batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l8766-l8859
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l8766-l8859
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 8766-8859
start: '8766'
end: '8859'
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 contrasts unbelievers with believers through parables of extinguished
fire and a storm with thunder and lightning; calls people to serve God as creator
and sustainer; warns of fire for unbelievers and promises river-watered gardens
to believers. It then discusses divine parables, covenant-breaking, death and
restoration to life, the creation of earth and seven heavens, and the episode
in which God tells the angels he will place a substitute on earth, teaches Adam
the names of all things, and commands the angels to worship Adam; Eblis refuses
through pride.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Unbelievers are described as wandering in confusion after God continues them
in impiety.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A parable compares them to one who kindles a fire, after which God takes away
their light and leaves them in darkness.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A second parable compares them to people in a storm cloud with darkness, thunder,
and lightning, who put fingers in their ears from fear of death.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The passage says God made the earth a bed, the heaven a covering, sent down
water from heaven, and produced fruits for sustenance.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Unbelievers are warned to fear a fire whose fuel is men and stones.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Believers who do good works are promised gardens watered by rivers, fruit,
pure wives, and perpetual continuance there.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: God is said to propound a parable of a gnat or something more despicable,
by which many are misled and many directed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Transgressors are described as making void God's covenant, cutting apart what
God commanded to be joined, and acting corruptly on earth.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The passage states that God gave life after death, will cause death, will
restore to life again, and that people will return to him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: God is said to have created what is on earth and formed heaven into seven
heavens.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: God announces to the angels that he will place a substitute on earth; the
angels ask whether this being will do evil and shed blood.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: God teaches Adam the names of all things and asks the angels to declare the
names; the angels say they know only what God teaches them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: Adam tells the names of the things, and God says he knows the secrets of heaven
and earth and what is disclosed and concealed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The angels are commanded to worship Adam; all do so except Eblis, who refuses,
is proud, and becomes one of the unbelievers.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine speaker and actor who creates, directs, misleads transgressors,
judges, teaches Adam, and commands the angels.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: unbelievers / infidels / transgressors
description: People described as confused, in darkness, fearful in storm imagery,
covenant-breaking, corrupt, and destined for punishment unless directed otherwise.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: believers who do good works
description: Those promised gardens watered by rivers, fruit, pure wives, and perpetual
continuance.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Adam
description: The figure taught the names of all things by God and commanded to be
worshipped by the angels.
role_refs:
- role:8
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: angels
description: Heavenly beings who question the placement of a substitute on earth,
acknowledge their limited knowledge, and worship Adam when commanded.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Eblis
description: The being who refuses to worship Adam, is proud, and becomes one of
the unbelievers.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: servant
description: The recipient associated with the revelation sent down, challenged
as beyond human imitation in the passage.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: false gods and idols
description: Translator's note identifies the witnesses besides God as false gods
and idols.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
roles:
- id: role:1
label: creator and sustainer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God creates people, earth, heaven, water, fruits, and all that is on earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- id: role:2
label: judge and punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God leaves unbelievers in darkness, encompasses infidels, warns of fire,
and says transgressors shall perish.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: giver of life and restorer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage says God gave life, will cause death, and will restore life again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: teacher of hidden knowledge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God teaches Adam the names and knows the secrets of heaven and earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:5
label: misdirected or resistant hearers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They are represented through parables of lost light and fearful response
to thunder and lightning.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: covenant breakers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Transgressors make void God's covenant and sever what God commanded joined.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: rewarded righteous
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Believers doing good works receive good tidings of gardens and continued
life there.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: named human substitute on earth
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: God announces a substitute on earth and then teaches Adam the names of all
things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:9
label: demonstrator of taught knowledge
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Adam tells the names after the angels cannot declare them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:10
label: obedient heavenly beings with limited knowledge
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The angels say they have no knowledge except what God teaches and obey the
command to worship Adam.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: role:11
label: proud refuser
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Eblis refuses the command, is puffed up with pride, and becomes among unbelievers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:12
label: rival invoked witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The note glosses witnesses besides God as false gods and idols.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: extinguished or removed light
literal_form: fire kindled, light taken away, darkness remaining
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: storm cloud with thunder and lightning
literal_form: stormy cloud from heaven, darkness, thunder, lightning, fear of death
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: water from heaven
literal_form: water descending from heaven producing fruits
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: punitive fire
literal_form: fire whose fuel is men and stones
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: paradisal gardens and rivers
literal_form: gardens watered by rivers with fruit
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: gnat parable
literal_form: a gnat or more despicable thing used as a divine parable
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: covenant
literal_form: covenant of God established and then made void by transgressors
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: seven heavens
literal_form: heaven formed into seven heavens
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:9
label: names of all things
literal_form: names taught to Adam and declared before the angels
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: sym:10
label: worship of Adam
literal_form: command to the angels to worship Adam; Eblis refuses
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Parables of unbelief as lost light and storm fear
summary: 'Unbelievers are represented through two images: one of a kindled fire
whose light is removed, and another of people in a storm who fear thunder and
are intermittently guided by lightning.'
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Creator exhortation, revelation challenge, and contrasting destinies
summary: People are called to serve the creator who made earth, heaven, water, and
fruits; doubters are challenged to produce a similar chapter; unbelievers are
warned of fire while believers are promised gardens.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: scene:3
label: Parable of the gnat and covenant-breaking
summary: God's use of even a gnat as parable divides believers and unbelievers;
transgressors are identified as those who void God's covenant, sever what was
to be joined, and corrupt the earth.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: Life, death, restoration, and cosmic formation
summary: The passage states a sequence of death, life, death, restoration to life,
and return to God, then describes God creating what is on earth and forming heaven
into seven heavens.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:5
label: Adam, the angels, and Eblis
summary: God announces a substitute on earth, teaches Adam the names, demonstrates
Adam's knowledge before the angels, and commands the angels to worship Adam; all
comply except Eblis, who refuses in pride.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine judgment of unbelief
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Unbelievers are described as left in darkness, encompassed by God, warned
of a fire prepared for unbelievers, and identified with transgressors who shall
perish.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage also includes exhortation and parable; judgment is one prominent
strand rather than the only theme.
- id: motif:2
label: Covenant broken after establishment
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: Transgressors are said to make void the covenant of God after it was established
and to sever what God commanded joined.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The specific covenant is not detailed in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: Death, restoration to life, and return to God
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage states that God gave life after death, will cause death, will
restore life again, and that people return to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The statement is doctrinal and compressed, not a narrated journey.
- id: motif:4
label: Divinely taught wisdom surpassing angelic knowledge
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: God teaches Adam the names of all things; the angels admit they know only
what God teaches; Adam declares the names.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The content of the names is not specified beyond 'all things' and 'these
things.'
- id: motif:5
label: Paradisal reward with river-watered gardens
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: Believers who do good works are promised gardens watered by rivers, fruit,
pure wives, and eternal continuance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage describes an afterlife destination but not a journey through
it.
- id: motif:6
label: Refusal of divine command through pride
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Eblis refuses the command to worship Adam, is described as proud, and becomes
one of the unbelievers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The punitive outcome beyond becoming one of the unbelievers is not narrated
in this line range.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: 'The passage itself uses explicit comparison: unbelievers are likened to
a person whose kindled fire gives light before God removes the light, leaving
darkness.'
claim_level: same_function
target: parable of lost illumination as image of resistant unbelief
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:17
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an internal parabolic comparison, not evidence of historical
contact with another tradition.
- id: claim:2
claim: 'The passage and translator''s note present the storm-cloud image as another
internal comparison for unbelieving Arabs'' response to revelation: thunder as
threats, lightning as promises, and darkness as mysteries.'
claim_level: same_function
target: storm imagery as image of fearful and intermittent response to revelation
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:18
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The symbolic equivalences come from the translator's note citing Muslim
doctors, not from the main translated verse alone.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 8766-8769
quote_or_summary: God is said to mock them, continue them in impiety, and they wander
in confusion; they have purchased error for true direction.
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 8770-8774
quote_or_summary: They are likened to one kindling a fire; when it lights the surroundings,
God takes away their light and leaves them in darkness so they do not see; they
are deaf, dumb, and blind.
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 8775-8782
quote_or_summary: They are likened to people in a storm cloud with darkness, thunder,
and lightning; they stop their ears for fear of death; lightning nearly takes
their sight, and they move only when it lights the way.
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 8782-8786
quote_or_summary: People are told to serve the Lord who created them and earlier
generations, spread the earth as a bed, made heaven a covering, sent down water,
and produced fruits for sustenance.
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 8787-8792
quote_or_summary: Doubters are challenged to produce a chapter like the revelation;
if they cannot, they should fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared
for unbelievers.
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 8793-8799
quote_or_summary: Believers who do good works are promised gardens watered by rivers,
fruit for sustenance, wives subject to no impurity, and eternal continuance there.
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 8825-8830
quote_or_summary: God will not be ashamed to use a gnat or something more despicable
as a parable; believers recognize truth, while unbelievers question it; many are
misled and many directed by it, but only transgressors are misled.
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 8831-8834
quote_or_summary: Transgressors make void God's covenant after its establishment,
cut apart what God commanded joined, act corruptly in the earth, and shall perish.
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 8835-8837
quote_or_summary: The passage asks how people do not believe in God, since they
were dead and he gave life; he will cause death, restore life again, and they
will return to him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 8838-8840
quote_or_summary: God created for people whatever is on earth and formed heaven
into seven heavens; he knows all things.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 8841-8845
quote_or_summary: God tells the angels he will place a substitute on earth; they
ask whether he will place there one who will do evil and shed blood while they
praise and sanctify him; God says he knows what they do not.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 8846-8849
quote_or_summary: God teaches Adam the names of all things, proposes them to the
angels, and asks them to declare the names if they speak truth; the angels say
they have no knowledge except what God teaches.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 8850-8854
quote_or_summary: God tells Adam to tell the names; after Adam does so, God says
he knows the secrets of heaven and earth and what is disclosed and concealed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 8855-8859
quote_or_summary: God commands the angels to worship Adam; all worship except Eblis,
who refuses, is puffed up with pride, and becomes one of the unbelievers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 8787-8789
quote_or_summary: The revelation is described as sent down to 'our servant,' and
doubters are challenged to produce a chapter like it.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: note s
quote_or_summary: The translator's note glosses 'your witnesses besides God' as
false gods and idols.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: note o-p-q
quote_or_summary: Translator's notes explain the fire comparison as directed at
unbelieving Arabians who desired a prophet but resist conviction; the note also
comments on the shift to plural reference for unbelievers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: note r
quote_or_summary: 'Translator''s note says unbelieving Arabs are compared to people
caught in a violent storm, and reports an interpretation in which the tempest
images the Koran: thunder as threats, lightning as promises, and darkness as mysteries.'
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: Extraction is based on the supplied English passage and translator notes.
Motif labels use only available taxonomy references where directly supported;
comparison claims are limited to internal parabolic comparisons supported by the
passage and notes.
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 external sources or unstated identifications were used. The figure labeled 'servant' is not further identified beyond the supplied passage.
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