batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36592-l36677
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36592-l36677
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXVIII. / ENTITLED, THE PEN;
REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36592-36677
start: '36592'
end: '36677'
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 chapter opens with an oath by the pen and writing, defends Mohammed
against accusations of distraction, promises him reward, warns him not to obey
deniers, describes a wicked slanderer who rejects signs as ancient fables, and
recounts the testing of garden owners whose plan to exclude the poor is overturned
when their garden is destroyed while they sleep. The garden owners recognize their
wrongdoing and seek pardon. The passage contrasts worldly chastisement with the
more grievous chastisement of the next life and states that the pious have gardens
of delight with their Lord.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage begins with an oath by the pen and what is written.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Mohammed is told that, by the grace of his Lord, he is not distracted and
has an everlasting reward prepared for him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The Lord is described as knowing who wanders from his path and who is rightly
directed.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Mohammed is instructed not to obey those who charge him with imposture or
seek accommodation in idolatrous practice.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: A disapproved person is described as a swearer, defamer, slanderer, transgressor,
cruel, wealthy, and having many children.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: When divine signs are rehearsed to the disapproved person, he calls them fables
of the ancients.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says the disapproved person will be stigmatized on the nose.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The Meccans are said to have been tried as the owners of the garden were formerly
tried.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: The garden owners swore they would gather the garden's fruit in the morning
without adding the exception that it would occur if God pleased.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: A surrounding destruction from the Lord encompassed the garden while the owners
slept.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: In the morning the garden had become like a garden whose fruits had been gathered.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: The owners called one another to go early to the plantation and whispered
that no poor man should enter the garden that day.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: When the owners saw the garden blasted and destroyed, they first said they
had mistaken their way, and then recognized it as their own garden.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:14
text: One worthier member reminded the others about giving praise to God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:15
text: The owners confessed that they had been unjust doers and transgressors, blamed
one another, and asked their Lord to pardon them and give a better garden in exchange.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: obs:16
text: The passage states that the chastisement of the next life is more grievous
than the chastisement of this life.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:17
text: The pious are said to have gardens of delight prepared with their Lord.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: The addressed prophet who is defended against the charge of distraction
and told not to obey deniers.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: The Lord / God
description: The divine figure whose grace, knowledge, signs, destruction, pardon,
chastisement, and reward are referenced.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Infidels / those who charge Mohammed with imposture
description: Opponents who will see which party is bereaved of senses and who desire
reciprocal ease or compromise.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Disapproved wealthy slanderer
description: A person described as a common swearer, defamer, slanderer, transgressor,
cruel, wealthy, and dismissive of divine signs.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Meccans
description: The group said to have been tried as the owners of the garden were
formerly tried.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Owners of the garden
description: Owners who plan to gather fruit early and exclude the poor, then find
the garden destroyed and confess wrongdoing.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Poor man
description: A poor person or class of poor persons whom the garden owners say shall
not enter the garden that day.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Worthier member of the garden owners
description: One among the owners who asks whether he had not told them to give
praise to God.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: The pious
description: Those for whom gardens of delight are prepared with their Lord.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Moslems and the wicked
description: Two categories raised in the closing rhetorical question about whether
they should be dealt with alike.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
roles:
- id: role:1
label: vindicated messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Mohammed is told he is not distracted and has an everlasting reward prepared.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: omniscient divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Lord knows who wanders from his path and who is rightly directed, and
the passage distinguishes divine chastisements and rewards.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:3
label: sender of destruction and possible pardon
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The garden's destruction is from the Lord, and the owners beseech their Lord
for pardon and a better garden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: role:4
label: deniers and accusers
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They charge Mohammed with imposture and seek accommodation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: marked rejecter of signs
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: He calls rehearsed signs fables of the ancients and is to be stigmatized
on the nose.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: tested community
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage explicitly says the Meccans have been tried as the owners of
the garden were tried.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: greedy planners
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The owners plan to gather fruit early and exclude the poor from the garden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: repentant wrongdoers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: After the garden is destroyed, they confess injustice and transgression and
seek pardon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:9
label: excluded poor
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The owners whisper that no poor man shall enter the garden that day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: admonishing insider
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The worthier one asks if he had not told them to give praise to God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:11
label: recipients of delight gardens
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Gardens of delight are prepared for the pious with their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:12
label: contrasted moral categories
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The passage asks whether Moslems should be dealt with as the wicked.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: pen and writing
literal_form: pen and what they write
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: divine signs
literal_form: signs rehearsed to the disapproved person
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: stigma on the nose
literal_form: mark or stigma placed on the nose
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: garden and fruit
literal_form: garden, plantation, and fruit to be gathered
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: blasted garden
literal_form: garden blasted, destroyed, and left like one already gathered
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: gardens of delight
literal_form: gardens of delight prepared with the Lord
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Oath by the pen and vindication of Mohammed
summary: The passage opens by invoking the pen and writing, then says Mohammed is
not distracted, has an everlasting reward, and is of noble disposition.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Warning against deniers and wicked slanderer
summary: Mohammed is warned not to obey accusers, and a disapproved slanderer who
rejects signs as ancient fables is described and threatened with a stigma on the
nose.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Trial of the garden owners
summary: The Meccans are compared to garden owners who swear to gather fruit in
the morning without invoking God's will; destruction encompasses the garden while
they sleep.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Plan to exclude the poor
summary: The owners call one another to go early to the plantation and whisper that
no poor man shall enter the garden that day.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Recognition, blame, and plea for pardon
summary: The owners see the blasted garden, recognize it as their own, acknowledge
injustice and transgression, blame one another, and ask God for pardon and a better
garden.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:6
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Worldly and next-life chastisement contrasted with delight gardens
summary: The passage states that worldly chastisement is lesser than the chastisement
of the next life and that the pious have gardens of delight with their Lord.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment on arrogant or greedy wrongdoers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: A slanderer who rejects signs is threatened with a mark, and garden owners
who plan to withhold fruit from the poor lose their garden through destruction
from the Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is a moral exemplum within Qur'anic discourse; broader comparative
placement requires additional texts.
- id: motif:2
label: testing through prosperity and loss
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The Meccans are said to be tried as the garden owners were tried, and the
owners' wealth-bearing garden is lost after their exclusionary plan.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The exact nature of the Meccans' test is not elaborated in this passage
excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: repentance after ruined possession
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: After seeing the destroyed garden, the owners confess injustice and transgression
and seek pardon and replacement from their Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: No explicit statement in the excerpt says whether the request is granted.
- id: motif:4
label: afterlife reward and punishment contrasted
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contrasts chastisement in this life with a more grievous chastisement
in the next, and states that the pious have gardens of delight.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The excerpt gives a contrast of outcomes but not an extended afterlife
journey description.
- id: motif:5
label: revealed writing and prophetic vindication
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The opening oath by pen and writing is followed by the defense of Mohammed's
sanity and moral disposition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference to wisdom is general; the passage does not explicitly
identify a wisdom figure or wisdom quest.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: Within the passage, the Meccans' trial is explicitly likened to the earlier
trial of the garden owners.
claim_level: same_function
target: Meccans and owners of the garden in the same passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an internal analogy stated by the passage, not evidence by
itself for historical contact or a cross-cultural motif relationship.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 36592-36677, opening verses
quote_or_summary: "“BY the pen, and what they write”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 36592-36677, opening verses
quote_or_summary: Mohammed is told that through the grace of his Lord he is not
distracted, that an everlasting reward is prepared for him, and that he is of
noble disposition.
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 36592-36677, opening verses and note d
quote_or_summary: The Lord knows who wanders from his path and who is rightly directed;
Mohammed is told not to obey those who charge him with imposture or want him to
compromise with their practices.
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 36592-36677, verse 10 following
quote_or_summary: The passage describes a person not to be obeyed as a common swearer,
defamer, slanderer, transgressor, wicked, cruel, of spurious birth, wealthy, and
with many children.
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 36592-36677, verse 10 following
quote_or_summary: When signs are rehearsed to this person, he says they are fables
of the ancients; the passage says, “We will stigmatize him on the nose.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation included in summary.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 36592-36677, garden narrative opening
quote_or_summary: The passage says the Meccans were tried as the owners of the garden
were formerly tried, when the owners swore to gather its fruit in the morning
without adding “if it please God.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized with short phrase.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 36592-36677, garden destruction
quote_or_summary: A surrounding destruction from the Lord encompassed the garden
while the owners slept, and by morning it was like a garden whose fruit had been
gathered.
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 36592-36677, owners' morning plan
quote_or_summary: The owners call one another to go early to the plantation and
whisper that no poor man shall enter the garden that day.
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 36592-36677, discovery of garden
quote_or_summary: The owners see the garden blasted and destroyed, first say they
must have mistaken their way, then recognize it as their own and say they are
not permitted to reap its fruit.
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 36592-36677, recognition of wrongdoing
quote_or_summary: The worthier one asks whether he had not told them to give praise
to God; the owners answer with praise and confess that they have been unjust doers.
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 36592-36677, plea after blame
quote_or_summary: The owners blame one another, cry woe, confess transgression,
and say they earnestly beseech their Lord for pardon and perhaps a better garden
in exchange.
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 36592-36677, moral conclusion
quote_or_summary: The passage says this is the chastisement of life, but the chastisement
of the next life is more grievous.
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 36592-36677, closing verses
quote_or_summary: The pious are said to have gardens of delight with their Lord,
followed by a question about whether Moslems should be dealt with as the wicked.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is directly supported by the supplied passage. Motif labels
are limited to available taxonomy and kept general. The single comparison claim
is an internal analogy explicitly stated in the passage.
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. Footnotes about the uncertain letter N and exegetical interpretations were not expanded into motifs because the explanations are multiple and explicitly uncertain.
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