batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35818-l35898
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35818-l35898
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER LIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LX. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35818-35898
start: '35818'
end: '35898'
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 warns believers not to make secret friendship with hostile
unbelievers, presents Abraham and his companions as an example of renouncing idolatry,
distinguishes just treatment of non-hostile outsiders from forbidden alliance
with hostile dispossessors, and gives rules for testing believing women refugees
and settling marriage dowers. It also refers to resurrection, divine assembly,
and God's judgment.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Believers are told not to take God's enemy and their enemy as friends or privately
show friendship to them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God is described as knowing what people conceal and what they disclose.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The hostile group is said to have rejected the truth, expelled the apostle
and believers from their native city, and to desire that the believers become
unbelievers.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: On the day of resurrection, kindred and children are said not to avail the
believers, and separation from one another is said to occur.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Abraham and those with him are presented as an excellent pattern when they
renounce their people and the idols worshipped besides God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Abraham's promise to ask pardon for his father is marked as an exception to
the example being followed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The believers pray that they not be put to trial by unbelievers and ask God
for forgiveness.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The passage allows kindness and justice toward those who have not fought the
believers because of religion or expelled them from their homes.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The passage forbids friendship with those who have fought the believers because
of religion, dispossessed them, or assisted in dispossessing them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Believing women who come as refugees are to be tried; if known as true believers,
they are not to be sent back to the infidels.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Marriage and dowry restitution rules are given for believing refugee women,
unbelieving husbands, and wives who go over to unbelievers.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The Lord addressed in prayer and described as knowing, seeing, powerful,
forgiving, merciful, mighty, wise, self-sufficient, praiseworthy, and the establisher
of judgment.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: true believers
description: The addressed community instructed about enemies, Abraham's example,
outsiders, and refugee women.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: God's enemy and the believers' enemy
description: A hostile unbelieving group associated with rejecting the truth, expelling
the apostle and believers, and desiring the believers' unbelief.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: the apostle
description: The apostle is said to have been expelled from the believers' native
city.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Abraham
description: A model figure who renounces his people and their idols, trusts in
God, and speaks of being assembled before God.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: those who were with Abraham
description: Companions of Abraham included in the excellent pattern of renouncing
the people and idols worshipped besides God.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Abraham's father
description: The recipient of Abraham's stated intention to beg pardon, while Abraham
says he cannot obtain anything from God on his behalf.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: believing women refugees
description: Women who come to the believers as refugees and are to be tried for
sincerity of faith.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: unbelieving husbands
description: Former husbands of believing refugee women, to whom what they expended
for dowers is to be given.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge and lord
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is invoked as Lord, described as knowing and wise, and his judgment is
established among the community.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: addressed faithful community
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The commands are repeatedly addressed to true believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: hostile unbelieving enemy
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The group rejects the truth, has expelled the apostle and believers, and
is described as hostile if victorious.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: expelled apostle
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The apostle is named among those expelled from the native city.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: exemplary renouncer of idolatry
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: Abraham and those with him are called an excellent pattern when they renounce
the people and idols worshipped besides God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: kinsman excluded from intercessory power
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Abraham says he will beg pardon for his father but cannot obtain anything
of God on his behalf.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: tested refugee believer
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Believing women refugees are to be tried, and if known as true believers
are not to be returned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: recipient of dowry restitution
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The passage instructs that unbelieving husbands be given what they expended
for dowers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: idols worshipped besides God
literal_form: idols
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: straight path
literal_form: path image used for right conduct
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: day of resurrection
literal_form: eschatological day of separation
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: dowers
literal_form: marriage payments to be returned or paid
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Warning against alliance with hostile enemies
summary: Believers are warned not to make friends with hostile unbelievers who rejected
the truth and expelled the apostle and believers; God knows hidden and open actions.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Abraham's exemplary renunciation
summary: Abraham and his companions declare themselves clear of their people and
the idols worshipped besides God, express trust in God, and look toward assembly
before God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Eschatological separation
summary: The passage states that kindred and children will not avail the believers
on the day of resurrection, which will separate them from one another.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:4
label: Rules for hostile and non-hostile outsiders
summary: The passage permits kindness and justice toward outsiders who have not
fought or expelled the believers, while forbidding friendship with those who have
fought and dispossessed them.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Testing refugee women and settling dowers
summary: Believing women refugees are examined for faith, not returned to unbelievers
if sincere, and marriage and dowry payments are regulated as God's judgment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: final divine judgment and resurrection separation
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- resurrection
basis: The passage refers to the day of resurrection, separation from kin, assembly
before God, and God's judgment established among the community.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is legal and exhortative as well as eschatological; the motif
is present through explicit resurrection and judgment language.
- id: motif:2
label: exemplary ancestor renounces idolatrous people
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Abraham and those with him are presented as an excellent pattern for declaring
separation from their people and from idols worshipped besides God until belief
in God alone.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: No specific available taxonomy reference directly covers this Abrahamic
exemplar pattern.
- id: motif:3
label: trial of newcomers for sincere faith
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Believing women who arrive as refugees are to be tried, with God knowing
their faith, before communal and marital decisions are made.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The trial is a legal examination rather than a mythic initiation episode.
- id: motif:4
label: sacred regulation of reciprocal marriage payments
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Dowry restitution and new dowries are prescribed and called the judgment
of God established among the believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The exchange is a juridical marital rule; the broader sacred-exchange
taxonomy fit is tentative.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits the divine judgment and resurrection motif families by explicitly
presenting a day of resurrection, separation from kin, assembly before God, and
God's established judgment.
claim_level: same_motif
target: 'available taxonomy motif families: divine_judgment; resurrection'
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a taxonomy-level comparison only; the passage does not narrate
a detailed afterlife journey.
- id: claim:2
claim: The dowry restitution rules have the function of a sacredly authorized exchange
because the reciprocal payments are grounded in God's judgment.
claim_level: same_function
target: 'available taxonomy motif family: sacred_exchange'
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage frames the matter as communal law, not as a mythic exchange
episode.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 35818-35898, opening commands of Chapter LX
quote_or_summary: Believers are warned not to take God's enemy and their enemy as
friends, because the group disbelieved the truth and expelled the apostle and
believers; God knows what is concealed and disclosed, and such conduct strays
from the straight path.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 35818-35898, warning about enemies and resurrection
quote_or_summary: If the enemies prevail, they will act against the believers and
desire their unbelief; kindred and children will not avail on the day of resurrection,
which separates people from one another.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 35818-35898, Abraham example
quote_or_summary: Abraham and those with him are called an excellent pattern when
they renounce their people and the idols worshipped besides God; Abraham's statement
about asking pardon for his father is excepted, and the prayer states trust in
God and future assembly before him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 35818-35898, prayer and repeated example
quote_or_summary: The believers pray not to be put to trial by unbelievers and ask
forgiveness; the text again states that they have an excellent example for whoever
hopes in God and the last day.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 35818-35898, permission for kindness and justice
quote_or_summary: God may establish friendship between the believers and present
enemies; the passage does not forbid kindness and justice toward those who did
not fight them over religion or expel them from dwellings.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 35818-35898, prohibition regarding hostile dispossessors
quote_or_summary: The passage forbids friendship with those who bore arms against
the believers on account of religion, dispossessed them of homes, or assisted
in dispossession.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 35818-35898, verse marked 10 and following
quote_or_summary: Believing women who come as refugees are to be tried; if true
believers, they are not to be returned to infidels. The passage regulates marriage
lawfulness and dowry reimbursement, calling this the judgment of God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong for the translated passage. Motif classification
is clearest for resurrection and divine judgment; sacred exchange and newcomer
trial are more tentative because the passage is primarily legal and exhortative.
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: |-
Translator notes in the supplied passage give an occasion-of-revelation narrative, but this record focuses on the main translated passage content for motif extraction.
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