batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l4279-l4412
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l4279-l4412
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV.; lines 4279-4412
start: '4279'
end: '4412'
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 presents hagiographic anecdotes about Jelāl, Shemsu-’d-Dīn,
Sultan Veled, and others: concealed saintly powers, the death of Kimiyā Khātūn
after an outing without Shems’s permission, a six-month seclusion of Shems and
Jelāl, Shems’s disguised instruction of a prince’s son, Sultan Veled’s journey
to bring Shems back from Damascus, Shems’s death after conflict at a religious
dance, the dream-guided recovery and burial of his body, and Jelāl’s later journey
to Damascus where he fails to find Shems bodily but finds something greater within
himself.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Prophets and saints are described as having concealed their miraculous powers
from ordinary observers.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Jelāl is described as having secretly followed the path of mystic love so
successfully that even eminent elect persons did not perceive his miraculous powers.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Kimiyā Khātūn went with women to the city vineyards without Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s
permission or knowledge; Shems was annoyed when he learned of her absence.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: After returning, Kimiyā Khātūn became ill, her limbs stiffened and became
motionless, she screamed and moaned for three days, and then died.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Shemsu-’d-Dīn and Jelāl shut themselves in Jelāl’s college room for six months
without food, drink, visitors, or coming out, except for Sultan Veled and one
other disciple.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Shemsu-’d-Dīn opened a children’s school while concealing who he was, undertook
to teach a prince’s son, and enabled him within one month to recite the whole
Qur’ān from memory and acquire handwriting and other accomplishments.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Jelāl sent Sultan Veled with money and disciples to Damascus to request Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s
return to Qonya.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Sultan Veled found Shemsu-’d-Dīn in the specified inn playing backgammon with
a young European who is also called one of God’s saints.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: At a college entertainment involving Qur’ān recitation and religious dancing,
the Vazīr and Shemsu-’d-Dīn joined the dance, and repeated contact or collision
occurred.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: After Jelāl objected to the treatment of Shemsu-’d-Dīn, police seized Shems,
led him out as a prisoner, and put him to death without further inquiry.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s executioners threw his corpse down a well.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Sultan Veled saw Shemsu-’d-Dīn in a dream and was told where the body would
be found; he recovered, washed, and privately buried it at midnight.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:13
text: Forty days after Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s disappearance, Jelāl went to Damascus to
seek him for a third time.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:14
text: Jelāl did not find Shemsu-’d-Dīn in the flesh at Damascus, but the passage
says he found within himself what was still greater.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:15
text: Jelāl wrote on the door of Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s lodging in red ink, identifying
it as the station of the beloved one of Elias.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:16
text: The passage reports a saying that Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s body disappeared, and that
he was buried beside Jelāl’s father.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Jelāl
description: A spiritual master associated with hidden miraculous powers, mystic
love, devotion to Shemsu-’d-Dīn, journeys to Damascus, and an inward finding after
failing to find Shems bodily.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Shemsu-’d-Dīn
description: A saintly figure associated with seclusion with Jelāl, severe preaching,
disguised teaching, return from Damascus, death at Qonya, dream appearance, and
possible bodily disappearance.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
- role:4
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Kimiyā Khātūn
description: The beautiful and virtuous wife of Shemsu-’d-Dīn who goes to the vineyards
and dies after returning home.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Sultan Veled
description: Jelāl’s son, sent to Damascus to bring back Shemsu-’d-Dīn; later he
receives a dream indicating where Shems’s body is located and recovers it.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Young Firengī
description: A young European found playing backgammon with Shemsu-’d-Dīn in Damascus,
described as one of God’s saints and later as a preacher of Jelāl’s doctrines
in his own country.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Vazīr of Qonya
description: Builder of a college who hosts an entertainment with religious music
and dancing and joins in the dance with Shemsu-’d-Dīn.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Police of the Sultan
description: Officials summoned during the conflict at the college entertainment
who seize Shemsu-’d-Dīn and put him to death.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Executioners of Shemsu-’d-Dīn
description: Persons who throw Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s corpse down a well after his death.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Prince’s son at Erzen-of-Rome
description: A handsome but extremely stupid child whom Shemsu-’d-Dīn teaches to
recite the whole Qur’ān by heart in one month.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Elias
description: Named in Jelāl’s red-ink inscription as associated with the station
of the beloved one.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: hidden saint
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
basis: The passage emphasizes concealed saintly power, Shems’s hidden identity,
and the young Firengī as one of God’s saints.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: devoted friend or seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jelāl is described as devoted to Shemsu-’d-Dīn and later seeking him in Damascus.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: disguised teacher
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Shems conceals his identity, opens a school, and instructs the prince’s son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: martyr
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage explicitly says Shemsu-’d-Dīn was made a martyr and describes
his killing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: wife who dies after transgression of permission
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Kimiyā Khātūn goes out without Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s permission and dies after
returning.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: messenger who retrieves the master
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Sultan Veled is sent to Damascus and brings Shemsu-’d-Dīn back to Qonya.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: dream-guided recoverer
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Sultan Veled sees Shemsu-’d-Dīn in a dream and recovers the corpse from the
indicated place.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: beloved absent master
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jelāl seeks Shemsu-’d-Dīn after his disappearance and writes an inscription
referring to a beloved one.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:9
label: vicar or doctrine-bearer
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The young Firengī returns to his own country to preach Jelāl’s doctrines
as his vicar.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: patron host
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The Vazīr builds the college and gives the religious entertainment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:11
label: agents of killing or disposal
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: The police kill Shemsu-’d-Dīn, and executioners throw his corpse down a well.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:12
label: miraculously instructed pupil
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The prince’s son learns Qur’ān recitation and other accomplishments within
one month under Shemsu-’d-Dīn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: concealed miraculous power
literal_form: Miraculous powers hidden from vulgar eyes and from even eminent elect
observers.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: six-month closed room
literal_form: Jelāl’s college room in which Shemsu-’d-Dīn and Jelāl shut themselves
for six months without food, drink, visitors, or emergence.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: memorized Qur’ān in one month
literal_form: The prince’s son recites the whole Qur’ān by heart after one month
of instruction by Shemsu-’d-Dīn.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: backgammon in the Damascus inn
literal_form: Shemsu-’d-Dīn playing backgammon with a young Firengī saint in the
inn where Jelāl predicted he would be found.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: holy waltzing
literal_form: Religious dancing after complete Qur’ān recitation at the Vazīr’s
college entertainment.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: well containing the corpse
literal_form: The well into which Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s corpse is thrown by his executioners.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: dream disclosure of hidden body
literal_form: Sultan Veled’s dream in which Shemsu-’d-Dīn tells him where the body
will be found.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:8
label: red-ink door inscription
literal_form: Writing in red ink on the door of Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s lodging identifying
it as the station of the beloved one of Elias.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:9
label: disappeared body
literal_form: Report that the body of Shemsu-’d-Dīn disappeared.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Concealed sanctity and mystic love
summary: The passage states that prophets and saints hide miraculous powers and
applies this hiddenness to Jelāl’s secret progress on the path of mystic love.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Kimiyā Khātūn’s outing and death
summary: Kimiyā Khātūn is taken to the vineyards without Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s knowledge
or permission; after Shems becomes annoyed, she returns, falls ill, and dies after
three days.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Six-month seclusion of Shemsu-’d-Dīn and Jelāl
summary: Shemsu-’d-Dīn and Jelāl remain shut in Jelāl’s room for six months without
food, drink, or ordinary access.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Disguised teaching at Erzen-of-Rome
summary: Shemsu-’d-Dīn conceals his identity, opens a school, teaches the prince’s
son, and leaves when people suspect he is a saint in disguise.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Retrieval of Shemsu-’d-Dīn from Damascus
summary: Jelāl sends Sultan Veled to Damascus; Sultan Veled finds Shemsu-’d-Dīn
in the predicted inn with a young Firengī saint and brings him back to Qonya.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Dance, conflict, and death of Shemsu-’d-Dīn
summary: At a college entertainment, Qur’ān recitation is followed by religious
dancing; after collisions involving the Vazīr and Shemsu-’d-Dīn, conflict escalates,
police seize Shems, and he is killed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Dream-guided recovery and burial
summary: After Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s corpse is thrown into a well, Sultan Veled receives
a dream disclosure, recovers the body at midnight with friends, washes it, and
privately buries it.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Damascus search and inward finding
summary: Forty days after Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s disappearance, Jelāl travels to Damascus
seeking him, returns after about a year, fails to find him in the flesh, but finds
something greater within himself and marks Shems’s lodging with a red-ink inscription.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:9
label: Report of bodily disappearance
summary: The passage reports that Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s body disappeared and that he was
buried beside Jelāl’s father.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: hidden saint with concealed powers
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage states that saints and prophets conceal miraculous powers and
describes Jelāl and Shemsu-’d-Dīn as figures whose saintly status is hidden or
only later suspected.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage is hagiographic rather than
a wisdom tale in a narrow sense.
- id: motif:2
label: ascetic seclusion of paired spiritual figures
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- initiation
basis: Shemsu-’d-Dīn and Jelāl shut themselves away for six months without food,
drink, ordinary visitors, or public emergence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage reports the seclusion but does not explicitly call it an initiation.
- id: motif:3
label: miraculous education by a disguised saint
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Shemsu-’d-Dīn hides his identity, teaches a supposedly unteachable prince’s
son, and causes him to memorize the Qur’ān and acquire accomplishments within
one month.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The miracle is framed as saintly capacity; no external comparison is asserted
by the passage.
- id: motif:4
label: journey to retrieve the absent spiritual beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
- return
- divine_beloved
- mystical_quest
basis: Jelāl sends Sultan Veled to Damascus to bring Shemsu-’d-Dīn back, and Sultan
Veled escorts him back to Qonya while Jelāl receives him with an embrace and increased
devotion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The term 'beloved' is explicit later in the passage, but the retrieval
journey itself is narrated as a request for return.
- id: motif:5
label: martyrdom of the saint after ritual conflict
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
basis: Shemsu-’d-Dīn is seized and killed after a conflict at a religious dance,
and the following section says he was made a martyr.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage calls Shems a martyr, but it does not frame the death as a
voluntary sacrifice.
- id: motif:6
label: dream reveals the hidden corpse
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Sultan Veled sees Shemsu-’d-Dīn in a dream, learns where the body is, and
recovers it from the well for washing and burial.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly matches dream-guided corpse recovery.
- id: motif:7
label: failed outward quest becomes inward finding
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- annihilation_union
- divine_beloved
basis: Jelāl goes to Damascus seeking Shemsu-’d-Dīn, does not find him in the flesh,
but finds within himself what is described as still greater.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The inward finding is stated, but the exact doctrinal interpretation of
union should be reviewed by a specialist.
- id: motif:8
label: disappearing body of the saint
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage reports that the body of Shemsu-’d-Dīn disappeared after earlier
narrating its burial.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: low
cautions: The passage does not describe resurrection; the taxonomy link is only
a loose association with extraordinary post-mortem disappearance.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 4279-4285
quote_or_summary: Prophets and saints hide miraculous powers; Jelāl is said to have
secretly followed mystic love so that even God’s elect did not perceive his powers.
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 4289-4304
quote_or_summary: Kimiyā Khātūn goes to the vineyards without Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s permission;
Shems is annoyed; after returning she becomes stiff, motionless, screams and moans
for three days, and dies.
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 4308-4312
quote_or_summary: Shemsu-’d-Dīn and Jelāl shut themselves in Jelāl’s room for six
months without meat, drink, visitors, or coming out, except for Sultan Veled and
one disciple.
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 4316-4333
quote_or_summary: Shemsu-’d-Dīn preaches harshly, then at Erzen-of-Rome conceals
his identity, opens a school, teaches a prince’s son to recite the whole Qur’ān
by heart in one month, and leaves when suspected of being a saint.
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 4337-4351
quote_or_summary: Jelāl sends Sultan Veled to Damascus; he finds Shemsu-’d-Dīn in
an inn playing backgammon with a young Firengī saint, brings him back to Qonya,
and Jelāl embraces him with renewed devotion.
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 4355-4370
quote_or_summary: At the Vazīr’s college entertainment, Qur’ān recitation is followed
by religious dancing; repeated contact occurs in the dance; Jelāl objects; police
seize Shemsu-’d-Dīn and put him to death.
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 4374-4380
quote_or_summary: After Shemsu-’d-Dīn is made a martyr, executioners throw his corpse
down a well; Sultan Veled dreams where it is, recovers it at midnight, washes
it, and privately buries it.
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 4384-4395
quote_or_summary: Forty days after Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s disappearance, Jelāl appoints
Husāmu-’d-Dīn deputy and sets out to seek Shems in Damascus for the third time;
Syrian learned men become disciples, and he later returns to Qonya.
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 4397-4402
quote_or_summary: Jelāl fails to find Shemsu-’d-Dīn in the flesh at Damascus but
finds within himself what is greater, then writes in red ink on Shems’s lodging
door that it is the station of the beloved one of Elias.
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 4404-4407
quote_or_summary: The passage reports that Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s body disappeared and
that he was buried by the side of Jelāl’s father, Sultan Bahā Veled the Elder.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Narrative extraction is direct from the supplied passage. Motif labels are
cautious and based only on this passage; several taxonomy links are broad and
require human review.
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 comparison claims were added because the passage does not itself make an explicit cross-textual or cross-traditional comparison beyond its internal Sufi hagiographic framing.
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