batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l39382-l39445
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l39382-l39445
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: ENTITLED, ABU LAHEB; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL
GOD. / CHAPTER CXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 39382-39445
start: '39382'
end: '39445'
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 contains Chapter CXI, announcing the ruin of Abu Laheb, the
uselessness of his wealth, his burning in flaming fire, and his wife carrying
wood with a palm-fibre cord on her neck. The notes identify Abu Laheb as Mohammed's
hostile uncle and explain the wife's wood-bearing in relation to hostility toward
Mohammed. Chapter CXII declares God's unity, eternity, non-begetting and non-begotten
status, and incomparability.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Abu Laheb's hands are said to perish, and he himself is said to perish.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Abu Laheb's riches and gains are said not to profit him.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Abu Laheb is said to go down to be burned in flaming fire.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: Abu Laheb's wife is included in the announced punishment and is described
as bearing wood.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The wife is described as having a cord of twisted palm-tree fibres on her
neck.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: A note identifies Abu Laheb as Abd'al Uzza, an uncle of Mohammed and a bitter
enemy to him.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: A note reports that Abu Laheb reacted to Mohammed's warning by cursing him
and taking up a stone to cast at him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: A note explains the wife's wood-bearing as fuel in hell or as thorns and brambles
placed in Mohammed's way.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Chapter CXII states that God is one and eternal.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Chapter CXII states that God neither begets nor is begotten, and that no one
is like him.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Abu Laheb
description: The named target of Chapter CXI; identified in the note as Abd'al Uzza,
Mohammed's uncle and enemy.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: wife of Abu Laheb
description: Described as bearing wood and wearing a cord of twisted palm-tree fibres
on her neck; the note names her Omm Jeml.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: God
description: Named in the invocation and in Chapter CXII as one, eternal, unbegetting,
unbegotten, and without likeness.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: Mentioned in the notes as Abu Laheb's nephew and as the prophet whose
warning Abu Laheb opposed.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Koreish
description: Mentioned in the note to Chapter CXII as asking Mohammed about the
distinguishing attributes of the God he invited them to worship.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: condemned opponent
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The chapter announces Abu Laheb's perishing and burning in flaming fire;
the note identifies him as a bitter enemy of Mohammed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: kinsman of Mohammed
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The note calls Abu Laheb an uncle of Mohammed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: accompanying condemned wife
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The wife is included with Abu Laheb and described with wood and a neck cord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: one eternal deity
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Chapter CXII declares God one and eternal, neither begetting nor begotten,
and incomparable.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: warned prophet opposed by Abu Laheb
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The notes say Mohammed warned his near relations and Abu Laheb opposed him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: questioning group
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The note says the Koreish asked Mohammed about the distinguishing attributes
of the God he invited them to worship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: flaming fire
literal_form: flaming fire in which Abu Laheb is to be burned
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: wood or fuel
literal_form: wood borne by Abu Laheb's wife; note explains it as fuel in hell or
thorns and brambles
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: twisted palm-fibre cord
literal_form: cord of twisted fibres of a palm-tree on the wife's neck
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: hands of Abu Laheb
literal_form: hands named in the announcement of perishing; note says commentators
understand them as person, affairs, or hopes
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: divine unity formula
literal_form: God is one, eternal, neither begetting nor begotten, with none like
him
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Condemnation of Abu Laheb and his wife
summary: Chapter CXI announces Abu Laheb's perishing, the failure of his wealth,
his burning in flaming fire, and his wife's wood-bearing with a palm-fibre cord
on her neck.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Commentarial occasion of revelation
summary: The notes describe Abu Laheb as Mohammed's hostile uncle who cursed Mohammed
and took up a stone after Mohammed warned his relations.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Declaration of divine unity
summary: Chapter CXII answers with a concise statement of God's oneness, eternity,
absence of begetting or being begotten, and incomparability.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment on an opponent
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Abu Laheb is condemned to perish, his wealth is declared useless, and he
is said to be burned in flaming fire; the note frames this as divine vengeance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is a translated Qur'anic chapter with translator notes; extraction
records the passage-level condemnation without expanding beyond the supplied text.
- id: motif:2
label: punitive fire
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The punishment is described as being burned in flaming fire, and the wife's
wood is glossed as fuel in hell by the note.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: Although the symbol taxonomy includes fire, the available motif families
do not include a precise punitive-fire motif except indirectly through divine
judgment.
- id: motif:3
label: divine unity and incomparability
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Chapter CXII states that God is one, eternal, neither begetting nor begotten,
and without likeness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy motif precisely captures this doctrinal declaration;
it is retained as a passage-level candidate motif without a taxonomy reference.
- id: motif:4
label: rejection of divine parent-child relation
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_parent_child
basis: Chapter CXII explicitly denies that God begets or is begotten.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy label is positive and broad; the passage uses the
relation negatively, as a denial rather than as a narrative of divine parentage.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 39386-39389
quote_or_summary: '"THE hands of Abu Laheb shall perish... His riches shall not
profit him... He shall go down to be burned into flaming fire"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 39390-39391
quote_or_summary: '"and his wife also, bearing wood, having on her neck a cord of
twisted fibres of a palm-tree."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: note g, lines 39403-39407
quote_or_summary: The note identifies Abu Laheb as Abd'al Uzza, Mohammed's uncle,
and says he was a bitter enemy who opposed Mohammed's new religion.
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: note g, lines 39407-39412
quote_or_summary: The note says Mohammed warned his near relations of grievous chastisement,
after which Abu Laheb cursed him and took up a stone to cast at him; the passage
was then revealed.
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: note m, lines 39433-39436
quote_or_summary: The note explains the wife's wood-bearing either as fuel in hell
because she fomented her husband's hatred, or as thorns and brambles she placed
in Mohammed's way at night.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 39398-39401
quote_or_summary: '"God is one GOD; the eternal GOD: be begetteth not, neither is
he begotten: and there is not any one like unto him."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: note n, lines 39437-39442
quote_or_summary: The note says Chapter CXII was revealed in answer to the Koreish,
who asked Mohammed about the distinguishing attributes of the God he invited them
to worship.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: note g continuation, lines 39413-39417
quote_or_summary: The note reports that commentators understand Abu Laheb's hands
as his person, his affairs, or his hopes in this world and the next.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: note i, lines 39422-39426
quote_or_summary: The note says Abu Laheb's possessions and rank did not protect
him against the vengeance of God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The basic figures and images are explicit. Motif taxonomy assignment is clearest
for divine judgment and fire imagery; the divine unity material lacks a close
supplied taxonomy match. No comparison claims were made because the passage itself
does not support a comparative claim beyond internal doctrinal and commentarial
explanation.
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: |-
Extraction uses only the supplied passage text and metadata, including translator notes within the provided line range.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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