batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l9415-l9483
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l9415-l9483
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 9415-9483
start: '9415'
end: '9483'
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 condemns hostility to God, angels, apostles, Gabriel, and Michael;
describes evident signs and rejected covenants; says some scripture-recipients
cast God's book behind them; recounts devils teaching sorcery associated with
Solomon, while denying Solomon's unbelief; and describes Hart and Mart at Babel
warning learners that they are a temptation before teaching a charm that can divide
a husband and wife only by God's permission. Sale's notes add explanations about
Gabriel, Michael, Solomon, magical books hidden under Solomon's throne, the story
of Hart and Mart as angels punished at Babel, and comparisons with Persian and
Jewish angel stories.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: God is described as an enemy to unbelievers who are enemies to God, his angels,
his apostles, Gabriel, or Michael.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Evident signs are said to have been sent down, and only evil-doers are said
to disbelieve them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Some people are described as rejecting a covenant whenever they make one.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: An apostle from God comes confirming scripture already with the scripture-recipients,
and some of them cast the book of God behind their backs.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The devils are said to have devised something against the kingdom of Solomon,
while the passage states that Solomon was not an unbeliever.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The devils are described as teaching men sorcery.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Hart and Mart at Babel teach no one until first warning that they are a temptation
and telling the learner not to become an unbeliever.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Men learn from Hart and Mart a charm by which they may cause division between
a man and his wife.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The charm harms no one except by God's permission, and the learned art is
described as harmful rather than profitable.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: The passage says those who bought that art would have no share in the life
to come and had sold their souls for a woful price.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:11
text: Sale's note says devils hid books of magic under Solomon's throne after his
death to damage his reputation, and that some common people learned the arts in
those books.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:12
text: Sale's note reports a story in which Hart and Mart are chosen from among angels
to judge on earth, encounter Zohara or Venus as a beautiful woman, desire her,
are not admitted back to heaven, and choose punishment in this life at Babel until
the day of judgment.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:13
text: Sale's note says a person wishing to learn magic may hear Hart and Mart's
voice but cannot see them.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:14
text: Sale's note explicitly compares the Hart and Mart story with Persian Magi
accounts of two rebellious angels in Babel and with a Jewish story about Shamhozai
suspended between heaven and earth.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:15
text: Sale's note identifies Michael as protector or guardian angel of the Jews
and Gabriel as an angel of revelations.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: Divine authority who sends signs, opposes unbelievers, permits or withholds
harm, gives reward, and is associated with judgment about the life to come.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Gabriel
description: Named angel; Sale's note calls him an angel of revelations.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Michael
description: Named angel; Sale's note calls him protector or guardian angel of the
Jews and messenger of peace and plenty.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Apostle from God
description: Messenger from God who confirms scripture already possessed by scripture-recipients.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Some scripture-recipients / covenant rejecters
description: People described as rejecting covenants and casting the book of God
behind their backs.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Devils
description: Beings said to devise against Solomon's kingdom and teach men sorcery;
Sale's note says they hide books of magic under Solomon's throne.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Solomon
description: King whose kingdom is linked with the devils' devices; the passage
denies that he was an unbeliever.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Hart and Mart
description: Two angels at Babel associated with teaching magic after warning learners;
Sale's note describes them as punished at Babel until judgment.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Men learning sorcery
description: Learners who receive sorcery from devils or learn a charm from Hart
and Mart.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: A man and his wife
description: Married pair whom the learned charm may divide.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Zohara / planet Venus
description: In Sale's note, a figure who descends and appears as a beautiful woman
bringing a complaint against her husband; Hart and Mart fall in love with her.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Pious man
description: In Sale's note, an intercessor after Hart and Mart are not admitted
back to heaven.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Shamhozai
description: In Sale's comparative note, a Jewish angel who sins with women, repents,
and hangs himself between heaven and earth as penance.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Divine authority and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God sends signs, controls permission for harm, and is the source of reward
or exclusion from the life to come.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: Named angelic messenger or guardian
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
basis: Gabriel and Michael are named among angels; Sale's note assigns Gabriel revelatory
function and Michael guardian function.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: Scripture-confirming messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The apostle from God confirms the scripture already with the recipients.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: Covenant and scripture rejecter
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They reject covenants and cast the book of God behind their backs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: Deceptive sorcery-teacher
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The devils devise against Solomon and teach men sorcery; the note says they
hide magical books to damage Solomon's reputation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: Exonerated king
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The passage explicitly states that Solomon was not an unbeliever despite
the devils' devices against his kingdom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: Warning magical instructor
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Hart and Mart teach only after warning that they are a temptation and telling
learners not to become unbelievers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: Punished descended angel
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Sale's note reports that Hart and Mart descend to earth, fail through desire,
and suffer punishment in Babel until judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: Learner or buyer of harmful art
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Men learn sorcery or a charm that harms rather than profits, and the buyer
of the art loses share in the life to come.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:10
label: Potentially divided spouses
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The charm is described as able to cause division between a man and his wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:11
label: Desired woman in angelic fall story
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Zohara or Venus appears as a beautiful woman, and Hart and Mart fall in love
with her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:12
label: Intercessor
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: A pious man intercedes after Hart and Mart are not admitted back to heaven.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:13
label: Comparative penitent fallen angel
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: Sale's note presents Shamhozai as a Jewish parallel who sins, repents, and
suspends himself between heaven and earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Covenant
literal_form: Covenant or agreement made and then rejected
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: Book of God
literal_form: Scripture cast behind the backs of some recipients
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: Sorcery and charm
literal_form: Magical art or charm learned from devils or from Hart and Mart
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: Babel
literal_form: Place where Hart and Mart teach or suffer punishment
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: Hidden books under the throne
literal_form: Books of magic hidden under Solomon's throne in Sale's note
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: Zohara / Venus as beautiful woman
literal_form: Planet Venus or a woman appearing in beautiful form
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: Suspension between heaven and earth
literal_form: Punitive or penitential hanging between heaven and earth in the comparative
Jewish note
associated_figures:
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:8
label: Life to come
literal_form: Afterlife share denied to the buyer of the magical art
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Condemnation of hostility to God and angels
summary: The passage states that whoever is an enemy to God, angels, apostles, Gabriel,
or Michael is opposed by God as an unbeliever.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Rejected covenant and scripture
summary: Evident signs are sent down; some people reject covenants and some scripture-recipients
cast God's book behind them when an apostle confirms their scripture.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Sorcery attributed to devils rather than Solomon
summary: The passage says devils devised against Solomon's kingdom and taught sorcery,
while Solomon is declared not to be an unbeliever.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Hart and Mart teach with a warning
summary: At Babel, Hart and Mart warn learners that they are a temptation; learners
acquire a charm that may divide spouses but harms only by God's permission and
damages the learner's afterlife prospects.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Magical books hidden under Solomon's throne
summary: Sale's note explains that devils hid magical books beneath Solomon's throne
after his death to slander him, and that some people learned the evil arts.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Descent, temptation, and punishment of Hart and Mart
summary: Sale's note recounts that Hart and Mart descend as judges, are tempted
through desire for Zohara, are barred from heaven, and choose punishment in this
life at Babel until the day of judgment.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:11
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Comparative angel traditions
summary: Sale's note compares Hart and Mart with Persian rebellious angels punished
in Babel and with the Jewish angel Shamhozai suspended between heaven and earth.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Rejected covenant and discarded scripture
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The passage describes covenants being rejected and the book of God being
cast behind the backs of some scripture-recipients.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is polemical and does not narrate a single covenant-making
event in detail.
- id: motif:2
label: Forbidden or dangerous magical knowledge
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
basis: Devils teach sorcery; Hart and Mart teach a charm only after warning learners;
the art harms rather than profits and endangers the learner's share in the life
to come.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the knowledge as a temptation rather than simply as
secret wisdom.
- id: motif:3
label: Charm that divides spouses
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Men learn from Hart and Mart a charm by which they may cause division between
a man and his wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: No broader marriage myth is narrated in the main passage.
- id: motif:4
label: Trickster slander through hidden magical books
taxonomy_refs:
- trickster_boundary
- forbidden_knowledge
basis: Sale's note says devils hide magical books under Solomon's throne to damage
his reputation and induce people to learn evil arts.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: This is from the translator's explanatory note, not the translated Qur'anic
line itself.
- id: motif:5
label: Angels descend, are tempted, and are punished until judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
- divine_judgment
basis: Sale's note recounts Hart and Mart being sent down to judge, desiring Zohara,
being refused return to heaven, and choosing punishment in this life at Babel
until judgment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The longer narrative is explicitly introduced as a reported fable in the
note, with variant accounts.
- id: motif:6
label: Divine permission limits magical harm
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage states that the charm hurts no one unless by God's permission.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a theological constraint on the magic motif rather than a separate
full narrative episode.
- id: motif:7
label: Angelic messenger and guardian functions
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Gabriel and Michael are named; Sale's note identifies Gabriel with revelations
and Michael with protection or guardianship of the Jews.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The functional identifications are supplied by the translator's note.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: Sale's note asserts that the Hart and Mart story was taken from Persian Magi
traditions about two rebellious angels of the same names punished in the territory
of Babel.
claim_level: historical_contact
target: Persian Magi tradition of two rebellious angels punished at Babel
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The passage provides a translator's assertion of borrowing but no independent
demonstration within the excerpt.
- id: claim:2
claim: Sale's note presents a Jewish story of Shamhozai as similar to the Hart and
Mart material, especially in the theme of an angel sinning with women and undergoing
suspended penance.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Jewish story of the angel Shamhozai suspended between heaven and earth
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The note says only that the Jews have 'something like this'; the excerpt
gives a brief parallel rather than a full comparative account.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage's sorcery episode fits a broader forbidden-knowledge pattern
in which supernatural beings transmit dangerous arts after a warning, with moral
and afterlife consequences for learners.
claim_level: same_function
target: forbidden_knowledge motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The available taxonomy supplies the motif family, but the passage itself
does not use comparative terminology.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 9415-9419
quote_or_summary: Enemies of God, angels, apostles, Gabriel, or Michael are enemies
opposed by God; evident signs are sent down and disbelieved only by evil-doers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 9420-9425
quote_or_summary: Some reject covenants; when an apostle from God confirms existing
scripture, some scripture-recipients cast the book of God behind their backs.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 9426-9430
quote_or_summary: The passage says people followed what devils devised against Solomon's
kingdom; Solomon was not an unbeliever; the devils taught men sorcery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 9430-9438
quote_or_summary: Hart and Mart at Babel warn learners that they are a temptation;
men learn a charm to divide husband and wife, though harm occurs only by God's
permission; the art harms the learner and costs a share in the life to come.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 9450-9461
quote_or_summary: Sale's note says devils hid books of magic under Solomon's throne
after his death to slander him; some refused the arts, others learned them, and
Solomon was cleared of idolatry.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 9462-9477
quote_or_summary: Sale's note recounts variants in which Hart and Mart are angels
sent to teach magic and tempt; in a longer story they descend as judges, desire
Zohara/Venus, are barred from heaven, choose punishment in this life, and remain
in Babel until judgment; their voice may be heard though they cannot be seen.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 9478-9483
quote_or_summary: Sale's note says the story comes from Persian Magi accounts of
two rebellious angels of the same names hung upside down in Babel, and that Jewish
tradition has a similar story of Shamhozai, who sinned with women, repented, and
hung between heaven and earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 9441-9449
quote_or_summary: Sale's note says Michael was protector or guardian angel of the
Jews, while Gabriel was associated with revelations and messages.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: low
notes: Main translated passage is straightforward, but several narrative details
and comparisons come from Sale's notes and should be reviewed separately from
the Qur'anic translation.
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: |-
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