Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36178-l36249

batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36178-l36249

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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36178-l36249
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
  label: ENTITLED, THE HYPOCRITES; REVEALED AT MEDINA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL
    GOD. / CHAPTER LXIV / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36178-36249
  start: '36178'
  end: '36249'
  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: Chapter LXIV, entitled Mutual Deceit, praises God as creator and sovereign,
    contrasts believers and unbelievers, affirms resurrection and final assembly,
    promises gardens with rivers to believers, threatens hell fire for deniers, exhorts
    obedience, trust, forgiveness, almsgiving, and warns that family and wealth can
    be temptations.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: Everything in heaven and earth is said to praise God, whose kingdom and praise
    are his.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: God is described as creator of humans, heavens, and earth, and as the one
    to whom all must go.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: God is described as knowing what is in heaven and earth, what people conceal
    and reveal, and the innermost part of human breasts.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:4
  text: Former disbelievers are said to have tasted evil consequences after rejecting
    apostles who came with evident proofs.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:5
  text: The unbelievers are said to imagine that they will not be raised again, but
    the speaker commands the prophet to say they will surely be raised and told what
    they have done.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:6
  text: God is said to assemble people on the day of the general assembly, called
    the day of mutual deceit.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:7
  text: Those who believe and do right are promised expiation of evil deeds and entrance
    into gardens beneath which rivers flow, remaining there forever.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:8
  text: Those who disbelieve and accuse the signs of falsehood are described as inhabitants
    of hell fire, remaining there forever.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:9
  text: Misfortune is said to happen only by God's permission, and God is said to
    direct the heart of whoever believes.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:10
  text: Believers are told to obey God and the apostle; the apostle's duty is described
    as public preaching.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:11
  text: Believers are warned that wives and children may be an enemy, but are instructed
    to pardon and forgive them.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:12
  text: Wealth and children are described as a temptation, while with God there is
    a great reward.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:13
  text: Believers are commanded to fear God as much as they are able, hear, obey,
    and give alms for the good of their souls.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: obs:14
  text: An acceptable loan to God is promised to be doubled and forgiven.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: God
  description: Divine sovereign, creator, knower of hidden and revealed things, judge,
    forgiver, and rewarder.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  - role:2
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:14
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: believers
  description: Those who believe in God, do what is right, obey, give alms, and are
    promised forgiveness and gardens with rivers.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  - ev:13
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: unbelievers
  description: Those who disbelieve, deny being raised again, accuse signs of falsehood,
    and are assigned to hell fire.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:8
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: apostle
  description: Messenger whose duty is public preaching and who is to be obeyed with
    God.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: former disbelievers
  description: Earlier rejecters who disbelieved after apostles came with evident
    proofs and tasted evil consequences.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: wives and children
  description: Family members described as possible enemies or temptations for believers
    in the passage and footnote.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
  - ev:15
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: wealth
  description: Possessions described as a temptation.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: creator and sovereign
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: God is said to create humans, heavens, and earth, and to possess the kingdom.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
- id: role:2
  label: omniscient knower
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: God is said to know what is hidden, what is divulged, and the innermost part
    of human breasts.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:14
- id: role:3
  label: final judge and rewarder
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: God assembles people, expiates evil deeds of believers, admits them to gardens,
    and assigns deniers to hell fire.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: role:4
  label: rewarded faithful
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: Those who believe and do right are promised expiation and eternal gardens
    beneath which rivers flow.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: role:5
  label: punished deniers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  - fig:5
  basis: Unbelievers reject resurrection or earlier apostles and are linked to punishment
    or evil consequences.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:8
- id: role:6
  label: public preacher
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The apostle's duty is described as only public preaching.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: role:7
  label: temptation or hindrance
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  basis: Wives, children, and wealth are described as enemies or temptations that
    may distract from duty.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
  - ev:15
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: gardens beneath which rivers flow
  literal_form: gardens with rivers flowing beneath them
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: sym:2
  label: hell fire
  literal_form: hell fire
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: sym:3
  label: light sent down
  literal_form: light sent down
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
- id: sym:4
  label: acceptable loan to God
  literal_form: loan to God that is doubled and forgiven
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: sym:5
  label: day of general assembly
  literal_form: day when God assembles people
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Creation and divine knowledge
  summary: The passage states that God created humans, heaven, and earth, gave humans
    forms, and knows both hidden and revealed things.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: scene:2
  label: Rejection by former peoples
  summary: Earlier disbelievers rejected apostles who came with evident proofs and
    experienced evil consequences, with future punishment prepared for them.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: scene:3
  label: Resurrection and assembly
  summary: The prophet is instructed to affirm that unbelievers will be raised and
    told what they have done; God will assemble people on the day of the general assembly.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
- id: scene:4
  label: Divergent afterlife destinations
  summary: Believers who do right are promised forgiveness and eternal gardens with
    rivers, while deniers of signs are assigned to eternal hell fire.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: scene:5
  label: Instruction to believers
  summary: Believers are told to obey God and the apostle, trust God, beware of family
    as possible enemies, forgive, give alms, and lend to God.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:4
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: resurrection and final accounting
  taxonomy_refs:
  - resurrection
  - divine_judgment
  basis: The passage says unbelievers will be raised again and told what they have
    done, and that God will assemble people on a final day.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage is doctrinal exhortation rather than narrative myth.
- id: motif:2
  label: final division of blessed and damned
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: Believers are promised expiation and gardens with rivers, while deniers are
    assigned to hell fire forever.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  confidence: high
  cautions: No detailed judgment trial scene is described in this passage.
- id: motif:3
  label: paradisal garden with flowing rivers
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The rewarded believers are led into gardens beneath which rivers flow and
    remain there forever.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  confidence: high
  cautions: Available taxonomy has a water symbol but no specific paradise-garden
    motif family.
- id: motif:4
  label: family and wealth as tests of fidelity
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Wives, children, and wealth are described as enemies or temptations, and
    believers are exhorted to fear God, obey, and give alms.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This is an ethical warning more than a developed mythic episode.
- id: motif:5
  label: sacred loan repaid by divine multiplication
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_exchange
  basis: A loan made to God is promised to be doubled and forgiven.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The phrase is metaphorical and embedded in exhortation to almsgiving.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 36178-36186
  quote_or_summary: Whatever is in heaven and earth praises God; kingdom and praise
    belong to him, and he is almighty.
  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 36187-36192
  quote_or_summary: God created humans, predestined some as unbelievers and some as
    believers, created heavens and earth with truth, fashioned humans with beautiful
    forms, and to him all must go.
  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 36193-36196
  quote_or_summary: God knows what is in heaven and earth, what people conceal and
    reveal, and the innermost part of men'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 36197-36205
  quote_or_summary: Former disbelievers tasted evil consequences after apostles came
    with evident proofs and they rejected them; future tormenting punishment is prepared
    for them.
  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 36206-36209
  quote_or_summary: Unbelievers imagine they will not be raised again; the prophet
    is told to say that they will surely be raised and told what they have wrought.
  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 36212-36214
  quote_or_summary: God will assemble people on the day of the general assembly, called
    the day of mutual deceit.
  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 36214-36218
  quote_or_summary: Whoever believes and does right will have evil deeds expiated
    and be led into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to remain forever.
  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 36219-36222
  quote_or_summary: Those who do not believe and accuse the signs of falsehood are
    inhabitants of hell fire, 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 36223-36225
  quote_or_summary: No misfortune happens except by God's permission, and whoever
    believes in God has his heart directed by him.
  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 36226-36229
  quote_or_summary: Believers are told to obey God and the apostle; if they turn back,
    the apostle's duty is only public preaching.
  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 36232-36235
  quote_or_summary: True believers are warned that wives and children may be an enemy,
    and are told to beware, yet pardon and forgive them.
  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 36245-36246
  quote_or_summary: Wealth and children are described as only a temptation, while
    with God is a great reward.
  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 36247-36249
  quote_or_summary: Believers are instructed to fear God as much as they are able,
    hear, obey, and give alms for the good of their souls; those preserved from covetousness
    prosper.
  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 36250-36253
  quote_or_summary: If believers lend God an acceptable loan, he will double it and
    forgive them; God knows what is hidden and divulged and is mighty and wise.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
  type: summary
  locator: footnotes b-c following Chapter LXIV
  quote_or_summary: The notes explain that wives and children may distract a person
    from duty, especially in distress, and that their hindrance can proceed from affection
    and ill bearing of absence in war.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
  type: summary
  locator: lines 36210-36211
  quote_or_summary: The passage commands belief in God, his apostle, and the light
    sent down.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
  extraction: medium
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: high
  notes: Extraction uses only the supplied passage and notes. Some supplied line range
    metadata appears to end at 36249, while the passage text includes the final loan-to-God
    sentence after that point; locators are approximated from the supplied text and
    should be checked against the canonical markdown.
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 comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly compare its motifs with another text or tradition.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg__l36178-l36249
  passage_sha256=a8294b3207174e8832d32ccd5ad33df350ca8e08bff847ed12b932de4d5311a7