batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l37868-l37940
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l37868-l37940
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXX. / ENTITLED, HE FROWNED;
REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37868-37940
start: '37868'
end: '37940'
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 rebukes the prophet for turning from a blind seeker while attending
to a wealthy man, describes the Koran as an admonition in pure exalted volumes,
recalls human creation from seed, death, burial, and future raising to life, points
to rain and vegetation as provision, and depicts the trumpet of the last day when
kinship ties are abandoned and faces show joy or condemnation.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The prophet frowned and turned aside because a blind man came to him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage contrasts respectful reception of a wealthy man with neglect of
one who comes earnestly, seeks salvation, and fears God.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The Koran is described as an admonition written in honorable, exalted, pure
volumes by honored and just scribes.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A note identifies the blind man as Abdallah Ebn Omm Mactm and explains that
Mohammed was reprimanded after turning away from him during discourse with principal
Koreish.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: God is said to create man from a drop of seed, form him with proportion, and
facilitate his passage out of the womb.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: God is said to cause man to die, lay him in the grave, and later raise him
to life when it pleases him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The passage describes water poured down by showers, the earth cleft open,
and plants including corn, grapes, clover, olive, palm, thick gardens, fruits,
and grass provided for humans and cattle.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: When the stunning sound of the trumpet is heard, a man flees from brother,
mother, father, wife, and children.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: On that day some faces are bright, laughing, and joyful, while other faces
bear dust and are covered with darkness; the latter are identified as unbelievers
and wicked.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: the prophet / Mohammed
description: The prophet who frowned and turned aside from the blind man; the note
identifies him as Mohammed.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the blind man / Abdallah Ebn Omm Mactm
description: A blind man who came seeking instruction; the note names him Abdallah
Ebn Omm Mactm.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: the wealthy man / principal Koreish
description: The passage mentions a wealthy man respectfully received; the note
refers to principal Koreish whom Mohammed hoped to convert.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: God
description: The creator, commander, provider of food, causer of death, and raiser
of the dead in the passage.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: man / humankind
description: Humanity addressed as created from seed, dying, buried, raised, provided
for, and accountable.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: scribes / angels
description: Honored and just scribes associated with the pure volumes; the note
says the preserved table is touched only by angels.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: family members
description: Brother, mother, father, wife, and children from whom a man flees on
the day of the trumpet.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: unbelievers, the wicked
description: Those whose faces are covered with dust and darkness on that day.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: joyful ones
description: Those whose faces are bright, laughing, and joyful on that day.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: reprimanded prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The prophet is rebuked for frowning and turning aside from the blind man.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: blind seeker of instruction
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The blind man comes earnestly seeking salvation and, according to the note,
asks to be taught what God taught the apostle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: honored wealthy audience
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage says the wealthy man is respectfully received, and the note connects
the scene with discourse among principal Koreish.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: creator, provider, and raiser of the dead
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: God creates man, causes death and burial, raises to life, and provides food
through rain and vegetation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: mortal accountable creature
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Man is described as created from seed, dying, buried, raised, commanded by
God, and facing the day of the trumpet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: sacred transcribers or guardians of pure writings
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The volumes are written by honored and just scribes; the note associates
the preserved table with angels and exclusion of evil spirits.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: kin abandoned at judgment
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: On the day of the trumpet a man flees from named family members.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: condemned wicked unbelievers
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Dusty and darkened faces are identified as unbelievers and wicked.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: joyful recipients on that day
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Some faces are described as bright, laughing, and joyful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: pure exalted volumes
literal_form: honorable, exalted, pure volumes containing the admonition
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: sym:2
label: drop of seed
literal_form: a drop of seed from which man is created
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: grave
literal_form: the grave where man is laid after death
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: water by showers
literal_form: water poured down by showers
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: food-bearing vegetation
literal_form: corn, grapes, clover, olive, palm, thick gardens with trees, fruits,
and grass
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: stunning trumpet sound
literal_form: the stunning sound of the trumpet
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: contrasted faces
literal_form: bright, laughing faces and dusty, darkened faces
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rebuke over the blind seeker
summary: The prophet is corrected for turning from a blind man who comes seeking
admonition while giving respectful attention to a wealthy man.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Description of the written admonition
summary: The Koran is presented as an admonition preserved in honorable, exalted,
pure volumes by honored scribes; the note links this to a preserved table and
angels.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: scene:3
label: Human origin, death, and raising
summary: Man is described as created by God from seed, formed, brought from the
womb, caused to die, placed in the grave, and later raised to life.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Provision of food through rain and growth
summary: 'Humankind is told to consider food: water descends, earth opens, and crops,
fruits, trees, grass, and gardens arise for humans and cattle.'
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Trumpet and final separation
summary: At the trumpet sound, each person is occupied with his own affair and flees
kin; faces then appear either joyful and bright or dusty and darkened.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Admonition to heed the humble seeker
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage rebukes neglect of a blind man seeking salvation and presents
the Koran as admonition retained by the willing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage is primarily moral and revelatory
admonition rather than a narrative wisdom contest.
- id: motif:2
label: Human creation, death, burial, and resurrection
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: God creates man from seed, causes death and burial, and later raises him
to life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: No detailed afterlife journey or geography is described in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: Divine provision through rain and vegetation
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage points to showers, cleft earth, crops, trees, fruits, and grass
as provision for humans and cattle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: No specific available motif family exactly matches agricultural provision;
water and tree are recorded as symbols only.
- id: motif:4
label: Eschatological trumpet and judgment by visible signs
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The trumpet marks a day when kinship ties are abandoned and faces show joy
or darkness, with darkened faces identified as unbelievers and wicked.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives judgment imagery but does not describe a full trial
scene or weighing procedure.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 37874-37883
quote_or_summary: The prophet frowns and turns aside because the blind man comes;
the text contrasts the wealthy man respectfully received with the earnest, God-fearing
seeker neglected.
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 37884-37889
quote_or_summary: The Koran is called an admonition written in honorable, exalted,
pure volumes by honored and just scribes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: note n within lines 37868-37940
quote_or_summary: The note names the blind man Abdallah Ebn Omm Mactm, says he interrupted
Mohammed during discourse with principal Koreish, and explains that Mohammed was
reprimanded and later showed him respect.
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 37909-37917
quote_or_summary: God creates man from a drop of seed, forms him, facilitates birth,
causes death and burial, and later raises him to life.
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 37918-37926
quote_or_summary: 'Man is told to consider food: showers pour down water, earth
is cleft, and grains, fruits, trees, gardens, and grass are produced for people
and cattle.'
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 37927-37933
quote_or_summary: At the stunning sound of the trumpet, a man flees from brother,
mother, father, wife, and children, each person having enough of his own business.
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 37934-37940
quote_or_summary: Some faces are bright, laughing, and joyful; others have dust
and darkness upon them, and are identified as unbelievers and wicked.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: note o within lines 37868-37940
quote_or_summary: The note says the pure volumes are transcribed from a preserved
table, kept from evil spirits, touched only by angels, and sometimes understood
as books of the prophets.
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: Extraction is based on the supplied passage and notes. Motif labels are conservative
and limited to available taxonomy where directly supported. No comparison claims
were added because the passage does not itself establish cross-textual comparison.
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: |-
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