batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l5062-l5114
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l5062-l5114
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5062-5114
start: '5062'
end: '5114'
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 discusses orthodox and allegorical understandings of paradisiacal
descriptions; rejects the claim that women lack souls or rewards in the next life;
states that women as well as men are punished or rewarded by God; recounts a saying
in which an old woman is told that no old woman enters paradise because God will
make her young again; and introduces the doctrine of absolute divine decree and
predestination recorded in the preserved table.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Some Mohammedans are described as reading the prophet's descriptions of the
next world allegorically or spiritually, while the general orthodox doctrine is
described as requiring literal belief.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: An oath imposed on Christians is described as invoking belief in black-eyed
girls and corporeal pleasures in the next world if the swearer falsifies an engagement.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The passage denies that Mohammedans generally teach that women have no souls
or no next-life reward.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Several passages in the Koran are summarized as affirming that women will
be punished for evil actions and rewarded for good deeds in the next life, with
no distinction of sexes by God in that respect.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage reports a general notion that good women will not be admitted
into the same abode as men, but will enter a separate place of happiness with
delights.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Some are said to allow that a man in paradise may also have the company of
women who were his wives in this world, or such of them as he desires.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Mohammed is said to have told an old woman that no old woman would enter paradise,
then explained that God would make her young again.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The sixth great point of faith is described as belief in God's absolute decree
and predestination of both good and evil.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Events and human conditions are described as irrevocably fixed and recorded
from eternity in the preserved table.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Mohammedans
description: A collective group described as holding orthodox and, in some cases,
allegorical views of paradisiacal descriptions and predestination.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Christians
description: A group described as being made to swear a sacred oath involving next-world
black-eyed girls and corporeal pleasures.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Mohammed
description: The prophet described as respecting women and as answering an old woman
about admission into paradise.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: God
description: The divine figure described as rewarding and punishing without sex
distinction, making the old woman young again, and decreeing events absolutely.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: women
description: Women are described as having next-life punishment for evil actions
and reward for good deeds, and good women are said to enter a separate place of
happiness.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: men
description: Men are described as having an abode in the next life supplied by paradisiacal
females, with some allowing the company of former wives.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: paradisiacal females
description: Females described as supplying the places of women in the men's abode
in paradise.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: old woman
description: A woman who asks Mohammed to intercede with God that she may be admitted
into paradise and cries after being told no old woman will enter there.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: orthodox believers and interpreters
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage contrasts allegorical interpretations among some Mohammedans
with a general orthodox literal doctrine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: oath-bound outsiders
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Christians are described as being made to swear an oath invoking paradisiacal
claims.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: prophet and intercessory addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Mohammed is described as the prophet and as being asked by an old woman to
intercede with God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: rewarder and punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: God is described as making no distinction of sexes in punishment and reward
for actions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: absolute decreer
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The doctrine described attributes absolute decree and predestination of good
and evil to God's will.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: female recipients of afterlife recompense
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Women are described as punished for evil actions and rewarded for good deeds
in the next life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: male inhabitants of paradisiacal abode
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The passage refers to men's abode and the company provided there.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: paradisiacal companions
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Paradisiacal females are described as supplying women's places in the men's
abode.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: supplicant for paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The old woman asks Mohammed to intercede with God for admission into paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: black-eyed girls in the next world
literal_form: black-eyed girls
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: corporeal pleasures in the next world
literal_form: corporeal pleasures
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: separate place of happiness
literal_form: a separate place of happiness with all sorts of delights
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: youth restored in paradise
literal_form: God making an old woman young again
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: preserved table
literal_form: the preserved table
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Literal and allegorical readings of paradise
summary: The passage contrasts refined allegorical interpretations of paradisiacal
descriptions with the orthodox requirement to believe them literally, including
corporeal pleasures.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Women and next-life recompense
summary: The passage rejects a claim that women lack souls or reward and states
that women are punished and rewarded in the next life as men are, while also reporting
a notion of a separate place of happiness for good women.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Old woman made young for paradise
summary: An old woman asks Mohammed to intercede for her entry into paradise; after
saying no old woman enters paradise, he explains that God will make her young
again.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Absolute decree and the preserved table
summary: The passage introduces belief in God's absolute decree and predestination,
saying that fortune, faith, obedience, and disobedience are fixed and recorded
from eternity in the preserved table.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: afterlife reward and punishment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that women in the next life will be punished for evil
actions and rewarded for good deeds, and that God makes no distinction of sexes
in this respect.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is explanatory commentary rather than a narrative episode
from the Koran itself.
- id: motif:2
label: paradise as abode of delights
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The passage describes the next world, an abode for men, paradisiacal females,
corporeal pleasures, and a separate place of happiness for good women.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives doctrinal description and polemical commentary, not
a mapped journey through afterlife regions.
- id: motif:3
label: rejuvenation for paradise
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
- death_rebirth
basis: The old woman is told that no old woman enters paradise because God will
make her young again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage describes rejuvenation, but not a full death-and-rebirth narrative.
- id: motif:4
label: cosmic record of destiny
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage describes good, evil, fortune, faith, and conduct as fixed by
divine will and recorded from eternity in the preserved table.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy has no direct fate or predestination category;
divine_judgment is only a partial fit.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 5062-5068
quote_or_summary: Some Mohammedans are said to read the prophet's descriptions as
parabolical or spiritual, while the general orthodox doctrine is that the whole
should be believed literally.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 5068-5073
quote_or_summary: They make Christians swear that, if they falsify their engagement,
they will affirm “there will be black-eyed girls in the next world, and corporeal
pleasures.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 5074-5082
quote_or_summary: The passage calls false the imputation that Mohammedans hold women
have no souls or will not be rewarded, and says Mohammed had too much respect
for women to teach such a doctrine.
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 5082-5087
quote_or_summary: Several Koran passages are said to affirm that women will be punished
for evil actions and rewarded for good deeds in the next life, as men are, with
God making no sex distinction in this case.
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 5087-5096
quote_or_summary: The passage reports a general notion that women will not share
the men's abode, which will be supplied by paradisiacal females; some allow former
wives as companions, and good women are said to enter a separate place of happiness
with delights.
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 5097-5103
quote_or_summary: An old woman asks Mohammed to intercede with God for her admission
into paradise; he says no old woman will enter, then explains that God will make
her young again.
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 5104-5114
quote_or_summary: The sixth point of faith is described as God's absolute decree
and predestination of good and evil, with fortune, faith, infidelity, obedience,
and disobedience fixed by divine will and recorded from eternity in the preserved
table.
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: high
notes: The passage is largely doctrinal commentary with a brief reported anecdote;
motif labels are therefore applied cautiously and require human review.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. No comparison claims were added because the passage does not itself support a specific comparative claim beyond available motif-family classification.
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