batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l3157-l3282
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passage_locator:
label: THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 3157-3282
start: '3157'
end: '3282'
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 gives several anecdotes concerning Jelāl: a biographical note
on Sultan Veled’s birth and conflicting traditions; an almsgiving story in which
a poor woman’s small total gift outweighs large offerings; two Turkish students
becoming Jelāl’s disciples; a mysterious stranger identified with Elias praising
Jelāl; a visionary scene at Jelāl’s burial; reports of Jelāl walking in the air;
and a report of Jelāl appearing at Damascus while remaining associated with Qonya,
explained through an analogy of men of God as fishes in the ocean.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Sultan Veled reports that after an invitation to Larenda, Jelāl’s father was
made a son-in-law there and Sultan Veled was born in that town; the editor notes
conflicts with other accounts of the family chronology.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Two poor Turkish law-students bring Jelāl a small offering of lentils and
excuse its smallness by their poverty.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Jelāl narrates that believers contributed possessions for God’s service, with
some giving portions and Abū-Bekr giving all he possessed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A poor woman brings three dates and a cake of bread, described as all she
had on earth.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Mustafa says he saw angels place the large offerings in one scale of a balance
and the poor woman’s three dates and cake in the other, with the poor woman’s
scale outweighing the rest.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Mustafa explains that the poor woman gave all she had, while the disciples
retained part of their possessions.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Jelāl uses the image of a single date-stone entrusted to God becoming a fruitful
tree.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: After hearing the anecdote, the two Turkish students profess themselves disciples
of Jelāl.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: While Jelāl is preaching on Moses and Elias, a stranger listens attentively
and says Jelāl might have been the third with them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: A disciple seizes the stranger’s skirt and asks for spiritual aid; the stranger
directs him to seek assistance from Jelāl and says occult saints admire Jelāl.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The stranger disengages himself and instantly disappears.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:12
text: Jelāl later tells the disciple that Elias, Moses, and the prophets are all
his friends.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:13
text: At Jelāl’s burial service, the precentor shrieks, swoons, recovers, and performs
his office while weeping.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:14
text: The precentor says he perceived noble spiritual saints of the spiritual world
present and reciting prayers for Jelāl; they wore blue robes and wept.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:15
text: For forty days, the precentor and others visit Jelāl’s grave daily.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:16
text: At Damascus, Jelāl is seen as a young student walking several arrow-flights’
distance in the air and returning to a terraced roof.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:17
text: A friend who leaves Jelāl at Qonya finds him seated in a corner of his room
in Damascus.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:18
text: Jelāl explains the surprising appearance by saying men of God are like fishes
in the ocean, appearing on the surface wherever they please.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Sultan Veled
description: Reporter of biographical and anecdotal material; he says he was born
at Larenda.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Jelāl
description: Central saintly figure who receives offerings, narrates a prophetic
anecdote, preaches, is praised by a mysterious stranger, is buried, walks in the
air, and appears in Damascus.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Two Turkish law-students
description: Poor students who bring lentils to Jelāl and later profess themselves
his disciples.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Mustafa / Muhammed
description: Prophet in Jelāl’s narrated anecdote who receives revelation about
offerings and explains the poor woman’s superior gift.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Poor woman
description: Woman who offers three dates and a cake of bread, all she has on earth.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Disciples in Mustafa’s anecdote
description: Disciples who contribute large offerings but retain part of their possessions;
they ask about the mystery of the balance.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Mysterious stranger / Elias
description: Stranger listening to Jelāl’s preaching, suspected by a disciple to
be Elias, who praises Jelāl and disappears.
role_refs:
- role:10
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Disciple who seizes the stranger’s skirt
description: A disciple who notices the stranger, seeks his spiritual aid, and becomes
more devoted to Jelāl after Jelāl’s allusion.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Precentor
description: Person officiating at Jelāl’s burial who swoons after perceiving spiritual
saints and angels.
role_refs:
- role:13
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Spiritual saints / angels of heaven
description: Heavenly or spiritual beings perceived at Jelāl’s burial, reciting
prayers, wearing blue robes, and weeping.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Fellow-pupils at Damascus
description: Witnesses who see Jelāl walking in the air and become early believers
and disciples.
role_refs:
- role:16
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Friend of Jelāl
description: Friend who leaves Jelāl at Qonya, travels to Damascus, and finds Jelāl
in his room there.
role_refs:
- role:17
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
roles:
- id: role:1
label: biographical narrator
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Sultan Veled is reported as relating birth and anecdotal material.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: saintly teacher
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jelāl receives students, narrates edifying stories, and preaches on Moses
and Elias.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:3
label: recipient of discipleship
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Turkish students and others become or are described as disciples of Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:15
- id: role:4
label: wonder-working saint
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage reports his walking in the air and appearing in Damascus in a
surprising manner.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: role:5
label: poor donors
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They bring a few lentils and explain the small gift by their poverty.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: disciples
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:8
- fig:11
basis: The text explicitly identifies these figures as disciples or becoming disciples.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:15
- id: role:7
label: prophetic revealer and interpreter
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Mustafa recounts a vision of the balance and explains the hidden meaning
of the poor woman’s gift.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: total giver
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Her offering is described as all she had, and it outweighs the larger offerings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: partial givers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They give generous offerings but keep back part of their possessions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:10
label: hidden holy figure
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The disciple suspects the stranger may be Elias, and the stranger disappears
after speaking.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:11
label: witness to Jelāl’s spiritual rank
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The stranger says occult saints seek assistance from Jelāl and are his loving
admirers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:12
label: seeker of spiritual aid
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The disciple seizes the stranger’s skirt and asks for spiritual aid.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:13
label: funeral officiant
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The precentor performs the burial service office over Jelāl’s corpse.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:14
label: visionary witness
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: He reports perceiving spiritual beings at the burial service.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:15
label: heavenly mourners
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: They are perceived reciting prayers for Jelāl, wearing mourning robes, and
weeping.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:16
label: miracle witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: They see Jelāl walking in the air and become early believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: role:17
label: travelling witness
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: He travels from Qonya to Damascus and finds Jelāl there.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: small lentil offering
literal_form: a few lentils
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: three dates and cake of bread
literal_form: three dates and one cake of bread
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: balance scales weighing offerings
literal_form: a balance with offerings placed in two scales
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: date-stone becoming tree
literal_form: single date-stone entrusted to God becoming a fruitful tree
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: removed veils
literal_form: veils removed from before Mustafa in a vision
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: stranger’s skirt
literal_form: skirt seized by the disciple
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:7
label: blue mourning robes
literal_form: robes of blue worn by spiritual beings
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:8
label: grave visited for forty days
literal_form: Jelāl’s grave and forty days of visits
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:9
label: walking in the air
literal_form: Jelāl walking several arrow-flights’ distance in the air
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:10
label: ocean and fishes analogy
literal_form: men of God compared to fishes in the ocean appearing on the surface
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Biographical notice on birth at Larenda
summary: Sultan Veled reports circumstances leading to his birth at Larenda, followed
by editorial notice of conflicting traditions.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Poor students bring lentils to Jelāl
summary: Two Turkish law-students offer a few lentils to Jelāl and excuse the smallness
of the gift by their poverty.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Mustafa’s vision of the offerings
summary: Jelāl recounts that believers gave offerings for God’s service and that
a poor woman’s three dates and cake outweighed all larger offerings in a visionary
balance.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Alms as trust committed to God
summary: Mustafa explains that the poor woman gave all she had and compares alms
entrusted to God to a date-stone becoming a fruitful tree.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Students become disciples
summary: After hearing Jelāl’s anecdote, the two Turkish students profess themselves
his disciples.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: Stranger associated with Elias praises Jelāl
summary: A stranger listens to Jelāl’s preaching on Moses and Elias, is suspected
to be Elias, directs a disciple to seek Jelāl’s aid, and disappears.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: scene:7
label: Vision at Jelāl’s burial
summary: At Jelāl’s burial, the precentor swoons and later reports seeing spiritual
saints or angels reciting prayers in mourning robes; visits to the grave continue
for forty days.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: scene:8
label: Jelāl walks in the air at Damascus
summary: Jelāl is reported to walk through the air for several arrow-flights and
return to the roof, witnessed by fellow-pupils who become believers and disciples.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: scene:9
label: Jelāl appears in Damascus and explains men of God
summary: A friend leaving Jelāl at Qonya finds him in Damascus; Jelāl explains that
men of God are like fishes in the ocean appearing wherever they please.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: small total gift outweighs large partial gifts
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The poor woman gives all she has, and her three dates and cake outweigh the
larger contributions of those who retained part of their possessions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the episode as an almsgiving lesson rather than a full
mythic exchange cycle.
- id: motif:2
label: offering entrusted to God becomes multiplied fruitfulness
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Mustafa compares alms given to God’s servants with a date-stone entrusted
to God that becomes a tree yielding innumerable fruits.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: This is an explicit didactic image within a speech, not an enacted transformation
in the narrative frame.
- id: motif:3
label: hidden immortal or holy guide appears unrecognized
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- mystical_quest
basis: The stranger is suspected to be Elias, who is said in the note to be visible
somewhere though unrecognized, and who possesses knowledge of the secret of eternal
life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The text presents the identification as the disciple’s surmise, not as
a narrator-confirmed fact.
- id: motif:4
label: saint endorsed by prophets and occult saints
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The stranger says every occult saint is Jelāl’s loving friend, and Jelāl
says Elias, Moses, and the prophets are all his friends.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a hagiographic claim of spiritual rank, not a detailed narrative
of prophetic encounter.
- id: motif:5
label: heavenly mourners attend saint’s funeral
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: At Jelāl’s burial, the precentor reports seeing spiritual saints or angels
present, praying for the dead and weeping in blue robes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference precisely matches the funeral vision motif.
- id: motif:6
label: levitation or walking in the air as sign of sanctity
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Jelāl is seen walking several arrow-flights’ distance in the air and returning
to a roof, leading witnesses to become believers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
confidence: medium
cautions: The action is horizontal walking in the air, so the available 'ascent'
taxonomy is only approximate.
- id: motif:7
label: saintly simultaneous or distant appearance
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: A friend leaves Jelāl at Qonya and finds him in Damascus; Jelāl explains
men of God can appear where they please like fishes surfacing in the ocean.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage calls the phenomenon surprising but does not explicitly define
it as bilocation.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The poor woman’s gift episode fits the function of a sacred-exchange pattern
in which inner totality of offering is valued above material quantity.
claim_level: same_function
target: sacred_exchange motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to functional similarity with the supplied motif
family; no historical contact or external parallel is asserted.
- id: claim:2
claim: The stranger suspected to be Elias fits a hidden holy-guide or wisdom-bearing
figure pattern within the passage’s own Muslim explanatory note.
claim_level: same_function
target: wisdom / mystical_quest motif families
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The stranger’s identity as Elias is inferential within the narrative,
and the available taxonomy does not include a dedicated immortal-guide category.
- id: claim:3
claim: Jelāl’s walking in the air is visually similar to ascent or aerial-transit
motifs used as signs of extraordinary sanctity.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: ascent motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage describes aerial walking and return to a roof, not a journey
upward to a heavenly realm.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 3157-3177
quote_or_summary: Sultan Veled reports birth circumstances at Larenda; the editor
notes conflicts among traditions about family chronology and marriage details.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 3181-3185
quote_or_summary: Two Turkish law-students bring Jelāl a few lentils, explaining
that poverty makes the gift small.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 3187-3192
quote_or_summary: In Jelāl’s anecdote, God reveals to Mustafa that believers should
contribute what they can spare; some give portions, and Abū-Bekr gives all he
possesses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: '3194'
quote_or_summary: "“A poor woman, too, brought three dates and a cake of bread--all
she had on earth.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote from provided passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 3196-3205
quote_or_summary: Mustafa says God removed the veils and he saw angels place the
large offerings in one balance scale and the poor woman’s three dates and cake
in the other; the latter outweighed the rest.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 3207-3212
quote_or_summary: Mustafa explains that the poor woman parted with all, while the
disciples kept back part of their possessions, and cites sayings that little is
much before the Most Great.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 3212-3219
quote_or_summary: Mustafa compares alms entrusted to God with a single date-stone
placed in earth and made by God into a tree yielding many fruits.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 3223-3225
quote_or_summary: After hearing the anecdote, the two Turkish students profess themselves
disciples of Jelāl.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: 3229-3236
quote_or_summary: While young Jelāl preaches on Moses and Elias, a stranger listens
and says Jelāl might have been the third with them; the disciple surmises he may
be Elias.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: 3236-3244
quote_or_summary: The note says Elias is believed to possess the secret of eternal
life; the disciple seizes the stranger’s skirt, asks aid, and the stranger directs
him to Jelāl before disappearing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:11
type: quote
locator: 3244-3248
quote_or_summary: "“Elias, and Moses, and the prophets, are all friends of mine.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote from provided passage.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: 3252-3255
quote_or_summary: At Jelāl’s burial service, the precentor shrieks, swoons, recovers,
and then performs the office while weeping bitterly.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: 3257-3263
quote_or_summary: The precentor says he saw noble spiritual saints of the spiritual
world present, reciting prayers for Jelāl; angels of heaven wore blue robes and
wept.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: '3265'
quote_or_summary: For forty days, the precentor and others visit Jelāl’s grave daily.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: 3269-3274
quote_or_summary: At Damascus, young Jelāl is often seen walking several arrow-flights’
distance in the air and returning to the terraced roof; witnesses become early
believers and disciples.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: 3278-3280
quote_or_summary: A friend leaves Jelāl at Qonya, travels to Damascus, and finds
Jelāl seated in a corner of his room there.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:17
type: quote
locator: 3280-3282
quote_or_summary: "“The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into
view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote from provided passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is anecdotal and explicit.
Motif classification is more tentative where available taxonomy labels are broad
or approximate.
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: |-
No external parallels or historical-contact claims were added; comparison claims are limited to cautious functional or visual similarity with supplied taxonomy families.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg__l3157-l3282
passage_sha256=32d4bd5880914f6e5d7b67556d3af4594b0b898245473316dff52b264a7d99db