batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l4900-l4946
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l4900-l4946
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4900-4946
start: '4900'
end: '4946'
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 rewards assigned to inhabitants of paradise after
a feast: mansions proportioned to merit, abundant attendants, spouses, jeweled
dwellings, gold vessels with food and drink, non-inebriating wine diluted with
sweet fragrant water, bodily freedom from ordinary evacuations, rich garments
and furnishings, perpetual youth and great stature like Adam, and instantaneous
offspring if desired.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Each person is dismissed from the feast to a mansion designed for him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The share of felicity is said to be proportioned to merits and to exceed comprehension
or expectation.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The least person in paradise is described as having many servants, wives from
the girls of paradise, former wives, and a large tent made of pearls, jacinths,
and emeralds.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Another tradition describes attendants serving many gold dishes, different
foods, liquors, and wine that does not intoxicate.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The wine of paradise is associated with dilution by sweet and fragrant water
from Tasnm and other fountains.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The inhabitants of paradise are said not to need ordinary bodily evacuations;
superfluities are removed by fragrant perspiration, after which appetite returns.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The godly are described as wearing rich silks and brocades, chiefly green,
supplied from the fruits of paradise and from leaves of the tree Tba.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The godly are adorned with gold and silver bracelets and pearl-set crowns
and use rich carpets, litters, couches, pillows, and other jeweled furniture.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Inhabitants of paradise are said to enjoy perpetual youth and to be raised
at about thirty years of age.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: On entering paradise, inhabitants are said to have the stature of Adam, described
as sixty cubits high.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: If the faithful desire offspring in paradise, conception, birth, and growth
occur within an hour.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: inhabitants of paradise / godly / faithful
description: Recipients of paradisal mansions, food, clothing, youth, stature, and
possible offspring.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: servants and attendants
description: Servants and attendants who wait on and serve the inhabitants of paradise.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: wives and girls of paradise
description: Spouses associated with the inhabitants of paradise, including girls
of paradise and wives from this world.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Mohammed / the prophet
description: Named as the prophet whose saying is cited about offspring in paradise
and as answering an objection about bodily evacuation.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Jewish objector
description: A person described as objecting that extensive eating and drinking
would require bodily evacuation.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Adam
description: A figure whose height is used as the stature of those entering paradise.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: blessed recipients of paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: They are assigned mansions, enjoy felicity, receive food, garments, youth,
and other rewards.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:2
label: paradisal servers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They wait on and serve the inhabitants while they eat.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: paradisal spouses
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They are named among the rewards of the inhabitant of paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: prophetic authority for paradisal claims
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The prophet is cited as answering objections and as giving a saying about
desired issue in paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: objector to bodily feasibility
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: This figure objects that eating and drinking require evacuation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: model of primordial stature
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Adam's stature is used as the stature of those entering paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: paradisal mansion
literal_form: mansion designed for each person
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: jeweled tent
literal_form: tent of pearls, jacinths, and emeralds
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: gold vessels and dishes
literal_form: dishes and vessels of gold containing food and liquors
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: non-inebriating wine
literal_form: wine of paradise that does not intoxicate
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: fragrant fountain water
literal_form: water of Tasnm and other fountains, sweet and fragrant
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: tree Tba
literal_form: leaves of the tree Tba supplying garments
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: green silk and brocade garments
literal_form: rich silks and brocades, chiefly green
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:8
label: pearl-set crowns and precious adornments
literal_form: bracelets of gold and silver, crowns set with pearls, and jeweled
furnishings
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:9
label: perpetual youth
literal_form: raised at about thirty years of age and never exceeding it
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:10
label: Adam's stature
literal_form: stature of Adam, described as sixty cubits high
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Assignment to paradisal mansions
summary: After a feast, each person is sent to a mansion designed for him, with
felicity proportioned to merit.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Abundant paradisal banquet and service
summary: The inhabitant of paradise is attended by servants and receives abundant
food, drink, gold vessels, non-intoxicating wine, and fragrant water.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Jeweled dwelling and spouses
summary: The least person in paradise is said to have many servants, wives, and
a large jeweled tent.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:4
label: Transformed paradisal body
summary: The inhabitants need no ordinary evacuation, are renewed in appetite by
fragrant perspiration, and possess perpetual youth and Adam-like stature.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Paradisal garments and furnishings
summary: The godly receive green silks, brocades, crowns, bracelets, carpets, couches,
and jeweled furnishings, including garments supplied by fruits and the tree Tba.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Instant offspring if desired
summary: A cited saying states that if the faithful desire children in paradise,
conception, birth, and growth occur within an hour.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: rewarded paradise after divine assessment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that each person's felicity in paradise is proportioned
to his merits and describes rewards for the godly and faithful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes reward and merit but does not narrate a full judgment
scene.
- id: motif:2
label: afterlife abode of abundance
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The passage describes movement from a feast to individualized mansions in
paradise and details the pleasures, food, drink, clothing, and furnishings of
that afterlife setting.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage maps an afterlife location and rewards but does not narrate
a journey through multiple afterlife regions.
- id: motif:3
label: transformed resurrected body
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The inhabitants are said to be raised in prime age, enjoy perpetual youth,
have Adam-like stature, and possess altered bodily functions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is descriptive rather than a narrative of resurrection itself.
- id: motif:4
label: wish-fulfilled paradisal generation
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_birth
basis: A cited saying states that desired offspring in paradise are conceived, born,
and grown within an hour.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The birth is miraculous in timing, but the passage frames it as a paradisal
reward rather than a sacred birth narrative centered on a particular child.
- id: motif:5
label: life-giving or provision-giving paradisal tree
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_tree_axis
basis: The tree Tba is described as supplying leaves used for the garments of the
godly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: low
cautions: The tree provides garments, but the passage does not present it as an
axis mundi or world center.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits a broad afterlife-reward pattern in which the righteous
receive individualized dwellings and abundant pleasures after death.
claim_level: same_function
target: afterlife_journey_map motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage provides a paradisal description rather than a full itinerary
or journey narrative.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage supports comparison with resurrection motifs insofar as the inhabitants
are raised into an idealized, transformed bodily state.
claim_level: same_function
target: resurrection motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: No detailed resurrection event or judgment tribunal is narrated in
this excerpt.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 4900-4904
quote_or_summary: After the feast, each person is dismissed to a designed mansion,
with felicity proportioned to merits and exceeding comprehension.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 4904-4909
quote_or_summary: The meanest in paradise is said to have numerous servants, seventy-two
wives of the girls of paradise, former wives, and a large tent made of pearls,
jacinths, and emeralds.
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 4909-4917
quote_or_summary: Another tradition describes hundreds of attendants, gold dishes
with different foods, gold vessels of liquors, and freely allowed wine that does
not intoxicate.
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 4917-4920
quote_or_summary: The water of Tasnm and other fountains used to dilute the wine
is described as wonderfully sweet and fragrant.
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 4920-4928
quote_or_summary: An objection about eating and evacuation is answered by saying
that inhabitants of paradise do not need to evacuate; superfluities pass off as
musk-scented perspiration and appetite returns.
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 4929-4934
quote_or_summary: The godly are clothed in rich silks and brocades, chiefly green,
from the fruits of paradise and from leaves of the tree Tba.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 4934-4938
quote_or_summary: The godly are adorned with gold and silver bracelets and pearl
crowns and use rich furniture, carpets, litters, couches, and pillows embroidered
with gold and precious stones.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 4938-4943
quote_or_summary: Inhabitants of paradise enjoy perpetual youth, are raised around
thirty years of age, never exceed that age, and enter paradise with Adam's stature,
said to be sixty cubits high.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 4943-4946
quote_or_summary: A prophetic saying states that if one of the faithful desires
issue in paradise, it will be conceived, born, and grown up within an hour.
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: The passage is descriptive and contains clear afterlife-reward imagery; broader
motif assignments are cautious because it does not narrate a full judgment or
journey sequence.
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: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Proper names are retained as they appear in the passage: Tasnm and Tba.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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