batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l38132-l38188
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l38132-l38188
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: ENTITLED, THOSE WHO GIVE SHORT MEASURE OR WEIGHT; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN
THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST
MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38132-38188
start: '38132'
end: '38188'
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 describes cosmic disruption, humanity's labor toward meeting
the Lord, divergent accounts and afterlife outcomes for those receiving their
book in the right hand or behind the back, an oath by evening sky, night, and
full moon, successive transfer from state to state, denial of resurrection by
unbelievers, and reward for those who believe and do good works.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Heaven is described as being rent in sunder and obeying its Lord.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Earth is described as being stretched out, casting forth what is within it,
remaining empty, and obeying its Lord.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Man is addressed as laboring toward meeting the Lord and is told he will meet
him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A person whose book is given into his right hand is called to an easy account
and returns to his family with joy.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: A person whose book is given behind his back invokes destruction and is sent
into hell to be burned.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The condemned person had rejoiced insolently among his family on earth and
thought he would never return to God.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker swears by the redness of the sky after sunset, by night and what
it gathers, and by the full moon.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The hearers are told they will be transferred successively from state to state;
Sale's note glosses this as movement from living, to dead, to new life in another
world.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The passage asks why some do not believe the resurrection or humble themselves
when the Koran is read.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Unbelievers accuse the Koran of imposture, while God is said to know what
they hide in their breasts.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Those who believe and do good works are excepted from the denunciation of
punishment and are promised a never-failing reward.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: the Lord / God
description: The divine being whom heaven and earth obey, whom man will meet, who
beholds and knows what is hidden, and who prepares reward or punishment.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: man
description: Humanity or the addressed human being, described as laboring toward
meeting the Lord.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: recipient of the book in the right hand
description: A person whose book is given into his right hand and who receives an
easy account and joyful return to family.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: recipient of the book behind the back
description: A person whose book is given behind his back and who is sent into hell
to be burned.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: unbelievers
description: Those who do not believe the resurrection and accuse the Koran of imposture.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: those who believe and do good works
description: Those excepted from the grievous punishment and promised a never-failing
reward.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge and knower
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Lord is met by humanity, beholds the one who denied return, knows hidden
malice, and is associated with punishment and reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:2
label: human laborer toward divine meeting
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressed human is said to labor toward meeting the Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: favorably accounted recipient
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Receiving the book in the right hand leads to an easy account and joyful
return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: condemned recipient
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Receiving the book behind the back leads to invocation of destruction and
burning in hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: deniers of resurrection and scripture
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They do not believe the resurrection and accuse the Koran of imposture.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:6
label: rewarded believers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Those who believe and do good works are promised a never-failing reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: rending of heaven
literal_form: heaven rent in sunder
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: emptied earth
literal_form: earth stretched out and casting forth what is within it
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: book in the right hand
literal_form: book given into the right hand
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: book behind the back
literal_form: book given behind the back
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: hell burning
literal_form: sent into hell to be burned
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: evening redness, night, and full moon
literal_form: redness of the sky after sunset; night; moon in the full
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: successive states
literal_form: transfer from state to state
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Cosmic rending and emptying
summary: Heaven is rent and earth is stretched out and emptied, both obeying the
Lord.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Human meeting and account
summary: Humanity is told it labors toward meeting the Lord; one recipient of the
book receives an easy account and joy, while another receives condemnation and
hell burning.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Oath by celestial signs and transition of states
summary: The speaker invokes evening sky, night, and the full moon, then states
that the hearers will be transferred from state to state.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: Denial, punishment, and reward
summary: Unbelievers deny resurrection and accuse the Koran of imposture, while
believers who do good works are promised a never-failing reward.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: cosmic dissolution before judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage links the rending of heaven and emptying of earth with human
meeting of the Lord and divergent judgment outcomes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage gives eschatological signs
and judgment but not a full narrative sequence.
- id: motif:2
label: book of account determining afterlife fate
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The book is delivered differently to two people, followed by easy account
and joy for one, and destruction and hell burning for the other.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not detail the contents of the book, only its delivery
and outcomes.
- id: motif:3
label: resurrection or renewed life after death
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage explicitly asks why they do not believe the resurrection and
describes successive transfer from life to death to another-worldly life in Sale's
note.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The note supplies the explicit gloss for the sequence of states.
- id: motif:4
label: return to God after earthly denial
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: The condemned person thought he would never return to God, but the Lord beheld
him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The return is theological and eschatological; it is not a journey narrative
in the passage.
- id: motif:5
label: reward for belief and good works
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Those who believe and do good works are excepted from punishment and receive
a never-failing reward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: This is a concise doctrinal statement rather than an extended mythic episode.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV opening
quote_or_summary: Heaven shall be rent in sunder and shall obey its Lord.
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 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV opening
quote_or_summary: Earth shall be stretched out, cast forth what is within it, remain
empty, and obey its Lord; Sale notes mountains and hills are levelled and hidden
treasures and dead bodies are cast out.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV
quote_or_summary: "“O man, verily laboring thou laborest to meet thy LORD, and thou
shalt meet him.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV
quote_or_summary: The one whose book is given into his right hand receives an easy
account and turns to his family with joy.
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 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV
quote_or_summary: The one whose book is given behind his back invokes destruction
and is sent into hell to be burned; Sale notes this means into the left hand,
with the hand bound behind the back.
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 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV
quote_or_summary: The condemned one rejoiced insolently among his earthly family,
thought he would never return to God, and yet his Lord beheld him.
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 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV
quote_or_summary: The speaker swears by the redness of the sky after sunset, the
night and what it drives together, and the full moon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV and note u
quote_or_summary: The hearers will be transferred successively from state to state;
Sale glosses this as from living to dead, and from dead to new life in another
world.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV
quote_or_summary: The passage asks why they do not believe the resurrection and
do not worship or humble themselves when the Koran is read.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV
quote_or_summary: Unbelievers accuse the Koran of imposture, but God knows what
they hide in their breasts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 38132-38188; Chapter LXXXIV ending
quote_or_summary: A grievous punishment is announced, except for those who believe
and do good works, for whom a never-failing reward is prepared.
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: Extraction is based directly on the supplied passage and notes. Motif assignments
use only the supplied taxonomy refs and remain broad. No comparison claims are
made because the passage itself does not 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: |-
The user-supplied passage locator label appears to include wording from an adjacent chapter, while the passage text itself is Chapter LXXXIV, The Rending in Sunder; this discrepancy should be checked against the canonical markdown line range.
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