batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l2300-l2425
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l2300-l2425
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 2300-2425
start: '2300'
end: '2425'
translation: The Mesnevi
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: 'The passage recounts several anecdotes about Jelālu-’d-Dīn: a sheykh’s
son journeys to visit and become his disciple; an attendant faints after Jelāl
rebukes him and later recovers after intercession; Sultan Ruknu-’d-Dīn becomes
Jelāl’s disciple after witnessing signs; the Sultan later adopts Sheykh Bāba as
spiritual father, provoking Jelāl’s jealous departure; Jelāl warns the Sultan
not to travel, but the Sultan goes, is strangled, invokes Jelāl, and Jelāl at
a distant musical service responds by blocking his ears, intensifying the music,
and then performing a funeral service.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Jelāl says he has returned from the Bagdād of nulliquity and has been hymning
“I am the Truth” in the world of spirits.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The sheykh’s son goes on foot to visit Jelāl, uncovers his head, declares
Jelāl right, and becomes Jelāl’s disciple.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The sheykh’s son says his father instructed him to put on ironed sandals,
take an iron-shod staff, and go in quest of Jelālu-’d-Dīn.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: An attendant answers Jelāl’s command with “God willing,” after which Jelāl
rebukes him; the attendant faints and foams at the mouth.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: After the disciples intercede, Jelāl expresses forgiveness and the attendant
recovers.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: At a religious commemoration, the Sultan becomes unwell, the exercises are
suspended, but one disciple continues to sing and shout.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Jelāl tells the Sultan that a man consumed by enthusiasm threatening to swallow
heaven cannot suddenly calm down.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: After witnessing signs attributed to Jelāl, the Sultan makes obeisance to
him and becomes a disciple.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The Sultan announces that he has adopted Sheykh Bāba as spiritual father and
that Bāba has accepted him as son.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: Jelāl quotes a saying about jealousy, says he will make another his son, gives
his religious shout of ecstasy, and leaves the assembly.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: Husāmu-’d-Dīn reports that the Sultan turned pale when Jelāl left.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:12
text: The Sultan consults Jelāl before traveling, and Jelāl advises him not to go.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:13
text: At another town, the Sultan is taken to a private apartment and strangled
with a bowstring; before dying he invokes Jelāl’s name.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:14
text: At the same moment, Jelāl is at his college in a musical service, puts his
two forefingers into his ears, orders trumpets and chorus to join, shouts, and
recites odes.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:15
text: After the service, Jelāl removes his cloak and calls for the burial service
for the dead.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:16
text: Jelāl tells the assembly that Sultan Ruknu-’d-Dīn has been strangled, called
on him in agony, that God ordained it, and that the Sultan will fare better in
the other world.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Jelālu-’d-Dīn / Jelāl
description: A spiritual figure whom disciples and the Sultan visit or follow; he
gives commands, rebukes, forgives, warns the Sultan, and performs a burial service.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Sheykh’s son
description: A dearly beloved son of a sheykh who comes to visit Jelāl, uncovers
his head, and becomes his disciple.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Unnamed sheykh, father of the visiting son
description: The father who enjoins his son to go in quest of Jelālu-’d-Dīn with
ironed sandals and an iron-shod staff.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Unnamed attendant
description: An attendant commanded by Jelāl who says “God willing,” is rebuked,
faints, and later recovers.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Disciples
description: Followers of Jelāl who concur, rejoice, intercede, shout, and ask Sultan
Veled to question his father.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Sultan Ruknu-’d-Dīn
description: A monarch who becomes Jelāl’s disciple, later adopts Sheykh Bāba as
spiritual father, travels despite Jelāl’s advice, and is strangled.
role_refs:
- role:9
- role:5
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Sheykh Bāba
description: A sheykh whom the Sultan adopts as spiritual father during a palace
festival.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Court officials, grandees, and officers of state
description: Officials and grandees who introduce Sheykh Bāba, try to stop Jelāl,
and later arrange for the Sultan to travel.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Husāmu-’d-Dīn
description: A reporter who says he saw the Sultan turn pale when Jelāl left the
assembly.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Sultan Veled
description: Jelāl’s son, whom the disciples ask to inquire about Jelāl’s actions
after the musical service.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: truth-claiming spiritual adept
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jelāl speaks of the Bagdād of nulliquity and the canticle “I am the Truth.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: spiritual master
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Others visit, revere, obey, or become disciples of Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: distant knower of the Sultan’s death
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jelāl reacts during a musical service at the time of the Sultan’s strangling
and later announces what happened.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: questing visitor
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: He goes on foot to visit Jelāl after being instructed to go in quest of him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: disciple
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: The sheykh’s son, the disciples, and the Sultan are described as disciples
or as becoming disciples.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: instructing father
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: He orders his son to seek Jelālu-’d-Dīn with specified equipment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: rebuked attendant
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The attendant is rebuked by Jelāl, faints, and recovers after forgiveness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: interceding followers
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The disciples intercede for the attendant and later ask Sultan Veled to question
Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: monarch
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The passage calls Ruknu-’d-Dīn a Sultan and monarch.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:10
label: warned victim
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Jelāl advises him not to go; he travels and is strangled.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: adopted spiritual father
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The Sultan announces that he has adopted Sheykh Bāba as spiritual father.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:12
label: court and political agents
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Officials introduce Bāba; grandees try to stop Jelāl; officers arrange the
Sultan’s travel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:13
label: eyewitness reporter
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Husāmu-’d-Dīn relates what he saw when Jelāl left.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:14
label: son of Jelāl
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The passage identifies Sultan Veled as Jelāl’s son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: quest equipment
literal_form: ironed sandals and an iron-shod staff
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: uncovered head
literal_form: the sheykh’s son uncovers his head while visiting Jelāl
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: religious shout of ecstasy
literal_form: Jelāl’s usual religious shout of ecstasy
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: bowstring
literal_form: a bowstring used to strangle the Sultan
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: blocked ears during distant cry
literal_form: Jelāl puts his two forefingers into his two ears during the musical
service
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: fount of life image
literal_form: the ode phrase “I’m the Fount of Life”
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: cloak removed before funeral service
literal_form: Jelāl puts off his cloak before calling for the burial service
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Recognition of Jelāl’s superior claim to visitation
summary: Jelāl explains that he has returned from the Bagdād of nulliquity and the
world of spirits, and the disciples agree and rejoice.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Sheykh’s son visits and becomes a disciple
summary: The sheykh’s son, instructed by his father to seek Jelāl, visits on foot,
uncovers his head, acknowledges Jelāl’s rightness, and declares himself a disciple.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Rebuke, fainting, and recovery of the attendant
summary: An attendant answers Jelāl’s command with “God willing,” receives a severe
rebuke, faints and foams, then recovers after disciples intercede and Jelāl forgives
him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Sultan’s illness and conversion to discipleship
summary: At a religious commemoration, the Sultan criticizes a disciple who continues
singing during the Sultan’s illness; Jelāl defends ecstatic behavior, and the
Sultan later makes obeisance and becomes a disciple.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Rival spiritual father at the palace festival
summary: The Sultan publicly adopts Sheykh Bāba as spiritual father; Jelāl responds
with a saying about jealousy, announces he will make another his son, shouts in
ecstasy, and leaves, after which the Sultan turns pale.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Warning before the Sultan’s fatal journey
summary: Officials arrange for the Sultan to travel to another city; the Sultan
asks Jelāl’s blessing, and Jelāl advises him not to go, but the arrangements are
not changed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Distant death and funeral service
summary: The Sultan is strangled and invokes Jelāl; at the same moment Jelāl intensifies
a musical service while blocking his ears, later calls for the burial service
and tells the assembly what happened.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: quest for the spiritual master
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The sheykh’s son is instructed to put on ironed sandals, take an iron-shod
staff, and go in quest of Jelālu-’d-Dīn; he visits and becomes a disciple.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives the quest in brief, not as an extended journey narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: annihilation and truth-identification
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: Jelāl describes return from the Bagdād of nulliquity and the world of spirits,
with the canticle “I am the Truth.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage reports Jelāl’s speech but does not explicitly explain the
doctrinal meaning of nulliquity or union.
- id: motif:3
label: spiritual father and son adoption
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Sultan adopts Jelāl as spiritual father, later adopts Sheykh Bāba as
spiritual father, and Sheykh Bāba accepts him as son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: This is a social-spiritual kinship motif in the passage; no available
taxonomy reference exactly matches it.
- id: motif:4
label: jealous spiritual master leaves the assembly
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Jelāl responds to the Sultan’s adoption of Sheykh Bāba by quoting a saying
on jealousy, announcing another son, giving an ecstatic shout, and leaving.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage attributes the reaction to divine jealousy, but the wider
significance is not developed here.
- id: motif:5
label: ignored warning before death
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Sultan asks Jelāl before traveling; Jelāl advises him not to go, but
the Sultan travels and is strangled.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy link to wisdom is functional and broad; the passage does
not frame it as a formal wisdom tale.
- id: motif:6
label: distant perception of a disciple’s death
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: At the moment of the Sultan’s strangling and invocation of Jelāl, Jelāl reacts
during a distant musical service and later announces the Sultan’s death and call.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents the sequence as wondrous, but no explicit technical
term for clairaudience or miracle is supplied.
- id: motif:7
label: ecstatic sound overwhelms ordinary restraint
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A singing disciple continues despite the Sultan’s illness, and Jelāl explains
that enthusiasm threatening to swallow heaven cannot suddenly calm down.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level pattern rather than a taxonomy-linked motif.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The sheykh’s son’s instructed journey with iron sandals and staff in quest
of Jelāl fits the available mystical_quest motif family at the passage level.
claim_level: same_motif
target: mystical_quest
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage condenses the journey and does not describe trials or a
long itinerary.
- id: claim:2
claim: Jelāl’s language of nulliquity and “I am the Truth” is functionally comparable
to the available annihilation_union motif family.
claim_level: same_function
target: annihilation_union
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not provide a doctrinal explanation; the comparison
rests on the reported phrases only.
- id: claim:3
claim: Jelāl’s warning not to travel, followed by the Sultan’s death after disregarding
the advice, is functionally comparable to a wisdom-pattern warning motif.
claim_level: same_function
target: wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The narrative does not explicitly classify the warning as a wisdom
teaching, and political circumstances also drive the event.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 2300-2308
quote_or_summary: Jelāl says he has returned from the Bagdād of nulliquity, has
been in the world of spirits singing “I am the Truth,” and the disciples concur
and rejoice.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary with short quoted phrase.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 2309-2319
quote_or_summary: The sheykh’s son goes on foot to visit Jelāl, uncovers his head,
becomes his disciple, and says his father told him to wear ironed sandals, take
an iron-shod staff, and seek Jelālu-’d-Dīn.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2321-2329
quote_or_summary: Jelāl commands an attendant; the attendant says “God willing”;
Jelāl rebukes him; the attendant faints and foams; disciples intercede; Jelāl
forgives him and he recovers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary with short quoted phrase.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 2331-2345
quote_or_summary: At a religious commemoration before Sultan Ruknu-’d-Dīn, the Sultan
becomes ill; a disciple keeps singing and shouting; Jelāl defends ecstatic enthusiasm,
and the Sultan later bows and becomes a disciple after seeing signs.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 2347-2377
quote_or_summary: The Sultan, who had adopted Jelāl as spiritual father, publicly
adopts Sheykh Bāba as spiritual father; Jelāl responds with a saying about jealousy,
says he will make another his son, shouts in ecstasy, and leaves; Husāmu-’d-Dīn
says the Sultan turned pale.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 2378-2385
quote_or_summary: Officers plan for the Sultan to travel to another city; the Sultan
consults Jelāl and asks his blessing; Jelāl advises him not to go, but official
arrangements cannot be changed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 2386-2400
quote_or_summary: At the other town, the Sultan is strangled with a bowstring and
invokes Jelāl; at that moment Jelāl, in a musical service, puts his forefingers
in his ears, orders trumpets and chorus, shouts, and recites an ode including
the image “I’m the Fount of Life.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary with short quoted phrase.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 2401-2425
quote_or_summary: After the service, disciples ask Sultan Veled to inquire; Jelāl
removes his cloak, calls for the burial service, acts as Precentor, and says Sultan
Ruknu-’d-Dīn has been strangled, called on him, and will fare better in the other
world.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The narrative details are clear in the supplied passage. Motif taxonomy links
are strongest for the quest episode and more interpretive for annihilation/union
and wisdom-warning patterns.
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: |-
Extraction uses only the supplied passage and metadata; comparison claims are limited to available motif families supported by the passage.
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custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg__l2300-l2425
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