batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36252-l36326
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36252-l36326
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXV. / ENTITLED, DIVORCE;
REVEALED AT MEDINA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36252-36326
start: '36252'
end: '36326'
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 gives divine regulations for divorce, waiting periods, residence,
support, suckling, and witnesses; warns of judgment on communities that disobey
divine command; describes an apostle bringing believers from darkness to light;
promises gardens with rivers to the righteous; and states that God created seven
heavens and corresponding layers of earth, with divine command descending among
them.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The Prophet is addressed with instructions about divorcing women at an appointed
term and computing that term exactly.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Divorced women are not to be forced from their apartments, nor to leave before
the term expires, except in the case of manifest uncleanness.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: At the end of the term, the parties are instructed either to retain the women
with kindness or part from them honourably, with witnesses of integrity.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Specific waiting terms are given for wives past courses, wives who have not
yet had courses, and pregnant wives.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Divorced women are to be housed according to available space and not pressured
into straits; pregnant women are to be supported until delivery.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: If divorced women suckle children, they are to be paid their hire, and if
difficulty arises another woman may suckle the child.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Those with plenty and those with scanty income are each instructed to spend
according to what God has given them, and no one is obligated beyond ability.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Cities that turned aside from the command of the Lord and his apostles are
said to have faced severe account, grievous chastisement, and perdition.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: God is said to have sent down an admonition and an apostle who rehearses the
clear signs of God.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The apostle’s function is described as bringing believers who do good works
from darkness into light.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: Those who believe and do right are promised entry into gardens beneath which
rivers flow, remaining there forever.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: God is described as creator of seven heavens and as many stories of the earth,
with divine command descending between them.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / the Lord
description: The divine speaker and authority who gives statutes and commands, provides
support, judges disobedient cities, sends an apostle, promises reward, creates
the heavens and earth-stories, and comprehends all things by knowledge.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Prophet
description: 'The addressed figure at the opening of the chapter’s legal instruction:
“O Prophet.”'
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Divorced women / wives
description: Women subject to divorce regulations concerning waiting terms, residence,
pregnancy, delivery, suckling, and maintenance.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Divorcing men / husbands
description: The addressed human parties instructed to divorce at the appointed
term, retain or part honourably, provide housing and support, and spend according
to ability.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Witnesses of integrity
description: Men from among the community who are to bear testimony in divorce proceedings
as in the presence of God.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Cities that turned aside
description: Cities described as having turned aside from the command of the Lord
and his apostles and as receiving account, chastisement, and perdition.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Apostle
description: A messenger sent as an admonition to rehearse God’s clear signs and
bring believers from darkness into light.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: True believers / those who believe and do good works
description: People addressed as believers who receive admonition, are brought from
darkness into light, and are promised gardens with rivers if they do what is right.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Another woman who suckles the child
description: A possible nurse mentioned if difficulty arises concerning the child’s
suckling.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine lawgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage calls the divorce rules the statutes and command of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: divine provider and supporter
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God grants a happy issue, provides from unexpected sources, is sufficient
support, and causes ease to succeed hardship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God brings disobedient cities to severe account, chastisement, perdition,
and severe punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: cosmic creator and knower
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to create seven heavens and corresponding earth-stories, to be
omnipotent, and to comprehend all things by knowledge.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: prophetic addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The legal instruction begins by addressing the Prophet directly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:6
label: regulated divorce parties
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: Women and men are assigned obligations and protections around divorce, waiting
periods, residence, maintenance, and child suckling.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: legal witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Witnesses of integrity are to be taken, and testimony is to be given as in
God’s presence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:8
label: disobedient communities
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The cities are described as turning aside from the divine command and receiving
punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: admonishing messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The apostle rehearses God’s signs and brings believers from darkness into
light.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:10
label: obedient recipients of reward
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Believers who do what is right are led to gardens beneath which rivers flow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:11
label: possible nurse
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Another woman may suckle the child if difficulty arises.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: appointed term
literal_form: A measured waiting period attached to divorce and pregnancy status.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: darkness into light
literal_form: The image of believers being brought from darkness into light through
the apostle’s recitation of signs.
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:3
label: gardens beneath which rivers flow
literal_form: Gardens with rivers flowing beneath them, promised as an enduring
dwelling for believers who do right.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: seven heavens and earth-stories
literal_form: Seven heavens and an equal number of stories of the earth, with divine
command descending between them.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Divorce terms and witnesses
summary: The Prophet is addressed with rules for divorce at an appointed term, residence
during the term, retention or honourable separation, and testimony by witnesses
of integrity.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Waiting periods, housing, and support
summary: Waiting periods are specified for different conditions, and divorced women,
pregnant women, nursing mothers, and possible nurses are to receive housing, maintenance,
or hire according to ability.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Judgment on disobedient cities
summary: Cities that turned aside from divine and apostolic command are brought
to severe account and chastisement, ending in perdition and severe punishment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Admonition and passage from darkness to light
summary: God sends an admonition and an apostle to rehearse clear signs, bringing
believing doers of good from darkness into light and leading them to gardens beneath
which rivers flow.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Layered creation and descending command
summary: God is described as creating seven heavens and corresponding stories of
the earth, while divine command descends between them so that God’s power and
knowledge may be known.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divinely regulated social transition
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Divorce is treated as a transition governed by appointed terms, residence
rules, witnesses, support obligations, and stated divine statutes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is a legal-instruction motif rather than a narrative mythic episode.
- id: motif:2
label: Divine judgment of disobedient communities
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Cities that reject the command of the Lord and his apostles are brought to
account, chastised, and end in perdition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The cities are not named in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: Messenger brings believers from darkness to light
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: An apostle rehearses clear signs of God so that believers who do good works
may be brought from darkness into light.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference to wisdom is based on admonition, signs, and illumination
imagery; the passage itself does not use the term wisdom.
- id: motif:4
label: Righteous rewarded with eternal garden and rivers
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Believers who do right are promised gardens beneath which rivers flow, where
they remain forever.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: No available motif-family reference precisely names paradise reward; the
available symbol reference supports water only.
- id: motif:5
label: Layered cosmos under descending divine command
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: God creates seven heavens and corresponding earth-stories, and divine command
descends between them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a compact cosmological statement without an ascent,
world-center, or journey narrative.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 36256-36262
quote_or_summary: The Prophet is told that when women are divorced, they are to
be put away at their appointed term, the term is to be computed exactly, and the
women are not to be expelled or to leave before the term except for manifest uncleanness;
these are called the statutes of God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 36263-36270
quote_or_summary: At the end of the term, the parties are to retain the women with
kindness or part honourably, take witnesses of integrity, and give testimony as
in God’s presence; those who fear God are promised a happy issue and provision.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 36271-36278
quote_or_summary: The passage gives three-month terms for wives past courses or
without courses, makes the term for pregnant wives last until delivery, and states
that God’s command has been sent down and that fear of God brings ease, expiation,
and increased reward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 36288-36300
quote_or_summary: Divorced women are to dwell in part of the houses available to
the men and not be distressed; pregnant women are to be supported until delivery;
nursing mothers are to be paid; another woman may nurse if needed; spending is
according to means, and God causes ease to succeed hardship.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 36301-36306
quote_or_summary: Many cities that turned aside from the command of the Lord and
his apostles were brought to severe account, suffered grievous chastisement, tasted
the evil consequence of their deeds, and faced perdition and severe punishment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 36307-36312
quote_or_summary: God sends an admonition, an apostle rehearsing clear signs, to
bring believers who do good works from darkness into light; those who believe
and do right are led into gardens beneath which rivers flow forever.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 36313-36316
quote_or_summary: God is said to have created seven heavens and as many stories
of the earth; divine command descends between them so people may know God’s omnipotence
and comprehensive knowledge.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Legal and cosmological details are explicit in the passage. Motif labeling
is cautious because several elements are juridical or theological rather than
narrative. No comparison claims were made because the passage itself does not
supply a comparative target.
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: |-
Used only the provided passage and metadata. Footnote material was not separately modeled except where it clarifies the stated waiting term, because the main extraction focuses on passage-level motifs and symbols.
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