelation
literal_form: mountain humbling itself and cleaving in sunder if the Koran were
sent down upon it
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: Koran sent down
literal_form: the Koran sent down in a similitude
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: fenced towns and walls
literal_form: fenced towns and walls from behind which opponents fight
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:7
label: divided hearts
literal_form: hearts are divided
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Reception of refugees in Medina
summary: Settled believers in Medina love the refugees and prefer them over themselves
despite their own need.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:10
- id: scene:2
label: Prayer of later believers
summary: Later believers ask God to forgive them and earlier believers and to remove
ill-will toward believers.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: False promise of support
summary: Hypocrites promise unbelieving recipients of scripture that they will share
exile and assist in attack, but God declares the promise false.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: scene:4
label: Fortified resistance and inward division
summary: Opponents are described as fearful, willing to fight only in fortified
settings, outwardly united but inwardly divided.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Devil’s similitude and punishment
summary: The hypocrites’ deception is likened to the devil urging a man to unbelief
and then disavowing him; both end in hell fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Admonition to prepare for the next life
summary: True believers are told to fear God, consider what the soul sends ahead
for the morrow, and avoid forgetting God.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Contrast of hell fire and paradise
summary: The inhabitants of hell fire and the inhabitants of paradise are contrasted,
and the latter are said to enjoy felicity.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Koran and the mountain similitude
summary: A similitude states that if the Koran had been sent down on a mountain,
the mountain would humble itself and split apart from fear of God.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:9
label: Divine names and cosmic praise
summary: God is named with royal, holy, protective, powerful, creative, and wise
attributes, and all in heaven and earth is said to praise him.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: altruistic reception of refugees by fellow believers
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Medina believers love those who fled to them and prefer them before themselves
despite indigence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames this as communal virtue rather than a mythic journey
episode.
- id: motif:2
label: successors praying for purified communal memory
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Later believers ask forgiveness for themselves and their predecessors and
ask that ill-will not be placed in their hearts toward believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a devotional and communal motif; no specific taxonomy reference
is supplied.
- id: motif:3
label: false alliance and abandoned allies
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The hypocrites promise to accompany and assist their brethren but are declared
liars who will not fulfill the promise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: No historical-contact or broader comparative claim is made from this passage
alone.
- id: motif:4
label: outer unity concealing divided hearts
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The opponents are said to appear united while their hearts are divided.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The duality is moral and social rather than cosmological.
- id: motif:5
label: tempter disavows the tempted
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The devil tells a man to become an infidel and then declares himself clear
of him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: Although the devil is a deceiver figure, the passage does not itself require
classification under a trickster taxonomy.
- id: motif:6
label: afterlife recompense of unjust and blessed
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The unjust are assigned to hell fire forever, while the inhabitants of paradise
are contrasted as enjoying felicity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes judgment and recompense; it does not narrate an
afterlife journey.
- id: motif:7
label: moral preparation for the next life
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Believers are told to consider what the soul sends before for the morrow,
glossed in the note as the next life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is admonitory rather than narrative.
- id: motif:8
label: revelation so weighty that a mountain would split
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage says a mountain would humble itself and cleave apart from fear
of God if the Koran were sent down on it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The statement is explicitly presented as a similitude, not as an event
that occurs in the passage.
- id: motif:9
label: universal praise of the creator
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: God is named Creator, Maker, Former, Mighty, and Wise, and whatever is in
heaven and earth praises him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference to wisdom is supported by the explicit divine title
'Wise' but is broad.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 35739-35743
quote_or_summary: Believers settled in Medina love those who fled to them, bear
no want toward what is given the Mohajern, and prefer them despite indigence.
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 35744-35747
quote_or_summary: Those who came after ask God to forgive them and their predecessors
in faith and not place ill-will in their hearts toward believers.
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 35748-35757
quote_or_summary: Hypocrites promise unbelieving recipients of scripture that they
will share expulsion and provide assistance if attacked; God witnesses that they
are liars and says they will not do so.
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 35758-35764
quote_or_summary: Terror from God is cast into the opponents' breasts; they will
fight only in fenced towns or from behind walls; they seem united but their hearts
are divided.
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 35765-35773
quote_or_summary: After mention of earlier punished groups, the hypocrites' deception
is likened to the devil telling a man to become an infidel and then disavowing
him; both end in hell fire forever.
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 35774-35778
quote_or_summary: True believers are commanded to fear God, consider what a soul
sends ahead for the morrow, and not be like those who forgot God and were made
to forget their own souls.
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 35779-35780
quote_or_summary: The inhabitants of hell fire and the inhabitants of paradise are
not equal; the inhabitants of paradise enjoy felicity.
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 35781-35783
quote_or_summary: A similitude says that if the Koran had been sent down on a mountain,
it would humble itself and split apart from fear of God.
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 35784-35807
quote_or_summary: God is described as the only God, knower of future and present,
Merciful, King, Holy, Giver of peace, Faithful, Guardian, Powerful, Strong, Most
High, Creator, Maker, Former, Mighty, and Wise; all in heaven and earth praises
him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: note
locator: notes within lines 35787-35800
quote_or_summary: Notes identify the Medina believers as Ansars, the Mohajern as
converts from Mecca, the people of scripture as Jews of al Nadr, and the 'morrow'
as the next life.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized note material.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied Sale translation passage and notes.
Motif labels are conservative; comparison claims are omitted because the passage
does not itself establish cross-textual comparison.
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: |-
Public-domain passage summarized rather than extensively quoted. Taxonomy references are limited to the supplied available list.
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