batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36439-l36508
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36439-l36508
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXVI. / ENTITLED, PROHIBITION;
REVEALED AT MEDINA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36439-36508
start: '36439'
end: '36508'
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 addresses domestic conflict involving the prophet, exhorts
believers to repent and protect their families from hell-fire, warns unbelievers
of recompense, describes divine admission of repentant believers to gardens with
rivers and light, commands opposition to infidels and hypocrites, and gives exemplary
similitudes: the unbelieving wives of Noah and Lot, the believing wife of Pharaoh,
and Mary daughter of Imran.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Two addressed women are told that their hearts have swerved and are warned
against joining against the prophet.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God, Gabriel, a good man among the faithful, and the angels are named as the
prophet's patrons or assistants.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Believers are commanded to save themselves and their families from a fire
whose fuel is men and stones.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Angels set over the fire are described as fierce and terrible, obedient to
God's commands.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Unbelievers are told not to excuse themselves and are told they will be rewarded
for what they have done.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Believers are urged to sincere repentance and are promised possible removal
of evil deeds and entry into gardens through which rivers flow.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: On the day described, God will not shame the prophet or those believing with
him; their light will run before them and on their right hands.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The prophet is commanded to attack infidels with arms, oppose hypocrites with
arguments, and treat them severely.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The wives of Noah and Lot are presented as similitudes for unbelievers; they
deceived two righteous servants, and their husbands did not benefit them before
God.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The wives of Noah and Lot are told to enter hell-fire with those who enter
it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: The wife of Pharaoh is presented as a similitude for believers and prays for
a house with God in paradise and deliverance from Pharaoh, his doings, and unjust
people.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Mary daughter of Imran preserved her chastity, received God's spirit breathed
into her womb, believed in her Lord's words and scriptures, and was devout and
obedient.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: A note identifies the wife of Pharaoh as Asia daughter of Mozhem and describes
commentators' account of her torment, angelic shading, vision of a mansion in
paradise, and reception by God or ascent alive into paradise.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine speaker and actor who is patron, commands angels, judges
deeds, forgives, admits believers to gardens, and receives or delivers righteous
figures.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the prophet
description: The prophet is protected by God and assistants, will not be put to
shame with believers, and is commanded to confront infidels and hypocrites.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Gabriel
description: Gabriel is named among the prophet's assistants or supporters.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: angels
description: Angels assist the prophet; angels over the fire are fierce and terrible;
in a note angels shade the wife of Pharaoh with their wings.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: true believers
description: Believers are exhorted to protect themselves and families, repent sincerely,
and are associated with gardens, rivers, and light.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: unbelievers / infidels
description: Unbelievers are warned against excuses, recompensed for deeds, and
associated with hell-fire; infidels are to be attacked with arms.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: hypocrites
description: Hypocrites are to be attacked with arguments and treated severely;
their abode is hell.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: wife of Noah
description: She is named as a similitude for unbelievers, was under a righteous
servant, deceived him, and is told to enter hell-fire.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: wife of Lot
description: She is named as a similitude for unbelievers, was under a righteous
servant, deceived him, and is told to enter hell-fire.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Noah
description: Noah is one of two righteous servants whose wife deceived him; his
relation did not avail her before God.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Lot
description: Lot is one of two righteous servants whose wife deceived him; his relation
did not avail her before God.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: wife of Pharaoh / Asia
description: She is given as a similitude for believers and prays for a house with
God in paradise and deliverance from Pharaoh and unjust people; a note identifies
her as Asia.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Pharaoh
description: Pharaoh is the husband from whom the believing wife asks deliverance,
along with his doings.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Mary daughter of Imran
description: Mary preserved her chastity, received God's spirit breathed into her
womb, believed in God's words and scriptures, and was devout and obedient.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine patron and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is called the prophet's patron, commands angels, recompenses deeds, forgives,
admits to gardens, and assigns entry into hell-fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: protected prophet and commanded warner
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The prophet is supported by God, Gabriel, the faithful, and angels, and is
commanded to oppose infidels and hypocrites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: celestial assistants
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: Gabriel and angels are explicitly named as assistants of the prophet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: guardians over hell-fire
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Angels over the fire are described as fierce, terrible, and obedient to God's
commands.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: repentant faithful
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Believers are urged to sincere repentance and promised possible forgiveness,
gardens, rivers, and light.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: judged opponents
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: Unbelievers and hypocrites are warned of recompense, hell, and severe opposition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: negative spousal exemplars
assigned_to:
- fig:8
- fig:9
basis: The wives of Noah and Lot are similitudes for unbelievers who deceived righteous
husbands and are ordered into hell-fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: righteous servants whose kinship does not save
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: Noah and Lot are called righteous servants, but their husbands' status did
not benefit the wives before God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: positive female exemplars of belief
assigned_to:
- fig:12
- fig:14
basis: The wife of Pharaoh and Mary are presented as similitudes for believers or
as devout, obedient believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: oppressive ruler-husband
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: The wife of Pharaoh asks deliverance from Pharaoh and his doings; the note
describes him tormenting her because she believed in Moses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: hell-fire
literal_form: fire whose fuel is men and stones; hell-fire
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: gardens with rivers
literal_form: gardens, through which rivers flow
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: guiding or vindicating light
literal_form: light running before believers and on their right hands
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: house in paradise
literal_form: a house with God in paradise requested by the wife of Pharaoh
associated_figures:
- fig:12
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: breathed spirit into womb
literal_form: God's spirit breathed into Mary's womb
associated_figures:
- fig:14
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: mansion in paradise
literal_form: mansion prepared for the wife of Pharaoh in paradise, shown during
her torment
associated_figures:
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Warning to the prophet's household and assurance of support
summary: Two women are urged to turn to God and warned not to join against the prophet,
who is supported by God, Gabriel, the faithful, and angels.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Exhortation to avoid hell-fire
summary: Believers are told to protect themselves and their families from a fire
fueled by men and stones and guarded by fierce obedient angels.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Repentance, gardens, and light
summary: Believers are urged toward sincere repentance and are promised forgiveness,
gardens with rivers, and light on the day when the prophet and believers are not
shamed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Judgment of unbelievers and hypocrites
summary: Unbelievers are denied excuses and recompensed for deeds; the prophet is
commanded to confront infidels and hypocrites, whose abode is hell.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Similitude of the wives of Noah and Lot
summary: The wives of Noah and Lot are presented as unbelieving exemplars who deceived
righteous husbands; their marriages do not help them before God, and they are
told to enter hell-fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Similitude of the wife of Pharaoh
summary: The wife of Pharaoh is presented as a believer who prays for a house with
God in paradise and deliverance from Pharaoh and unjust people.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:7
label: Mary as devout believer
summary: Mary daughter of Imran is described as chaste, recipient of God's spirit,
believing in God's words and scriptures, and devoutly obedient.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:8
label: Commentarial account of Asia's suffering and paradise
summary: A note reports that Asia was tormented by Pharaoh, shaded by angels, shown
a mansion in paradise, and then received by God or taken alive into paradise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:12
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment by deeds with hell-fire punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Unbelievers are told they will be rewarded for what they have done, and several
figures or groups are assigned hell or hell-fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage uses 'rewarded' for punishment in context; extraction follows
the supplied translation.
- id: motif:2
label: repentance leading to forgiveness and paradisal admission
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Believers are urged to sincere repentance; God may remove evil deeds and
admit them to gardens with rivers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: No more specific taxonomy reference for repentance is supplied.
- id: motif:3
label: kinship with the righteous does not avert judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The wives of Noah and Lot are under righteous servants, but their husbands
are of no advantage to them before God, and they are sent into hell-fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level motif rather than a supplied named taxonomy family.
- id: motif:4
label: righteous believer within tyrannical household seeks divine refuge
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The wife of Pharaoh asks God for a house in paradise and deliverance from
Pharaoh, his doings, and unjust people; the note adds torment because of belief
in Moses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The main passage gives the prayer; details of torment and ascent are from
translator/commentarial note.
- id: motif:5
label: chaste woman and divine spirit in womb
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_birth
basis: Mary preserves chastity and receives God's spirit breathed into her womb.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The child and birth event are not narrated in this excerpt, so the taxonomy
association is cautious.
- id: motif:6
label: celestial assistance to a prophet
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: God, Gabriel, the faithful, and angels are named as the prophet's patron
or assistants.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family exactly matches angelic or prophetic assistance.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The wives of Noah and Lot are explicitly paired as similitudes for unbelievers,
sharing the function of negative exemplars whose righteous spouses cannot save
them from judgment.
claim_level: same_function
target: wife of Noah and wife of Lot as paired unbelieving spouses
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the explicit comparison made inside this passage.
- id: claim:2
claim: The wife of Pharaoh and Mary are presented in sequence as positive exemplars
for believers, contrasting with the preceding wives of Noah and Lot.
claim_level: same_function
target: wife of Pharaoh and Mary as exemplary believing women
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The wife of Pharaoh is explicitly called a similitude for believers;
Mary is introduced with 'and' and described as devout, but the comparison is structural
rather than stated with the same formula.
- id: claim:3
claim: 'The passage contrasts two paired patterns of women in relation to household
status: unbelieving wives of righteous men are condemned, while believing women
associated with Pharaoh''s household and Imran''s line are honored.'
claim_level: same_motif
target: contrasting female exempla of unbelief and belief within household or lineage
relations
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is an internal literary comparison; it does not establish historical
contact or common inheritance beyond the passage.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: 36439-36444
quote_or_summary: If the two women join against the prophet, 'GOD is his patron;
and Gabriel... and the angels also are his assistants'; God can replace wives
if he divorces them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: 36445-36449
quote_or_summary: Believers are told to save themselves and families 'from the fire
whose fuel is men and stones,' over which are fierce obedient angels.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: 36450-36451
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers are told not to excuse themselves and that they will
be rewarded for what they have done.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 36452-36458
quote_or_summary: Believers are urged to sincere repentance; God may remove evil
deeds, admit them to gardens with rivers, and grant light before them and on their
right hands.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 36459-36461
quote_or_summary: The prophet is commanded to attack infidels with arms and hypocrites
with arguments; their abode is hell, described as an ill journey.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 36462-36468
quote_or_summary: 'God gives the wives of Noah and Lot as a similitude for unbelievers:
they deceived two righteous servants, their husbands did not avail them before
God, and they are told to enter hell-fire.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 36469-36472
quote_or_summary: God gives the wife of Pharaoh as a similitude for believers; she
prays for a house with God in paradise and deliverance from Pharaoh, his deeds,
and unjust people.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 36473-36476
quote_or_summary: Mary daughter of Imran preserved chastity; God breathed of his
spirit into her womb; she believed in God's words and scriptures and was devout
and obedient.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: 36491-36503
quote_or_summary: A note identifies Pharaoh's wife as Asia daughter of Mozhem and
relates that she was tormented for belief in Moses, shaded by angels, shown her
mansion in paradise, and received by God or taken alive into paradise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from public domain note.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The main passage is clear for judgment, repentance, hell-fire, paradise,
and exemplar patterns. Motif taxonomy mappings beyond divine judgment and sacred
birth are cautious because available taxonomy labels are broad.
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 supplied passage text and metadata. Footnote material was treated as passage-supplied note evidence where cited.
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