batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l2177-l2298
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label: THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 2177-2298
start: '2177'
end: '2298'
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 hagiographic episodes about Jelāl: a freed merchant returns
to his teacher and is admonished toward lawful earning and contentment; Christian
individuals and groups convert after encounters with Jelāl; a disciple privately
wonders about miracles and receives a pebble that appears as a ruby; and a newly
arrived learned sheykh is answered by Jelāl at a distance through an apostrophe
and parable.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: After the Firengī prince recovers, the young merchant asks for freedom and
leave to return home to his teacher.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The merchant recounts his disobedience, vision, and Jelāl’s assistance, after
which the Firengī audience becomes believers in Jelāl without seeing him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: On returning, the merchant falls at Jelāl’s feet, kisses them, rubs his face
on them, and weeps.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Jelāl tells the merchant to remain at home, earn lawfully, and take contentment
as an exemplar after the hardships of sea, ship, captivity, and dungeon.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Jelāl questions a Christian monk about whether the monk or his beard is older,
then interprets the monk as spiritually immature.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The monk renounces his rope girdle, professes Islam, and becomes a believer.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Jelāl’s disciples express aversion toward black-habited Christian priests
or monks approaching from a distance.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Jelāl describes the black-habited ones as walking in darkness and misbelief,
but says they will become believers if the sun of righteousness rises on them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The approaching priests or monks bow to Jelāl, converse with him, and profess
themselves Muslims.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: At Husām’s country-seat, Jelāl and his friends hold a festival of holy music
and dancing until near daybreak.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: A disciple privately reflects on miracles of prophets and saints and wonders
whether Jelāl performs miracles quietly.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Jelāl calls the disciple by name, picks up a pebble, places it on the back
of his hand, and gives it to him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: The disciple examines the pebble by moonlight and sees it as a clear, brilliant,
large ruby.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:14
text: Jelāl instructs the disciple to take the stone to the queen, who accepts it
and gives silver and gifts in return.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:15
text: A newly arrived learned sheykh is offended that Jelāl does not visit him and
cites the adage that the newly arrived one is visited.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:16
text: Jelāl, while expounding in a country mosque, addresses the absent sheykh and
says he himself is the newly arrived one whom others should visit.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:17
text: Jelāl gives a parable asking whether a man arriving from Bagdād or a man leaving
his own house should pay the first visit.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Firengī prince
description: A prince who recovers health and grants the young merchant a request.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Young merchant
description: A merchant who had disobeyed, endured sea travel, ship trouble, captivity,
and dungeon darkness, then returned to Jelāl.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Jelāl
description: The teacher and central holy figure who admonishes, converts, interprets,
performs or reveals a miracle, and answers an absent scholar.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Audience of Firengīs
description: A group that becomes believers in Jelāl after hearing the merchant’s
account, without seeing Jelāl.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Christian monk
description: A monk who bows to Jelāl, answers the beard question, renounces his
rope girdle, and professes Islam.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Black-habited Christian priests or monks
description: A company coming from a distant place; they bow to Jelāl, converse
with him, and profess themselves Muslims.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Jelāl’s disciples and followers
description: Followers who react to the black-habited group, bow and rejoice at
Jelāl’s explanation, and attend the country-seat gathering.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Narrating disciple
description: A disciple who observes Jelāl after the festival, thinks about miracles,
receives the stone, and reports what happened.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Queen
description: A royal recipient who accepts the ruby, has it valued, and gives silver
and gifts.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Newly arrived sheykh
description: A learned sheykh of reputation who comes to Qonya and is offended that
Jelāl does not visit him first.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: recovered patron or releaser
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The recovered prince grants the merchant’s request for freedom and return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: returning disciple after hardship
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The merchant returns to Jelāl after disobedience, vision, travel, captivity,
and dungeon hardship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: saintly teacher and wonder-worker
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Jelāl admonishes disciples, occasions conversions, gives a pebble seen as
a ruby, and addresses an absent sheykh.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: role:4
label: converts or new believers
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: Each is described as becoming a believer or professing Islam after Jelāl-related
events.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: admonished monk
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The monk receives Jelāl’s rebuke concerning beard and maturity before renouncing
his girdle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: disciples and witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: They accompany Jelāl, react to events, hear his speech, or witness reported
miracles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:7
label: miracle recipient
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The narrating disciple receives the pebble that he sees as a ruby.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: royal patron
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The queen accepts and values the ruby and gives silver and gifts.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:9
label: offended learned rival
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The newly arrived sheykh objects publicly that Jelāl has not visited him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: feet of the teacher
literal_form: Jelāl’s two feet, embraced and kissed by the merchant
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: hardship places and conveyance
literal_form: sea, ship, captivity, and dungeon
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: beard as sign of maturity in speech
literal_form: the monk’s beard, said to be twenty years younger than the monk
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: renounced rope girdle
literal_form: the monk’s rope girdle, thrown away
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: black habit and darkness language
literal_form: black garments and Jelāl’s language of darkness and misbelief
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: light and sun of righteousness
literal_form: the sun of righteousness, light, and darkness in Jelāl’s speech
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: pebble or ruby
literal_form: a pebble picked from the earth and seen by the disciple as a clear
brilliant ruby
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: sym:8
label: moonlight inspection
literal_form: moonlight by which the disciple examines the stone
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Merchant released and returned to Jelāl
summary: After the prince’s recovery, the merchant is freed, returns homeward, goes
first to Jelāl, performs reverence, and receives instruction on lawful earning
and contentment.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Monk admonished through beard question
summary: Jelāl meets a Christian monk, uses the monk’s beard to speak about immaturity,
and the monk renounces his rope girdle and professes Islam.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Black-habited group and light-darkness teaching
summary: Disciples disparage approaching black-habited Christian priests or monks;
Jelāl reframes them in a speech using darkness, light, and righteousness, after
which the group professes Islam.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Country-seat festival before the miracle
summary: At Husām’s country-seat, Jelāl and companions hold holy music and dancing
until near daybreak, then rest while the narrator remains awake watching Jelāl.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Pebble revealed as ruby
summary: After the narrator thinks about prophetic and saintly miracles, Jelāl calls
him, gives him a pebble, and the disciple sees it as a magnificent ruby by moonlight.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Ruby taken to the queen
summary: Jelāl instructs the disciple to take the stone to the queen; she accepts
it, has it valued, and gives silver and gifts.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Absent sheykh answered by apostrophe and parable
summary: A learned sheykh complains that Jelāl has not visited him; Jelāl, elsewhere
in a country mosque, responds as if addressing him and then offers a parable about
who should visit first.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:7
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: return to the teacher after ordeal
taxonomy_refs:
- return
- initiation
basis: The merchant returns to Jelāl after disobedience, vision, sea travel, ship
commotion, captivity, and dungeon darkness, then receives moral instruction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents this as a moral hagiographic episode rather than
a full formal initiation narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: conversion through saintly presence or speech
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Firengī audience believes after the merchant’s report, the monk converts
after Jelāl’s rebuke, and the black-habited group professes Islam after conversing
with Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is extracted from the passage’s religious viewpoint and should
not be generalized beyond this text without comparison.
- id: motif:3
label: light overcoming darkness as religious transformation
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: Jelāl describes the priests or monks as walking in darkness and says the
sun of righteousness will make them believers; he later says God swallows darkness
in light and light in darkness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The imagery is explicitly theological in the passage and may be polemical.
- id: motif:4
label: hidden saintly miracle revealed to a doubting disciple
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: A disciple wonders whether Jelāl works miracles secretly; Jelāl immediately
calls him, gives him a pebble, and the disciple sees it as a ruby.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not specify whether the event is transformation, revelation,
or miraculous perception.
- id: motif:5
label: saint outranking the learned newcomer
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: A prestigious newly arrived sheykh expects a visit, but Jelāl replies from
afar that he is the true newly arrived one whom others should visit, then supports
this with a parable.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The episode establishes authority through speech and distance-awareness,
but the mechanics are not explained.
- id: motif:6
label: sacred gift becoming worldly wealth
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The stone received from Jelāl is carried to the queen and exchanged for a
large amount of silver and gifts that also benefit the fraternity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The exchange is mediated by a royal figure; the passage does not frame
it explicitly as sacrifice or ritual exchange.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The ruby episode can be cautiously compared by function to saintly and prophetic
miracle traditions because the disciple explicitly frames his thought in terms
of miracles performed by prophets and saints before Jelāl gives the stone.
claim_level: same_function
target: prophetic and saintly miracle traditions mentioned inside the passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage provides only an internal comparison made by the disciple;
it does not identify a specific external miracle story.
- id: claim:2
claim: Jelāl’s light-and-darkness speech shares a conversion/guidance function with
light-versus-darkness religious imagery because the passage links darkness with
misbelief and light with becoming believers.
claim_level: same_function
target: light-versus-darkness guidance imagery within the passage’s religious discourse
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is a functional comparison of imagery, not a claim of historical
origin or dependence.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 2177-2186
quote_or_summary: The recovered Firengī prince invites the merchant to ask a wish;
the merchant asks freedom and return to his teacher, recounts disobedience, vision,
and Jelāl’s help, and the Firengī audience becomes believers in Jelāl without
seeing him.
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 2187-2201
quote_or_summary: The merchant goes first to Jelāl, falls at his feet, kisses and
rubs his face on them, weeps, and is told to remain home, earn lawfully, and take
contentment as his exemplar after sea, ship, captivity, and dungeon hardships.
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: Chapter 32, lines 2202-2214
quote_or_summary: Jelāl meets a Christian monk, asks whether the monk or his beard
is older, rebukes the monk as immature, and the monk renounces his rope girdle
and professes Islam.
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: Chapter 33, lines 2215-2235
quote_or_summary: Disciples express aversion toward black-habited Christian priests
or monks; Jelāl calls them generous in relinquishing Islamic goods and says they
walk in darkness and misbelief but will become believers if the sun of righteousness
rises on them.
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: Chapter 33, lines 2236-2242
quote_or_summary: The approaching priests or monks bow to Jelāl, converse with him,
profess themselves true Muslims, and Jelāl tells the disciples that God swallows
darkness in light and light in darkness, and makes a place for light in darkness.
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: Chapter 34, lines 2243-2249
quote_or_summary: Jelāl and his friends go to Husām’s country-seat and hold a festival
of holy music and dancing until near daybreak, after which Jelāl stops to let
the followers rest.
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: Chapter 34, lines 2250-2260
quote_or_summary: The narrator stays awake observing Jelāl while others sleep and
thinks about miracles of prophets and saints, wondering whether Jelāl works miracles
but keeps them quiet.
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: Chapter 34, lines 2261-2267
quote_or_summary: Jelāl calls the disciple by name, stoops, picks up a pebble, places
it on the back of his hand, and gives it to the disciple as his portion with a
Qur’anic citation.
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: Chapter 34, lines 2268-2276
quote_or_summary: By moonlight the disciple sees the pebble as a large, clear, brilliant
ruby; he is astonished, cries out, swoons, awakens the company, and later expresses
contrition to Jelāl.
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: Chapter 34, lines 2277-2283
quote_or_summary: Jelāl tells the disciple to take the stone to the queen and explain
its origin; she accepts it, has it valued, gives him silver and gifts, and distributes
presents to the fraternity.
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: Chapter 35, lines 2284-2294
quote_or_summary: A learned sheykh arrives in Qonya and is offended Jelāl does not
visit; while Jelāl is expounding in a country mosque, he suddenly addresses the
sheykh as his brother and says Jelāl is the newly arrived one whom others should
visit.
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: Chapter 35, lines 2295-2298
quote_or_summary: Jelāl’s audience wonders who he addressed, and Jelāl gives a parable
asking whether a man from Bagdād or one who merely went out from his house should
pay the first visit.
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: medium
notes: The passage is clear at the episode level. Motif labels are cautious because
the supplied taxonomy has broad categories and the passage is primarily hagiographic
narrative.
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'
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