batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36754-l36875
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l36754-l36875
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXIX. / ENTITLED, THE INFALLIBLE;
REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36754-36875
start: '36754'
end: '36875'
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: On that day ye shall be presented before the judgment-seat of God; and none
of your secret actions shall be hidden.
summary: The passage announces the inevitable day of judgment, recalls destroyed
peoples and the ark during the deluge, describes cosmic upheaval, presentation
before God, reward for the person receiving a book in the right hand, punishment
for the person receiving a book in the left hand, and affirms the revelation as
true.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage names the coming event as the infallible and describes it as a
day that strikes hearts with terror.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:2
text: Thamud are said to have been destroyed by a terrible noise.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:3
text: Ad are said to have been destroyed by a roaring, furious wind lasting seven
nights and eight days.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Pharaoh, prior peoples, and overthrown cities are described as sinful and
disobedient to the apostle of their Lord, and therefore chastised.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: When the deluge water rose, the addressed people are said to have been carried
in an ark that swam on it as a memorial.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: One blast of the trumpet is followed by the earth being moved, mountains dashed
in pieces, the heavens split and fallen apart, angels at the sides, and eight
bearing the Lord's throne.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: People are presented before God's judgment-seat and no secret actions are
hidden.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The person whose book is delivered into his right hand rejoices over his account
and receives life in a lofty garden with near fruits and permitted food and drink.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The person whose book is delivered into his left hand laments receiving the
book and account, says his riches and power have not profited him, and is ordered
to be bound, burned in hell, and put in a chain of seventy cubits.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: obs:10
text: The punished person is said to have disbelieved in God and not been solicitous
to feed the poor.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The discourse is identified as that of an honourable apostle and as a revelation
from the Lord of all creatures, not the speech of a poet or soothsayer.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: If Mohammed had forged any part of the discourses concerning God, God would
have seized him and cut the vein of his heart.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: The divine figure who destroys, chastises, judges, commands punishment,
reveals, and is named as the great God.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Thamud
description: A tribe that denied the terrifying day and was destroyed by a terrible
noise.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Ad
description: A tribe that denied the terrifying day and was destroyed by a furious
wind.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Pharaoh and those before him
description: Figures grouped with overthrown cities as sinful and disobedient to
the apostle of their Lord.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: People carried in the ark
description: The addressed collective carried in the ark when the water of the deluge
arose.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Angels
description: Angels located at the sides of the sundered heavens on the day of judgment.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Eight throne-bearers
description: Eight beings who bear the throne of the Lord above them on that day.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Person receiving the book in the right hand
description: A judged person who receives his book in his right hand and enters
a pleasing life in a lofty garden.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Person receiving the book in the left hand
description: A judged person who receives his book in his left hand, laments, and
is punished in hell.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Keepers of hell
description: Agents commanded by God to seize, bind, burn, and chain the condemned
person.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Honourable apostle
description: The discourse is called the discourse of an honourable apostle.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: Named in a conditional statement about forging any part of the divine
discourses.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge and revealer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God presents people for judgment, gives commands concerning punishment, and
is named as source of revelation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:2
label: destroyed disobedient people
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: These groups or figures are described as denying, sinning, disobeying, and
being destroyed or chastised.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: ark-borne survivors or memorial recipients
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They are carried in the ark when the deluge water rises, and the event is
made a memorial.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: heavenly beings at cosmic rupture
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Angels are placed at the sides of the heavens when the heavens cleave and
fall in pieces.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: bearers of the Lord's throne
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Eight are said to bear the throne of the Lord on that day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: approved account-holder
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Receiving the book in the right hand is followed by confidence about the
account and garden reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: condemned account-holder
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Receiving the book in the left hand is followed by lament and hell punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:8
label: punishment executors
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The keepers of hell are commanded to take, bind, cast, and chain the condemned
person.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:9
label: authorized messenger of discourse
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The passage says the discourse is that of an honourable apostle and not a
poet or soothsayer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:10
label: prophet under divine sanction
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Mohammed is named in a conditional assertion that forged discourse would
bring divine punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: deluge water
literal_form: water of the deluge
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: ark
literal_form: ark swimming on the risen deluge water
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: trumpet blast
literal_form: one blast sounding the trumpet
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: moved earth and shattered mountains
literal_form: earth moved from its place and mountains dashed in pieces
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: split heavens
literal_form: heavens cleft in sunder and fallen in pieces
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: Lord's throne borne by eight
literal_form: the throne of thy Lord borne by eight
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: book of account in right hand
literal_form: book delivered into the right hand
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: book of account in left hand
literal_form: book delivered into the left hand
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:9
label: lofty garden and near fruits
literal_form: lofty garden with fruits near to gather
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:10
label: seventy-cubit chain
literal_form: chain of the length of seventy cubits
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:11
label: hell burning
literal_form: hell where the condemned is cast to be burned
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Destroyed peoples as warnings
summary: Former peoples, including Thamud, Ad, Pharaoh, and overthrown cities, deny
or disobey and are destroyed or chastised.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Deluge and ark memorial
summary: When the deluge water rises, the addressed people are carried in an ark,
and the event is made a memorial for retention.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Cosmic rupture before judgment
summary: A trumpet blast is followed by the earth being moved, mountains shattered,
the heavens split, angels at the sides, and eight bearing the Lord's throne.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Presentation before God's judgment-seat
summary: People are brought before God's judgment-seat, and no secret actions are
hidden.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Right-hand account and garden reward
summary: The person receiving the book in his right hand announces his account and
is granted a pleasing life in a lofty garden with accessible fruit and food and
drink.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: Left-hand account and hell punishment
summary: The person receiving the book in his left hand laments his account and
worldly power, then is ordered bound, burned in hell, and chained.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Vindication of revelation
summary: The discourse is distinguished from poetry and soothsaying, called revelation
from the Lord, and a hypothetical forgery by Mohammed is answered with threatened
divine punishment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:11
- fig:12
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: final divine judgment with disclosed accounts
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage centers on a day when people are presented before God's judgment-seat,
hidden actions are exposed, books of account are received, and reward or punishment
follows.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The extraction uses the taxonomy label broadly for the passage's explicit
eschatological judgment scene.
- id: motif:2
label: deluge rescue by ark
taxonomy_refs:
- flood_and_renewal
- ark_vessel
basis: Risen deluge water and carrying in an ark are explicitly stated, with the
event made a memorial.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is brief and does not narrate the full flood story here.
- id: motif:3
label: cosmic dissolution at the last day
taxonomy_refs:
- chaos
basis: The trumpet blast is followed by displacement of the earth, shattering of
mountains, and the heavens splitting and falling apart.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy lacks a precise non-fire cosmic destruction category;
'chaos' is an approximate broad family.
- id: motif:4
label: afterlife destinations of garden and hell
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: 'The judged figures are directed toward contrasting post-judgment states:
a lofty garden with food and drink, or hell with chains and corrupt food.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents destinations and outcomes, not a detailed journey
itinerary.
- id: motif:5
label: resurrection and accounting at the last day
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The translator's note identifies the day as verifying resurrection, being
brought to account, and consequent rewards and punishments; the main passage narrates
the account and rewards or punishments.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: Resurrection is explicit in the note and implied by the judgment account
in the main passage rather than narrated as bodily rising in this excerpt.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; translator note u
quote_or_summary: The note explains that al Hkkat is an epithet of the day of judgment
and says it verifies resurrection, account, rewards, and punishments.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 36754-36875; opening of Chapter LXIX
quote_or_summary: '"The infallible! What is the infallible?"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; passage after note u
quote_or_summary: Thamud and Ad deny the terrifying day; Thamud are destroyed by
a terrible noise, and Ad by a furious wind over seven nights and eight days.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; verse marker 10 vicinity
quote_or_summary: Pharaoh, prior peoples, and overthrown cities are called sinful
and disobedient to the apostle of their Lord, so God chastises them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 36754-36875; after verse marker 10
quote_or_summary: '"When the water of the deluge arose, we carried you in the ark
which swam thereon"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; cosmic judgment sequence
quote_or_summary: One trumpet blast sounds; earth and mountains are struck and displaced;
the inevitable judgment comes; heavens split and fall; angels stand at the sides;
eight bear the Lord's throne.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 36754-36875; judgment-seat statement
quote_or_summary: '"On that day ye shall be presented before the judgment-seat of
God; and none of your secret actions shall be hidden."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; short excerpt.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; verse marker 20 vicinity
quote_or_summary: The person receiving his book in the right hand invites others
to read it, says he expected his account, and is given pleasant life in a lofty
garden with near fruits and food and drink.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; verse markers 20-30 vicinity
quote_or_summary: The person receiving his book in the left hand wishes he had not
received or known the account, wishes death had ended him, and says his riches
and power are gone.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; verse marker 30 vicinity
quote_or_summary: God tells the keepers of hell to take, bind, burn, and chain the
condemned person with a seventy-cubit chain because he did not believe in God
and did not feed the poor; he has no friend and only corrupt food.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; verse marker 40 vicinity
quote_or_summary: The discourse is said to be that of an honourable apostle, not
a poet or soothsayer, and is called a revelation from the Lord of all creatures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 36754-36875; final section
quote_or_summary: If Mohammed had forged part of the discourses concerning God,
God would have taken him by the right hand and cut the vein of his heart; the
book is an admonition to the pious and truth of certainty.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is strong for judgment, ark, cosmic rupture, and reward/punishment.
Some taxonomy mapping, especially chaos and afterlife_journey_map, is approximate
and should be reviewed.
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 does not itself establish a comparative-historical relationship beyond internal references and translator notes.
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