batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l1603-l1727
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passage_locator:
label: THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 1603-1727
start: '1603'
end: '1727'
translation: The Mesnevi
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A sequence of anecdotes presents Jelāl revealing the cause of a merchant’s
misfortunes, miraculously showing him a distant Firengī saint, sending him to
seek forgiveness, and receiving him into the fraternity after reconciliation.
Jelāl also ends a quarrel with a rebuke, teaches students through a parable about
a grammarian trapped in a well, and applies the parable to self-love and discipleship.
The passage closes by introducing Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn, the Perwāna of Qonya, as a friend
and disciple of Jelāl.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Jelāl tells the merchant that his previous losses and misfortunes resulted
from having spat on a poor Firengī man described as one of God’s cherished saints.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Jelāl places his hand on the wall, a doorway opens, and the merchant sees
the distant Firengī man lying in a marketplace.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The merchant travels to the city shown to him, finds the Firengī dervish lying
down, dismounts, and makes obeisance to him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The Firengī dervish embraces and kisses the merchant, then tells him to look
and witness Jelāl immersed in holy dance, chanting, and sacred music.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: After returning to Qonya, the merchant conveys the Firengī saint’s salutations,
gives substance to the disciples, settles there, and joins the fraternity of the
Pure Lovers of God.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Jelāl intervenes between two quarrelling men by offering to hear a thousand
sayings and answer with one word, after which the adversaries are abashed and
make peace.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: A professor’s pupils plan to question Jelāl on Arabic grammar in order to
compare his knowledge with their professor’s.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: In Jelāl’s anecdote, a jurist and a grammarian dispute the pronunciation of
the word for well until night, and the grammarian falls into the well.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The grammarian refuses to concede the pronunciation dispute even when the
jurist makes that concession a condition for helping him out of the well.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Jelāl interprets the anecdote as a lesson about casting the hiatus of indecision
and self-love from the heart in order to escape the pit of self-worship.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: The undergraduates uncover their heads and profess themselves Jelāl’s spiritual
disciples.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn, titled the Perwāna, is described as a governor of Qonya, a
friend of dervishes and the learned, and Jelāl’s loving disciple.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: merchant
description: A merchant who had suffered losses, had offended a poor Firengī saint,
sought forgiveness, and later joined the fraternity at Qonya.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Jelāl
description: The spiritual master who reveals the hidden cause of misfortune, opens
a vision through a wall, appears in sacred dance, reconciles quarrelers, and teaches
students by parable.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:6
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Firengī saint or dervish
description: A poor Firengī man in a marketplace, called one of God’s cherished
saints, who had been offended by the merchant and later embraces and instructs
him.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: two quarrelling men
description: Two men in a street whose dispute is ended after Jelāl’s rebuke.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: learned professor
description: A professor who brings his pupils to pay respects to Jelāl.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: professor’s pupils or undergraduates
description: Young men who intend to test Jelāl’s grammatical knowledge and later
profess themselves his spiritual disciples.
role_refs:
- role:10
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: ingenuous jurist
description: A traveler in Jelāl’s anecdote who disputes with a grammarian over
a Qur’ānic word and offers help only if the grammarian concedes.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Arabic grammarian
description: A traveler in Jelāl’s anecdote who insists on a point of pronunciation,
falls into a dark well, and refuses to concede.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn, the Perwāna
description: A governor of Qonya, titled the Perwāna, described as a friend of dervishes
and the learned and a loving disciple of Jelāl.
role_refs:
- role:13
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: spiritual master
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Firengī dervish calls Jelāl his lord, teacher, and spiritual master;
the students later become Jelāl’s spiritual disciples.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: role:2
label: penitent offender
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The merchant is told he offended the saint and is sent to ask forgiveness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: hidden or unrecognized saint
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The Firengī man appears poor and prostrate in a marketplace but is described
as one of God’s cherished saints.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: forgiving dervish
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The dervish draws the merchant near, embraces him, and kisses him after the
merchant seeks him out.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: disciple
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:9
basis: The merchant joins the fraternity; the undergraduates profess themselves
spiritual disciples; Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn is called Jelāl’s loving disciple.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:6
label: miracle worker or revealer
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jelāl reveals a past hidden offense and opens a doorway in a wall through
which the distant saint is seen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: peacemaker and moral teacher
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jelāl stops a quarrel and teaches the pupils through an anecdote applied
to self-love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: reconciled adversaries
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The two quarrelling men make peace after Jelāl’s rebuke.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: learned professor
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage identifies him as a very learned professor who brings pupils
to Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:10
label: would-be testers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The young men agree to question Jelāl on Arabic grammar to compare him with
their professor.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: parable jurist
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The jurist in Jelāl’s anecdote recites a Qur’ānic text and disputes the pronunciation
of a word.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:12
label: obstinate grammarian
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The grammarian corrects the jurist, falls into the well, and refuses to concede
even when trapped.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:13
label: governor patron
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn is described as governor of Qonya and friend to dervishes,
the learned, and Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: doorway opened in the wall
literal_form: A doorway that opens in the apartment wall when Jelāl places his hand
on it, enabling sight of a distant marketplace.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: marketplace prostration
literal_form: The poor Firengī saint lying stretched out at the corner of a marketplace.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: embrace and kisses of reconciliation
literal_form: The Firengī dervish clasps the merchant to his bosom and kisses him
repeatedly on both cheeks.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: holy dance and sacred music
literal_form: Jelāl immersed in a holy dance, chanting a hymn, and entranced with
sacred music.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: ruined well or dark pit
literal_form: A ruinous well into which the grammarian falls during a dispute; later
connected by Jelāl with the pit of self-worship.
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: hiatus of indecision and self-love
literal_form: The grammatical hiatus becomes an image for indecision and self-love
in Jelāl’s application of the anecdote.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:6
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: Joseph’s well in the human breast
literal_form: Jelāl names the dungeon of Joseph’s well in the human breast as self-worship.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: spacious land of God
literal_form: The heavenly regions called the spacious land of God, contrasted with
the well of self-worship.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Jelāl reveals the merchant’s hidden offense
summary: Jelāl explains that the merchant’s misfortunes came from having spat on
a poor Firengī saint and instructs him to seek forgiveness and carry salutations.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Miraculous opening in the wall
summary: Jelāl opens a doorway in the wall, and the merchant sees the distant saint
lying in a marketplace.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Reconciliation with the Firengī dervish
summary: The merchant travels to the city, finds the dervish, makes obeisance, and
is embraced and kissed by him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Vision of Jelāl in holy dance
summary: The dervish tells the merchant to look, and the merchant sees Jelāl dancing,
chanting a hymn, and entranced with sacred music.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Merchant joins the fraternity at Qonya
summary: The merchant returns, conveys salutations, gives substance among the disciples,
settles at Qonya, and becomes a member of the fraternity.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Jelāl reconciles quarrelling men
summary: Jelāl answers a boastful threat with a humbling counter-speech, and the
two adversaries make peace.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Students prepare to test Jelāl
summary: A learned professor brings pupils to Jelāl, and the pupils intend to test
him on Arabic grammar.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Parable of the jurist, grammarian, and well
summary: Jelāl tells of a jurist and grammarian disputing a word until the grammarian
falls into a dark well and refuses to concede the point.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:9
label: Application of the parable and discipleship
summary: Jelāl interprets the well as self-worship and the hiatus as indecision
and self-love; the undergraduates then profess themselves his disciples.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:10
label: Introduction of Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn the Perwāna
summary: The passage introduces Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn as governor of Qonya, friend to dervishes
and the learned, and disciple of Jelāl.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: offense to hidden saint brings misfortune and requires reconciliation
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The merchant’s losses are explained as consequences of spitting on an unrecognized
saint, and he is instructed to seek forgiveness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage attributes the consequences to the saint’s grief and Jelāl’s
instruction; the broader taxonomy label is approximate.
- id: motif:2
label: miraculous remote vision through an opened wall
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: Jelāl opens a doorway in the wall that allows the merchant to behold the
distant Firengī saint in Europe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The event is literal in the narrative, but its placement within a broader
motif family is interpretive.
- id: motif:3
label: penitential journey ending in discipleship
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
- mystical_quest
basis: The merchant travels to make peace with the offended dervish, returns to
Qonya, distributes wealth, and joins the fraternity of the Pure Lovers of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not present formal ritual stages beyond reconciliation,
generosity, settlement, and membership.
- id: motif:4
label: peacemaking through humble reversal of verbal aggression
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Jelāl counters a quarreller’s threat of a thousandfold reply by saying that
for every thousand words he will answer with one word, leading to peace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: This is an ethical teaching anecdote rather than a developed mythic sequence.
- id: motif:5
label: learned pride trapped in a well
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The grammarian’s insistence on a technical point continues even after he
falls into the well and is offered rescue only if he concedes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The scene is an embedded anecdote told by Jelāl, not an event in the surrounding
narrative.
- id: motif:6
label: escape from self-worship as spiritual initiation
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
- mystical_quest
basis: Jelāl applies the parable to casting out indecision and self-love in order
to escape the pit of self-worship and reach the spacious land of God; the students
become disciples.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is based on Jelāl’s explicit allegorical interpretation within
the passage.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1603-1614
quote_or_summary: Jelāl tells the merchant that past losses came from spitting on
a poor Firengī man, one of God’s cherished saints, and tells him to ask forgiveness
and convey salutations.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1615-1622
quote_or_summary: Jelāl places his hand on the wall; a doorway opens, and the merchant
sees the distant Firengī man lying in a marketplace.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1623-1632
quote_or_summary: The merchant travels to the indicated city, finds the man as shown,
dismounts, and makes obeisance to the prostrate Firengī dervish.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1633-1645
quote_or_summary: The Firengī dervish embraces and kisses the merchant, tells him
to witness a marvel, and the merchant sees Jelāl in holy dance, chanting a hymn
with sacred music.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 1646-1650
quote_or_summary: The merchant returns to Qonya, gives the Firengī saint’s salutations
to Jelāl, distributes substance, settles there, and joins the fraternity of the
Pure Lovers of God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 1654-1664
quote_or_summary: Jelāl intervenes in a street quarrel, offers to answer a thousand
sayings with one word, and the adversaries become abashed and make peace.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 1667-1695
quote_or_summary: A professor’s pupils plan to test Jelāl on grammar; Jelāl tells
of a jurist and grammarian disputing the word for well until the grammarian falls
into a dark well and refuses to concede.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 1696-1705
quote_or_summary: 'Jelāl applies the story to the hearers: they must cast out the
hiatus of indecision and self-love to escape the pit of self-worship and attain
the spacious land of God.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 1706-1708
quote_or_summary: The undergraduates uncover their heads and zealously profess themselves
Jelāl’s spiritual disciples.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 1711-1727
quote_or_summary: Mu’īnu-’d-Dīn, titled the Perwāna and governor of Qonya, is described
as a friend of dervishes and the learned and as Jelāl’s loving disciple.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Narrative actions and roles are explicit. Motif taxonomy assignments are
cautious because several are ethical or hagiographic anecdotes rather than full
mythic cycles. No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does
not make an explicit cross-textual comparison.
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. Available taxonomy references were applied only where directly supportable as broad motif-family candidates.
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