batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l9551-l9615
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l9551-l9615
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 9551-9615
start: '9551'
end: '9615'
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 denies that God has children, affirms God's possession and
creation of heaven and earth by command, addresses demands for direct divine speech
or signs, describes the messenger as sent in truth, warns against following other
religious desires, recalls divine favor to Israel and a day of judgment, and recounts
Abraham's testing, covenant, and association with the holy house at Mecca, including
Abraham and Ismael raising its foundations and praying for acceptance and a resigned
posterity.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A claim that God has begotten children is rejected, and God is described as
owning whatever is in heaven and on earth.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God is described as creator of heaven and earth who brings a decreed thing
into being by saying, “Be.”
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Some people who do not know the scriptures demand that God speak to them or
that a sign be shown before they believe.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The addressed messenger is said to have been sent in truth as a bearer of
good tidings and a preacher.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The Jews and Christians are said not to be pleased until the addressed figure
follows their religion, while God's direction is called the true direction.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Those given the book who read it with its true reading are said to believe
in it; those who do not believe are said to perish.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The children of Israel are told to remember divine favor and to dread a day
when no soul can satisfy for another, compensation is not accepted, intercession
does not avail, and they are not helped.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Abraham is tried by certain words, fulfills them, and is told that he will
be constituted a model of religion for mankind; the covenant is said not to include
the ungodly.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The holy house of Mecca is appointed as a place of resort and security, and
the station of Abraham is designated as a place of prayer.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: Abraham and Ismael are covenanted with to cleanse the house for those who
compass it, remain devoutly there, bow down, and worship.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Abraham asks that the place be made a territory of security and that believing
inhabitants receive fruits; God says unbelievers will receive little and then
be driven to hell fire.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: Abraham and Ismael raise the foundations of the house and ask God to accept
it from them, make them resigned to him, create from their posterity a resigned
people, show them holy ceremonies, and turn toward them mercifully.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine speaker and actor who owns heaven and earth, creates by
decree, sends the messenger, makes covenant, appoints the house, and answers Abraham.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Those who say God has begotten children
description: A collective group whose statement about divine children is rejected.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Those who know not the scriptures
description: A collective group demanding direct divine speech or a sign as a condition
for belief.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: The addressed messenger
description: The figure addressed as having been sent in truth as a bearer of good
tidings and a preacher.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: The Jews
description: A group said not to be pleased with the addressed figure until he follows
their religion.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: The Christians
description: A group said not to be pleased with the addressed figure until he follows
their religion.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Those given the book
description: A group described as reading the book with its true reading and believing
in it.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Children of Israel
description: The addressed descendants or community told to remember divine favor
and dread the day of judgment.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Abraham
description: A figure tested by God, made a model of religion for mankind, associated
with the station of prayer, and joined with Ismael in raising the house's foundations.
role_refs:
- role:8
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Ismael
description: A figure covenanted with Abraham to cleanse the house and joined with
Abraham in raising its foundations.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Inhabitants of the secure territory
description: The people for whom Abraham asks security and fruits, with a distinction
between believers and unbelievers.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Creator and possessor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God is said to possess whatever is in heaven and on earth and to be the creator
of heaven and earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: Decreeing speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: When God decrees a thing, he says to it, “Be,” and it is.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: Covenant giver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God declares a covenant in connection with Abraham and says it does not include
the ungodly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: Bearer of good tidings and preacher
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The addressed messenger is explicitly described as sent in truth in this
capacity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: Judge and punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage describes a day of non-transferable accountability and says unbelievers
will be driven to hell fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: Demanders or makers of rejected claims
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
basis: One group makes a rejected claim about divine children, and another demands
divine speech or a sign before belief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: True readers and believers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: They are described as reading the book with its true reading and believing
therein.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: Model of religion
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: After fulfilling the trial, Abraham is told he will be constituted a model
of religion for mankind.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: House builders and cleansers
assigned_to:
- fig:9
- fig:10
basis: Abraham and Ismael are covenanted with to cleanse the house, and they raise
its foundations.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Heaven and earth
literal_form: heaven and earth
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: Creative command
literal_form: the spoken command “Be”
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: Sign
literal_form: a sign requested as a condition for belief
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: Book
literal_form: the book read with its true reading
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: Day of judgment
literal_form: a day when no soul can satisfy for another and no compensation or
intercession avails
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: Covenant
literal_form: God's covenant concerning Abraham and excluding the ungodly
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: Holy house of Mecca
literal_form: the holy house of Mecca, a place of resort and security
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: sym:8
label: Station of Abraham
literal_form: the station of Abraham designated as a place of prayer
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:9
label: Hell fire
literal_form: hell fire
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:10
label: Fruits
literal_form: fruits bestowed on the inhabitants of the secure territory
associated_figures:
- fig:11
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:11
label: Foundations of the house
literal_form: the raised foundations of the house
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Denial of divine children and creation by command
summary: The passage rejects the claim that God has children, affirms God's ownership
of heaven and earth, and describes creation by divine decree and speech.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Demand for divine speech or signs
summary: People without scriptural knowledge demand that God speak to them or that
a sign be shown before they believe; their attitude is compared within the passage
to earlier people who spoke similarly.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Mission and disputed religious direction
summary: The addressed messenger is described as sent in truth, while Jews and Christians
are said not to be pleased unless he follows their religion; God's direction is
called the true direction.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Book, Israel, and judgment warning
summary: True readers of the book are associated with belief, the children of Israel
are told to remember divine favor, and a day of non-transferable accountability
is described.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Abraham tested and covenanted
summary: God tests Abraham, Abraham fulfills the trial, and God declares him a model
of religion for mankind while limiting the covenant so it does not include the
ungodly.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Holy house appointed and cleansed
summary: The holy house at Mecca is appointed as a resort and secure place, the
station of Abraham is made a place of prayer, and Abraham and Ismael are tasked
with cleansing the house for worshippers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:7
label: Abraham's prayer for the territory and the house
summary: Abraham asks for security and provision for the territory's inhabitants;
God answers concerning believers and unbelievers. Abraham and Ismael raise the
house's foundations and pray for acceptance, resignation, rites, and mercy.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine parent-child claim rejected
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_parent_child
basis: The passage directly reports and rejects the statement that God has begotten
children.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The motif appears as a polemical denial rather than as an enacted divine-parent
narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: Creation by divine speech
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Creation or coming-into-being is described through God's decree and spoken
command, “Be.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly names creation by command.
- id: motif:3
label: Demand for revelatory sign
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A group demands that God speak to them or that a sign be shown before belief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives the demand but does not narrate a new sign event in
this section.
- id: motif:4
label: Divine judgment and non-transferable accountability
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage warns of a day when no soul can satisfy for another, compensation
and intercession fail, and no help is given; it also mentions punishment in hell
fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: Details of the judgment scene are stated as warning rather than narrated
in full.
- id: motif:5
label: Covenant with Abraham
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: God tests Abraham, appoints him a model of religion, and states that the
covenant does not include the ungodly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The covenant's full legal or ritual content is not elaborated in this
excerpt.
- id: motif:6
label: Sacred center as secure house of worship
taxonomy_refs:
- world_center
basis: The holy house of Mecca is appointed as a resort and secure place, with a
station for prayer and rites of circumambulation, devotion, bowing, and worship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The label world center is inferential from the house's role as a resort
for mankind and place of security; the passage does not use the term center.
- id: motif:7
label: Sacred construction by ancestral figures
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Abraham and Ismael raise the foundations of the house and pray for divine
acceptance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family specifically covers sacred building foundation
narratives.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 9551-9555
quote_or_summary: The passage rejects the claim that God has begotten children,
states that all in heaven and earth belongs to God, and says that when God decrees
a thing he says “Be” and it is.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized with a short phrase.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 9556-9559
quote_or_summary: Those who do not know the scriptures ask for God to speak to them
or for a sign; the passage says earlier people spoke similarly and that manifest
signs have been shown to firm believers.
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 9560-9561
quote_or_summary: The addressed figure is sent in truth as a bearer of good tidings
and a preacher, and is not to be questioned about the companions of hell.
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 9562-9566
quote_or_summary: The Jews and Christians are said not to be pleased until the addressed
figure follows their religion; God's direction is called true direction, and following
their desires after knowledge would leave no patron or protector against God.
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 9567-9569
quote_or_summary: Those given the book who read it with its true reading believe
in it, while whoever does not believe in it will perish.
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 9570-9574
quote_or_summary: The children of Israel are told to remember divine favor and dread
a day when one soul cannot satisfy for another, compensation is not accepted,
intercession does not avail, and no help is given.
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 9575-9579
quote_or_summary: God tests Abraham by certain words, Abraham fulfills them, and
God says he will make Abraham a model of religion for mankind; Abraham asks about
his posterity, and God says the covenant does not include the ungodly.
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 9580-9586
quote_or_summary: The holy house of Mecca is appointed as a place of resort and
security; the station of Abraham is made a place of prayer; Abraham and Ismael
are covenanted with to cleanse the house for those who compass it, remain devout,
bow down, and worship.
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 9587-9592
quote_or_summary: Abraham asks God to make the place a secure territory and bestow
fruits on believing inhabitants; God answers that unbelievers will receive little
and then be driven to the punishment of hell fire.
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 9593-9598
quote_or_summary: Abraham and Ismael raise the foundations of the house and ask
God to accept it, make them and their posterity resigned to him, show them holy
ceremonies, and turn mercifully toward them.
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 9599-9615, translator notes e-k
quote_or_summary: Translator notes identify groups accused of claims about divine
children, explain possible meanings of Abraham's trial, gloss the Arabic title
translated as model of religion, identify the holy house as the Caaba, describe
the station of Abraham, and gloss the term translated as resigned.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized translator notes.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Main events and figures are explicit in the passage. Motif labels involving
world center or divine parent-child are partly interpretive because the passage
presents denial or sacred-place function rather than extended mythic narration.
No comparison claims were added because the excerpt does not itself substantiate
a specific cross-tradition comparison beyond internal references.
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 text and metadata. Translator notes were summarized as evidence but not used to add unsupported narrative details.
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