batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l38412-l38514
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l38412-l38514
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER LXXXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXIX.
/ IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38412-38514
start: '38412'
end: '38514'
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 opens with oaths by daybreak, sacred nights, double and single,
and night. It recalls how the Lord dealt with Ad/Irem, Thamud, and Pharaoh, who
acted insolently and spread corruption. It says the Lord poured chastisement on
them and watches human actions. It contrasts human reactions to prosperity and
affliction, condemns neglect of orphans and the poor, greed for inheritance, and
love of riches. It then describes the earth being ground to dust, the Lord coming
with angels in ranks, hell being brought near, human regret, punishment and binding,
and the restful soul being told to return to the Lord and enter paradise.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage begins with oaths by daybreak, ten nights, double and single,
and the night as it comes on.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The Lord is said to have dealt with Ad, the people of Irem, who are described
as adorned with lofty buildings.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Thamud are described as hewing rocks in the valley into houses.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Pharaoh is called the contriver of the stakes, and the named groups are described
as having behaved insolently and multiplied corruption in the earth.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The Lord is said to have poured various kinds of chastisement on the insolent
and corrupt groups and to observe human actions from a watch-tower.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: A human being tested by prosperity says the Lord honors him, while one tested
by affliction and withheld provision says the Lord despises him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The passage condemns failure to honor the orphan, failure to encourage feeding
the poor, greedy devouring of the inheritance of the weak, and strong love of
riches.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The passage describes a future time when the earth will be ground to dust,
the Lord will come, angels will stand rank by rank, and hell will be brought near.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: On that day, man will remember his evil deeds and wish he had done good works
during his lifetime.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The restful soul is addressed and told to return to the Lord, enter among
the Lord’s servants, and enter paradise.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: A translator note reports a commentary tradition in which Sheddd son of Ad
built a garden in imitation of celestial paradise and was destroyed with his company
by a terrible noise from heaven before reaching it.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: the Lord / God
description: The divine figure who deals with past peoples, tests humans, observes
actions, comes on the day of judgment, addresses the soul, and admits servants
into paradise.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Ad / people of Irem
description: A past people associated with Irem and lofty buildings.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Thamud
description: A past people who hewed rocks in the valley into houses.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Pharaoh
description: Called the contriver of the stakes and grouped with those who acted
insolently and multiplied corruption.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: man
description: The human figure who reacts to prosperity and affliction, remembers
evil deeds on the day of judgment, and regrets not having done good works.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: orphan
description: A vulnerable person whom the audience is said not to honor.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: poor
description: Persons whom the audience does not encourage one another to feed.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: weak
description: Persons whose inheritance is devoured with greediness.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: angels
description: Beings who appear rank by rank when the Lord comes in the judgment
scene.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: the soul which is at rest
description: A soul addressed as at rest and told to return to the Lord and enter
paradise.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Sheddd son of Ad
description: In the translator note, a monarch said to have built a garden in imitation
of celestial paradise and to have been destroyed before reaching it.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Lord punishes corrupt past peoples and presides over the day when deeds
are remembered and punishment occurs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: tester and provider
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Lord tries man by prosperity, honor, bounty, affliction, and withheld
provision.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: receiver of the soul
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The soul is told to return to the Lord and enter paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: punished former power
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: Ad/Irem, Thamud, and Pharaoh are cited as former groups or rulers associated
with insolence, corruption, or divine punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: tested human
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Man is described as responding to prosperity and affliction as divine honor
or divine contempt.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: regretful judged person
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: On the day of judgment, man remembers evil deeds and wishes he had done good
works.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: neglected vulnerable person
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: The passage identifies orphans, the poor, and the weak in connection with
failures of honor, feeding, and protection of inheritance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: ranked heavenly attendants
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Angels are described as appearing rank by rank in the judgment scene.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: accepted soul
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The soul at rest is called well pleased and well pleasing, and is told to
enter among servants and into paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:10
label: builder of imitative paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The translator note says Sheddd made a garden in imitation of celestial paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: daybreak
literal_form: daybreak invoked in an oath
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: ten nights
literal_form: ten nights invoked in an oath
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: double and single
literal_form: that which is double and that which is single, invoked in an oath
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:4
label: night coming on
literal_form: the night when it comes on, invoked in an oath
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:5
label: lofty buildings of Irem
literal_form: lofty buildings associated with Irem
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:6
label: rock houses in the valley
literal_form: rocks hewed in the valley into houses
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:7
label: stakes of Pharaoh
literal_form: stakes associated with Pharaoh
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:8
label: watch-tower
literal_form: watch-tower from which the Lord observes human actions
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:9
label: earth ground to dust
literal_form: the earth minutely ground to dust
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:10
label: hell brought near
literal_form: hell brought near on the day of remembrance
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:11
label: bonds
literal_form: bonds associated with punishment on that day
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:12
label: paradise
literal_form: paradise entered by the soul at rest
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:13
label: imitative garden of Irem
literal_form: a garden made in imitation of celestial paradise, according to the
translator note
associated_figures:
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Oaths by times and paired terms
summary: The passage opens with an oath by daybreak, ten nights, double and single,
and the night as it comes on.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Former peoples and divine chastisement
summary: Ad/Irem, Thamud, and Pharaoh are named as former powers; they are associated
with monumental works, insolence, corruption, and divine chastisement.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Human misreading of trial
summary: Man interprets prosperity as divine honor and affliction as divine contempt,
while the passage condemns social neglect and greed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Judgment and regret
summary: The earth is ground to dust, the Lord comes with angels in ranks, hell
is brought near, and man remembers evil deeds and regrets not having done good
works.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Return of the restful soul
summary: The soul at rest is told to return to the Lord, enter among the Lord’s
servants, and enter paradise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Commentarial garden imitating paradise
summary: A translator note recounts that Sheddd built a garden in imitation of celestial
paradise and was destroyed with his company by a heavenly noise before seeing
it.
figure_refs:
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:13
- sym:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine judgment on arrogant former powers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Ad/Irem, Thamud, and Pharaoh are cited as examples of those who behaved insolently,
multiplied corruption, and received chastisement from the Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives brief exempla rather than a full narrative of each people’s
destruction.
- id: motif:2
label: Final judgment with cosmic disruption, angels, hell, and regret
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The earth is ground to dust, the Lord comes, angels appear in ranks, hell
is brought near, and man remembers evil deeds and expresses regret.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is eschatological and admonitory; it does not provide an extended
sequence beyond these elements.
- id: motif:3
label: Return of the accepted soul to divine paradise
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: The soul at rest is commanded to return to the Lord, enter among the Lord’s
servants, and enter paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference 'return' is applicable only in the literal sense
of the soul returning to the Lord; the passage does not frame it as a hero-return
narrative.
- id: motif:4
label: Moral trial by prosperity and affliction
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Man is tested by prosperity and affliction, and the passage links moral failure
to neglect of orphans, the poor, and the weak, as well as greed for riches.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: This is an ethical-theological pattern rather than a narrative myth motif.
- id: motif:5
label: Human imitation of celestial paradise followed by heavenly destruction
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The translator note reports a commentary tradition in which Sheddd built
a garden imitating celestial paradise and was destroyed by a terrible noise from
heaven before arriving there.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: This motif derives from the translator’s note and cited commentators,
not directly from the Qur'anic verse text in the passage.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: Within the translator note, Sheddd’s garden is explicitly presented as an
imitation of celestial paradise.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: celestial paradise
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an intra-passage comparison in the note; it should not be treated
as evidence of external historical contact or broad comparative inheritance.
- id: claim:2
claim: Ad/Irem, Thamud, and Pharaoh function together as examples of former powers
associated with insolence, corruption, and divine punishment.
claim_level: same_function
target: pattern of punished arrogant powers
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage groups them rhetorically but gives different details for
each and does not narrate all their histories.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 38412-38514; Chapter LXXXIX opening oath
quote_or_summary: "“BY the daybreak, and ten nights; by that which is double, and
that which is single; and by the night when it cometh on”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for extraction evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 38412-38514; Chapter LXXXIX, Ad/Irem and Thamud
quote_or_summary: The Lord is said to have dealt with Ad, the people of Irem adorned
with lofty buildings, and with Thamud, who hewed rocks in the valley into houses.
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 38412-38514; Chapter LXXXIX, Pharaoh and chastisement
quote_or_summary: Pharaoh is called the contriver of the stakes; the named powers
behaved insolently and multiplied corruption, so the Lord poured various chastisements
on them and observes human actions from a watch-tower.
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 38412-38514; Chapter LXXXIX, human trial
quote_or_summary: Man, when tried by prosperity, honor, and bounty, says the Lord
honors him; when tried by afflictions and withheld provisions, he says the Lord
despises him.
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 38412-38514; Chapter LXXXIX, social failures
quote_or_summary: The audience is reproached for not honoring the orphan, not encouraging
feeding the poor, devouring the inheritance of the weak, and loving riches greatly.
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 38412-38514; Chapter LXXXIX, judgment scene
quote_or_summary: When the earth is ground to dust, the Lord comes, angels stand
rank by rank, hell is brought near, and man remembers evil deeds and wishes he
had done good works; punishment and bonds are mentioned.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 38412-38514; Chapter LXXXIX closing address to the soul
quote_or_summary: "“O thou soul which art at rest, return unto thy LORD... enter
among my servants; and enter my paradise.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for extraction evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 38412-38514; translator note b on Irem
quote_or_summary: The note says commentators relate the passage to Sheddd son of
Ad, who made a garden in imitation of celestial paradise in the deserts of Aden;
when he approached it with his company, they were destroyed by a terrible noise
from heaven.
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: medium
notes: Main textual extraction is straightforward. Motif assignments are cautious
because the passage is brief and includes translator notes alongside the translated
Qur'anic text.
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 taxonomy symbol refs were assigned because the supplied symbol list does not include the passage’s main literal symbols such as daybreak, night, hell, paradise, rocks, stakes, or watch-tower.
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