batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l1729-l1825
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l1729-l1825
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
passage_locator:
label: THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 1729-1825
start: '1729'
end: '1825'
translation: The Mesnevi
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Jelāl answers praise of the Perwāna with an anecdote of a fallen camel
protected by an amulet from wild beasts, then compares himself to an amulet protecting
the world. The passage reports ensuing deaths and disturbances after Jelāl’s death.
Jelāl also explains a statement about seeing God in all things, resolving an objection
about receptacle and contained by saying God comprises all things. In another
episode, Jelāl admonishes an old man grieving for a lost son to seek God; news
then arrives that the son has been found, and witnesses become followers. The
passage ends with the start of another lecture scene involving a young man taking
a higher seat than an old man.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A company of dervishes and learned men praise the Perwāna in Jelāl’s presence,
and Jelāl agrees before introducing an anecdote.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: In Jelāl’s anecdote, pilgrims travelling toward Mekka abandon an exhausted
camel in the desert after transferring its load to another animal.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Wild beasts surround the fallen camel but do not attack while an amulet remains
on its neck.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: After one pilgrim removes the amulet and withdraws, the wild beasts attack
and tear the camel apart.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Jelāl explicitly likens the world to the camel and his own existence among
the learned to the amulet on the camel’s neck.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Jelāl says that when a divine mandate calls him back to the Lord and he is
removed, people will see what happens to the world and its inhabitants.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The narrator states that these words were spoken shortly before Jelāl’s death,
after which the Sultan, learned men, nobles, and the land experienced deaths and
troubles for a season.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: During an exposition, Jelāl says that one sees nothing unless one sees God
therein.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: A dervish objects that the word “therein” implies a receptacle, which he argues
cannot be predicated of God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Jelāl answers that the universe of God’s qualities and the universe of God’s
essence are apparently two but truly one, and that God comprises exterior, interior,
and all things.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: The objecting dervish is convinced, bows, and declares himself a disciple.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: In Salāhu-’d-Dīn the Goldbeater’s shop, an old man comes to Jelāl lamenting
the loss of his seven-year-old son.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:13
text: Jelāl rebukes the old man’s excessive grief and says mankind has lost God
without searching for Him in the same way.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:14
text: Jelāl counsels the old man to seek the Lord so that his lost Joseph may be
found and he may be comforted like Jacob.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:15
text: After the old man follows Jelāl’s advice and begs God’s forgiveness, news
arrives that his son has been found.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:16
text: Many witnesses of the old man’s episode become devoted followers of Jelāl.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:17
text: The next episode begins with Jelāl lecturing when a young man of distinction
enters and takes a seat above an old man in the audience.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Jelāl
description: Spiritual teacher whose speech frames the anecdotes and doctrinal explanation;
he compares himself to an amulet protecting the world, answers a dervish’s objection,
and counsels a grieving old man.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Perwāna
description: Person praised by dervishes and learned men in Jelāl’s presence.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Dervishes and learned men
description: Group who extol the Perwāna; learned men are also part of Jelāl’s later
world-camel analogy.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Company of pilgrims
description: Travellers toward Mekka who transfer the load from an exhausted camel,
abandon it, and continue their journey.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Fallen camel
description: Exhausted camel abandoned in the desert, protected while an amulet
hangs from its neck and destroyed after the amulet is removed.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Ravenous wild beasts
description: Wolves, jackals, and other beasts that surround the camel and attack
only after the amulet is removed.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Pilgrim investigator
description: A member of the caravan who returns, discovers the amulet on the camel’s
neck, removes it, and withdraws.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: World and its inhabitants
description: The world is compared by Jelāl to the fallen camel; its inhabitants
include sultans, doctors, and scribes.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Sultan, learned men, and nobles
description: People who die after Jelāl’s death, according to the narrator’s report.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Objecting dervish
description: Dervish who challenges Jelāl’s wording about seeing God “therein,”
then bows and becomes a disciple.
role_refs:
- role:12
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: God
description: Divine referent of Jelāl’s discourse, described as comprising exterior,
interior, and all things; also the Lord whom the old man is told to seek.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Salāhu-’d-Dīn the Goldbeater
description: Jelāl’s great disciple whose shop is the setting for the episode of
the old man and lost son.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Circle of disciples
description: Disciples surrounding Jelāl and listening to his discourse in Salāhu-’d-Dīn’s
shop.
role_refs:
- role:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Old man seeking his son
description: An elder who laments loudly over his missing seven-year-old son, accepts
Jelāl’s counsel, and receives news of the child’s recovery.
role_refs:
- role:17
- role:18
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Lost seven-year-old son
description: The old man’s little son, missing for several days and later reported
found.
role_refs:
- role:19
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Witnesses
description: People who witness the old man’s episode and become devoted followers
of Jelāl.
role_refs:
- role:20
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: Young man of distinction
description: Young man who enters during a lecture, pushes his way forward, and
takes a seat above an old man.
role_refs:
- role:21
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:18
name_or_label: Old man in the audience
description: Old man in Jelāl’s audience below whom the young man seats himself.
role_refs:
- role:22
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: spiritual teacher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jelāl teaches through anecdote, doctrinal explanation, and counsel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:2
label: protective presence
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jelāl compares his existence among the learned to an amulet on the world-camel
that prevents disaster.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: foreteller of posthumous trouble
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He says people will see what becomes of the world when he is removed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: praised notable
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The group extols the Perwāna, and Jelāl says he merits their eulogies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: praising audience
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They praise the Perwāna in Jelāl’s presence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:6
label: pilgrim caravan
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: They travel toward Mekka and continue after abandoning the fallen camel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: abandoned vulnerable animal
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The camel collapses, is abandoned, and later attacked.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: threatening predators
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They surround the camel and later tear it apart.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:9
label: remover of protection
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: He returns to the camel, finds the amulet, and removes it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:10
label: protected world-body
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Jelāl identifies the world with the camel in the anecdote.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:11
label: posthumous dead and troubled elites
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: They follow Jelāl to the grave after his death, while troubles overwhelm
the land.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:12
label: doctrinal objector
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The dervish challenges Jelāl’s use of “therein.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:13
label: converted disciple
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: After Jelāl’s answer, the dervish bows and declares himself a disciple.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:14
label: all-comprising divine reality
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Jelāl says God comprises exterior, interior, all existences, and all things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:15
label: host disciple
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The episode occurs in the shop of Jelāl’s great disciple Salāhu-’d-Dīn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:16
label: listening disciples
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: They surround Jelāl and listen to his discourse.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:17
label: grieving supplicant
assigned_to:
- fig:14
basis: He enters beating his breast and lamenting over his lost son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:18
label: advised seeker of God
assigned_to:
- fig:14
basis: Jelāl tells him to seek the Lord and he follows the advice.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:19
label: lost and recovered child
assigned_to:
- fig:15
basis: The son is lost for several days and later reported found.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: role:20
label: witnesses turned followers
assigned_to:
- fig:16
basis: Many witnesses become devoted followers of Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:21
label: status-seeking entrant
assigned_to:
- fig:17
basis: He pushes forward and sits higher than an old man.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:22
label: lower-seated elder
assigned_to:
- fig:18
basis: He is the old man above whom the young man takes a seat.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: protective amulet
literal_form: Amulet suspended on the fallen camel’s neck
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: world-camel
literal_form: Fallen camel used by Jelāl as an analogy for the world
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: pilgrim caravan
literal_form: Company of pilgrims travelling toward Mekka
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: removed protection before destruction
literal_form: Removal of the amulet followed by the beasts’ attack
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: receptacle and recepted
literal_form: Doctrinal image of container and contained used in the debate over
God’s comprehensibility
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:10
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: lost Joseph and comforted Jacob
literal_form: Biblical-Qur’anic family image invoked for the old man’s lost child
and hoped-for recovery
associated_figures:
- fig:14
- fig:15
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:7
label: lost God
literal_form: Jelāl’s statement that mankind has lost God and does not search with
the old man’s intensity
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:11
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Praise of Perwāna and the camel amulet parable
summary: Jelāl responds to praise of the Perwāna by telling of pilgrims who abandon
a fallen camel; wild beasts refrain from attacking until an amulet is removed,
after which the camel is torn apart.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Jelāl interprets the camel as the world
summary: Jelāl identifies the world with the camel and his own presence with the
amulet, warning that when he is divinely called back and removed, the world and
its inhabitants will be exposed to trouble.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:8
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Death of Jelāl and ensuing disturbances
summary: The narrator reports that Jelāl spoke shortly before his death, after which
the Sultan and other prominent men died and the land experienced troubles until
God granted peace.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:11
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Doctrinal debate on seeing God therein
summary: A dervish objects to Jelāl’s phrase about seeing God in all things; Jelāl
answers by explaining apparent duality and real unity, and the dervish becomes
a disciple.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Old man, lost son, and search for God
summary: In Salāhu-’d-Dīn’s shop, an old man asks help for his missing son. Jelāl
redirects him from noisy grief toward seeking God, invokes the image of Joseph
and Jacob, and news arrives that the child has been found.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
- fig:15
- fig:16
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:6
label: Beginning of seating-rank episode
summary: A young man of distinction enters during a lecture, pushes forward, and
sits above an old man in the audience.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:17
- fig:18
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: holy person as protective amulet for the world
taxonomy_refs:
- world_center
basis: Jelāl explicitly compares his presence among the learned to an amulet on
the world-camel; the amulet’s removal in the parable precedes destruction, and
Jelāl’s death is followed by deaths and social trouble.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage uses an explicit analogy, but the available taxonomy has no
exact amulet-protection category; “world_center” is an approximate fit because
Jelāl’s presence functions as a sustaining focus.
- id: motif:2
label: removal of sacred protection followed by disorder
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The parable’s camel is attacked after its amulet is removed, and Jelāl applies
this to the world after his removal; the narrator then reports posthumous troubles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level pattern rather than a mapped taxonomy motif.
- id: motif:3
label: divine immanence and unity beyond apparent duality
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: Jelāl explains that God comprises exterior, interior, and all things, and
that apparently distinct divine qualities and essence are truly one.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents metaphysical unity, but does not explicitly describe
annihilation of the self; taxonomy match is approximate.
- id: motif:4
label: lost worldly beloved redirected to quest for God
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- divine_beloved
basis: Jelāl tells the old man grieving for a lost son that mankind has lost God
and should seek the Lord, then the child is found after the old man follows the
advice.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage uses the loss of a child to teach spiritual seeking; “divine_beloved”
is implied by seeking God but not phrased in those exact terms.
- id: motif:5
label: spiritual counsel leading to recovery and discipleship
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- initiation
basis: Jelāl’s counsel leads the old man to repentance, news of the child’s recovery,
and witnesses becoming followers; the objecting dervish also becomes a disciple
after doctrinal instruction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The conversion/followership pattern is explicit, but “initiation” is broad
and not formalized in the passage.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1729-1734
quote_or_summary: Dervishes and learned men praise the Perwāna; Jelāl agrees and
introduces an anecdote to qualify the praise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1735-1741
quote_or_summary: Pilgrims travelling toward Mekka abandon an exhausted camel in
the desert after moving its load to another animal.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1742-1751
quote_or_summary: Wild beasts surround but do not attack the fallen camel until
a returned pilgrim removes an amulet from its neck; then they tear it apart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1752-1764
quote_or_summary: Jelāl likens the world to the camel and his own existence to the
amulet; he says that when the divine mandate calls him back to the Lord and he
is removed, the fate of the world and its inhabitants will be seen.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 1765-1771
quote_or_summary: The narrator says Jelāl spoke shortly before his death; after
his death the Sultan, learned men, and nobles followed him to the grave, and troubles
overwhelmed the land for a season until God granted peace.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 1772-1781
quote_or_summary: Jelāl says one sees nothing unless one sees God therein; a dervish
objects that “therein” implies a receptacle, which he says cannot apply to God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 1782-1796
quote_or_summary: Jelāl answers that the apparent receptacle and recepted differ
in time but are really one; God comprises exterior, interior, all existences,
and all things.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 1797-1798
quote_or_summary: The dervish is convinced, bows, and declares himself a disciple.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 1799-1807
quote_or_summary: Jelāl sits in Salāhu-’d-Dīn the Goldbeater’s shop among disciples
when an old man enters lamenting and asks help finding his seven-year-old son,
missing for several days.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 1808-1819
quote_or_summary: Jelāl rebukes the old man’s excessive grief, says mankind has
lost God without searching for Him, and advises seeking the Lord so that the lost
Joseph may be found and he may be comforted like Jacob.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 1820-1823
quote_or_summary: The old man follows Jelāl’s advice and begs God’s forgiveness;
news arrives that his son has been found, and many witnesses become devoted followers
of Jelāl.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 1824-1825
quote_or_summary: 'A new episode begins: during a lecture, a young man of distinction
enters, pushes forward, and takes a seat above an old man.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is strongly supported by the supplied passage. Motif taxonomy
mappings are cautious because several passage-specific patterns, especially the
amulet-world analogy, lack exact available taxonomy references. No comparison
claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly support historical
or cross-tradition comparison beyond its own Qur’anic and Joseph/Jacob allusions.
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: |-
Only supplied passage text and metadata were used. Available symbol taxonomy entries did not include amulet, camel, caravan, or receptacle, so symbol taxonomy references were left empty.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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