batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l39044-l39096
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l39044-l39096
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER CIV. / ENTITLED, THE SLANDERER;
REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 39044-39096
start: '39044'
end: '39096'
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 includes a brief chapter invoking the afternoon and stating
that humanity is in loss except those who believe, do right, and mutually recommend
truth and perseverance. It then presents a warning against the slanderer and backbiter
who accumulates riches and imagines wealth can make him immortal; such a person
will be cast into Al Hotama, described as the kindled fire of God rising over
hearts and enclosing its occupants like a vaulted structure on vast columns.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker swears by or invokes the afternoon.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Man is said to employ himself in what will prove to be loss, with an exception
for those who believe, do right, and mutually recommend truth and perseverance.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A woe is pronounced upon every slanderer and backbiter.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The slanderer and backbiter is described as heaping up riches and preparing
them for a future time.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The figure who heaps up riches thinks that his riches will render him immortal.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The condemned figure is said to be cast into Al Hotama.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Al Hotama is explained as the kindled fire of God.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The fire is described as mounting above the hearts of those cast into it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The fire or place of punishment is described as an arched vault above them
on columns of vast extent.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: man
description: Humanity in general, described as being occupied in what will prove
loss, except for specified righteous persons.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: those who believe and do right
description: Persons excepted from the general loss because they believe, do right,
and recommend truth and perseverance to one another.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: slanderer and backbiter
description: A condemned person who heaps up riches, prepares them for the future,
and thinks wealth will make him immortal.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: God
description: Named in the invocation and as the possessor or source of the kindled
fire described as the fire of God.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: humanity subject to loss
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage states that man employs himself in what will prove loss, before
naming an exception.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: righteous exception
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Those who believe, do right, and mutually recommend truth and perseverance
are excepted from the stated loss.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: condemned hoarder and slanderer
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage pronounces woe on the slanderer and backbiter who heaps riches
and imagines they confer immortality, then says he will be cast into Al Hotama.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: divine source of punitive fire
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Al Hotama is identified as the kindled fire of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: afternoon
literal_form: the afternoon
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: riches
literal_form: heaped-up riches prepared for the time to come
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: Al Hotama
literal_form: Al Hotama, the place or condition into which the condemned figure
is cast
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: kindled fire of God
literal_form: kindled fire of God
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: hearts
literal_form: the hearts of those cast into the fire
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: arched vault and vast columns
literal_form: an arched vault above them on columns of vast extent
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Statement on loss and righteous exception
summary: The passage invokes the afternoon and states that humanity is in loss except
those who believe, act rightly, and mutually urge truth and perseverance.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Condemnation of the slanderer who trusts riches
summary: A woe is pronounced on the slanderer and backbiter who accumulates wealth
and thinks it will make him immortal.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Casting into Al Hotama
summary: The condemned figure is said to be cast into Al Hotama, explained as the
kindled fire of God that rises over hearts and encloses its victims under a vaulted
structure with vast columns.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine punishment of the morally condemned
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage condemns the slanderer and backbiter and describes his being
cast into a divinely identified fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not describe a formal judgment scene; the motif is inferred
from the stated condemnation and punishment.
- id: motif:2
label: wealth fails to confer immortality
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The condemned figure heaps riches and thinks they will render him immortal,
but the passage rejects this and states he will be cast into Al Hotama.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches this motif.
- id: motif:3
label: fiery confinement after condemnation
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Al Hotama is described as the kindled fire of God rising above hearts and
enclosing those cast into it like an arched vault on vast columns.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives a compact image of punishment rather than a detailed
afterlife topography.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 39044-39052
quote_or_summary: Chapter CIII invokes the afternoon and says humanity is in loss
except those who believe, do right, and mutually recommend truth and perseverance.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 39058-39063
quote_or_summary: '"WOE unto every slanderer, and backbiter" who heaps up riches
and prepares them for the future.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 39088-39090
quote_or_summary: The rich hoarder thinks his riches will make him immortal, but
he will be cast into Al Hotama.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 39091-39094
quote_or_summary: Al Hotama is identified as the kindled fire of God, which mounts
above the hearts of those cast into it.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 39095-39096
quote_or_summary: '"it shall be as an arched vault above them / on columns of vast
extent."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 39048, 39060
quote_or_summary: Both chapters begin with the invocation in the name of the most
merciful God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward from the supplied passage. Motif labels
are cautious and limited to available evidence and taxonomy. No comparison claims
are made because the passage itself does not establish comparison to another text
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: |-
The supplied range includes the end of Chapter CIII and all of Chapter CIV, along with translator notes; extraction focuses on the canonical passage content and does not use the notes to add unsupported narrative details.
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