batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l38349-l38409
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l38349-l38409
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER LXXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
/ IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38349-38409
start: '38349'
end: '38409'
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: HATH the news of the overwhelming day of judgment reached thee?
summary: The passage describes the overwhelming day of judgment, contrasting cast-down
faces who suffer fire, boiling drink, and thorny food with joyful faces placed
in a lofty garden with a running fountain and prepared furnishings. It then calls
attention to created camels, raised heaven, fixed mountains, and extended earth,
and instructs the addressed figure to warn the people. Those who turn back and
disbelieve will receive greater punishment, return to God, and be brought to account.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage opens by asking whether news of the overwhelming day of judgment
has reached the addressed figure.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: On that day, some countenances are described as cast down, labouring, and
toiling.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The cast-down group is described as being cast into scorching fire, given
drink from a boiling fountain, and fed dry thorns and thistles that do not satisfy
hunger.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Other countenances are described as joyful and pleased with their past endeavor.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The joyful group is placed in a lofty garden containing no vain discourse,
a running fountain, raised beds, goblets, cushions, and carpets.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The passage asks its audience to consider camels, the heaven, mountains, and
the earth in relation to their created or arranged forms.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The addressed figure is instructed to warn the people and is described as
a warner only, not one empowered to act with authority over them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Whoever turns back and disbelieves is said to be punished by God with the
greater punishment of the life to come.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: The passage states that they will return to God and that bringing them to
account will be God's part.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: GOD
description: The divine speaker or agent who punishes the disbeliever, receives
the return of people, and brings them to account.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Addressed warner
description: The figure addressed as 'thee' and instructed to warn the people without
authority over them.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Cast-down countenances
description: Those whose faces are cast down on the day of judgment and who suffer
fire, boiling drink, and thorny food.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Joyful countenances
description: Those whose faces are joyful, who are pleased with past endeavor, and
who are placed in a lofty garden.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Whoever turns back and disbelieves
description: A person or group described as turning back and disbelieving, subject
to greater punishment in the life to come.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge and accountant
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says all return to God and that bringing them to account is God's
part.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: divine punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to punish the one who turns back and disbelieves with the greater
punishment of the life to come.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: warner
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressed figure is told to warn the people and is called a warner only.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: punished disbeliever or condemned group
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:5
basis: The cast-down group suffers fire, boiling drink, and thorny food; the one
who turns back and disbelieves receives greater punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: rewarded group
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The joyful group is pleased with past endeavor and placed in a lofty garden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: scorching fire
literal_form: scorching fire into which the cast-down group is cast
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: boiling fountain
literal_form: boiling fountain given as drink to the cast-down group
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: dry thorns and thistles
literal_form: dry thorns and thistles used as food that neither fatten nor satisfy
hunger
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: lofty garden
literal_form: lofty garden where the joyful group is placed
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: running fountain
literal_form: running fountain in the lofty garden
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: prepared furnishings of the garden
literal_form: raised beds, goblets, cushions, and carpets
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:7
label: camels
literal_form: camels considered in relation to how they are created
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:8
label: heaven raised
literal_form: the heaven considered in relation to how it is raised
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:9
label: fixed mountains
literal_form: mountains considered in relation to how they are fixed
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:10
label: extended earth
literal_form: the earth considered in relation to how it is extended
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Question about the overwhelming day
summary: The passage names the overwhelming day of judgment and asks whether its
news has reached the addressed figure.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Punishment of cast-down faces
summary: Some faces on the judgment day are cast down, labouring and toiling, and
are subjected to fire, boiling drink, and unsatisfying thorny food.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Reward of joyful faces
summary: Other faces are joyful and pleased with past endeavor, and they are placed
in a lofty garden with a running fountain and prepared furnishings.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Signs in creation
summary: The passage calls attention to camels, heaven, mountains, and earth as
objects of consideration.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Warning, return, and account
summary: The addressed figure is told to warn without authority over the people;
those who turn back and disbelieve are punished by God, return to God, and are
brought to account.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: final divine judgment and accounting
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage names the day of judgment, describes punishment and reward, and
states that people return to God to be brought to account.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The extraction is limited to this passage's eschatological statements
and does not infer details beyond the stated judgment, punishment, reward, return,
and account.
- id: motif:2
label: contrasting afterlife realms of punishment and reward
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The passage contrasts scorching fire, boiling drink, and thorny food with
a lofty garden, running fountain, and prepared furnishings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents afterlife settings and fates but does not narrate
a journey through them.
- id: motif:3
label: warning before judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The addressed figure is instructed to warn the people, while the passage
states that disbelievers will be punished and brought to account.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The motif label is descriptive; no separate taxonomy item for warning
is supplied.
- id: motif:4
label: contemplation of created signs
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage asks the audience to consider camels, heaven, mountains, and
earth in relation to their created or arranged forms.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The connection to the supplied wisdom motif family is interpretive and
based on the passage's call to consider created phenomena.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 38349-38409, opening of Chapter LXXXVIII
quote_or_summary: '"HATH the news of the overwhelming day of judgment reached thee?"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 38349-38409, punishment description
quote_or_summary: Some faces on the day are cast down, labouring and toiling; they
are cast into scorching fire, drink from a boiling fountain, and have only dry
thorns and thistles that do not satisfy hunger.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 38349-38409, reward description around verse marker 10
quote_or_summary: Other faces are joyful and pleased with past endeavor; they are
placed in a lofty garden with no vain discourse, a running fountain, raised beds,
goblets, cushions, and carpets.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 38349-38409, created signs around verse markers 10-20
quote_or_summary: The passage asks whether they consider the camels and how they
are created, the heaven and how it is raised, the mountains and how they are fixed,
and the earth and how it is extended.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 38349-38409, warning instruction after verse marker 20
quote_or_summary: The addressed figure is told to warn the people, being only a
warner and not empowered to act with authority over them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 38349-38409, punishment of disbeliever
quote_or_summary: Whoever turns back and disbelieves will be punished by God with
the greater punishment of the life to come.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 38349-38409, closing statement
quote_or_summary: '"Verily unto us shall they return: then shall it be our part
to bring them to account."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is strong for the judgment, punishment, garden reward,
created signs, warning, return, and accounting. Motif assignments use only supplied
taxonomy refs; the afterlife-map and wisdom assignments are somewhat interpretive.
No comparison claims are made because the passage itself does not present a comparison
to another corpus or tradition.
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: |-
Footnotes in the supplied passage were used only where they clarify literal referents already present in the passage; no external comparisons were added.
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