batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l4769-l4816
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l4769-l4816
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI.; lines 4769-4816
start: '4769'
end: '4816'
translation: The Mesnevi
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A holy man sees Kirā Khātūn in heaven, where she explains that a funeral
was delayed because she interceded for two people executed for adultery and gained
their admission to paradise. Satan appears to Husāmu-'d-Dīn, complains of Jelāl's
sanctity and pious exercises, and hopes Jelāl's sons will intercede for his release
and salvation; Jelāl replies that Satan need not despair. Grandees seeking an
audience with Shemsu-'d-Dīn of Tebrīz ask Husām to obtain Jelāl's intercession;
payments are negotiated and used to support the holy community and dependants.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A holy man of the fraternity sees Kirā Khātūn in heaven near her husband on
the same night as the delayed funeral.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Kirā Khātūn says a man and woman had been stoned to death at a gate for adultery
on the previous day.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Kirā Khātūn says she took compassion on the executed pair, interceded for
their forgiveness, and obtained their admittance to paradise.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Satan appears in person to Husāmu-'d-Dīn while Jelāl is still living.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Satan complains of torments caused by Jelāl's continuous pious exercises and
says he dares not seduce Jelāl or his followers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Satan hopes Jelāl's sons will intercede with Jelāl for his eventual release
and salvation.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Jelāl smiles and says there is reason to hope Satan need not despair.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Grandees of Qonya request Husām to ask Jelāl to intercede with Shemsu-'d-Dīn
for an audience.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Jelāl and Husām tax nobles for the favor of obtaining access to Shems, according
to their means.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The Grand Vazīr pays for an audience with Shems, is charmed by mysteries revealed
to him, and sends the amount previously abated from the original price.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: Husām spends these monies to relieve the necessities of the holy community
and several named households and dependants.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Kirā Khātūn
description: A woman seen in heaven near her husband; she explains that she interceded
for an executed pair and gained their admission to paradise.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Holy man of the fraternity
description: The person who sees Kirā Khātūn in heaven and asks her about the funeral
delay.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Kirā Khātūn's husband
description: Present near Kirā Khātūn in heaven.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Executed man and woman
description: A man and a woman stoned to death at a gate for adultery; Kirā Khātūn
intercedes for their forgiveness and paradise.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Satan
description: Appears to Husāmu-'d-Dīn, complains about Jelāl's pious exercises,
reveres Jelāl and his followers, and hopes for intercession leading to release
and salvation.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Husāmu-'d-Dīn / Husām
description: Receives Satan's complaint, reports it to Jelāl, and mediates requests
for audiences with Shems; he spends collected money for community support.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Jelāl
description: His pious exercises torment Satan; he responds hopefully to Satan's
wish for salvation and intercedes for nobles seeking access to Shems.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Jelāl's sons
description: Named by Satan as possible intercessors with Jelāl on Satan's behalf.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Sheykh Shemsu-'d-Dīn of Tebrīz / Shems
description: A sheykh whose audience is sought by the grandees of Qonya and the
Grand Vazīr; mysteries are revealed at an audience with him.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Grandees and nobles of Qonya
description: People who desire an audience with Shems and seek it through Husām
and Jelāl, paying according to circumstances.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Grand Vazīr
description: A noble who solicits an audience with Shems, negotiates the fee, and
later sends the abated sum after being charmed by mysteries revealed.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Holy community and dependants
description: Recipients of relief funded by monies collected by Husām.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: intercessor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: Kirā Khātūn intercedes for the executed pair; Jelāl is approached to intercede
with Shems; Satan hopes Jelāl's sons will intercede with Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: visionary or recipient of apparition
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:6
basis: The holy man sees Kirā Khātūn in heaven; Satan appears to Husām.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: forgiven sinners admitted to paradise
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The executed man and woman are said to receive forgiveness and admittance
to paradise through Kirā Khātūn's intercession.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: adversarial figure seeking release and salvation
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Satan complains of torment, refrains from seducing Jelāl's circle, and hopes
for intercession leading to release and salvation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: mediator and distributor of funds
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Husām mediates access to Jelāl and Shems and spends collected monies to relieve
the community's needs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: holy teacher or revealer of mysteries
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:9
basis: Jelāl's pious exercises are central to the Satan episode; Shems grants audiences
at which mysteries are revealed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: supplicant for sacred audience
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: The grandees and Grand Vazīr seek an audience with Shems through Husām and
Jelāl.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: beneficiary community
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Collected monies are spent to relieve the necessities of the holy community
and dependants.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: heaven/paradise
literal_form: Heaven and paradise as places of postmortem presence and admittance.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: funeral delay
literal_form: The arrestation or delay of a funeral procession.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: stoning at the gate
literal_form: A man and woman stoned to death at a gate for adultery.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: pious exercises as torment to Satan
literal_form: Jelāl's continuous pious exercises described as inflicting torments
on Satan.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: pieces of silver
literal_form: Money paid or negotiated for access to Shems and later used for relief.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: revealed mysteries
literal_form: Mysteries revealed to the Grand Vazīr during his audience with Shems.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Kirā Khātūn explains the delayed funeral from heaven
summary: A holy man sees Kirā Khātūn in heaven and learns that the funeral procession
was delayed because she was occupied interceding for two executed adulterers,
gaining them forgiveness and paradise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Satan seeks hope of salvation through Jelāl's circle
summary: Satan appears to Husām, says Jelāl's pious exercises torment him, acknowledges
reverence for Jelāl and his followers, and expresses hope for intercession leading
to release and salvation; Jelāl responds that he need not despair.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Paid mediation for audience with Shems
summary: Grandees of Qonya seek access to Shems by asking Husām to obtain Jelāl's
intercession. Fees are negotiated; the Grand Vazīr is moved by the mysteries revealed
in an audience and sends the previously reduced amount. Husām uses the money for
the holy community and dependants.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Intercession for condemned sinners in the afterlife
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Kirā Khātūn is said to intercede for a man and woman executed for adultery
and to obtain their forgiveness and admission to paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives a hagiographic anecdote of intercession and admission
to paradise, but does not describe a formal judgment scene.
- id: motif:2
label: Adversary seeking salvation through saintly intercession
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Satan asks for eventual release and salvation through intercession with Jelāl,
and Jelāl answers that there is reason to hope.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The text presents Satan's hope and Jelāl's response, not the actual achievement
of salvation.
- id: motif:3
label: Sacred mediation exchanged for wealth and redistributed to a holy community
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Nobles pay for mediated access to Shems; after the audience, the Grand Vazīr
voluntarily sends an abated sum, and Husām spends such monies on the needs of
the holy community and dependants.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage describes negotiated payments connected to access to a holy
figure, but does not explicitly frame the payments as ritual offerings.
- id: motif:4
label: Mystical audience revealing hidden mysteries
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- wisdom
basis: The Grand Vazīr seeks access to Shems and is charmed by mysteries revealed
during the audience.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: low
cautions: Only a brief report of revealed mysteries is provided; the passage does
not narrate the content or stages of a quest.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 4769-4772
quote_or_summary: A holy man of the fraternity sees Kirā Khātūn in heaven near her
husband and asks about the arrestation of the funeral.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 4772-4778
quote_or_summary: Kirā Khātūn explains that a man and woman had been stoned for
adultery at the gate; she took compassion, interceded for forgiveness, obtained
paradise for them, and this caused the funeral delay.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 4782-4790
quote_or_summary: Satan appears to Husāmu-'d-Dīn, complains that Jelāl's pious exercises
torment him, says he reveres Jelāl and his followers and dares not seduce them,
and says he would not have tempted Adam had he known such holy descendants would
arise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 4790-4796
quote_or_summary: Satan hopes Jelāl's sons will intercede with Jelāl for his release
and salvation; Husām reports this, and Jelāl says there is reason to hope and
that Satan should not despair.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 4800-4807
quote_or_summary: Grandees of Qonya who desire an audience with Shems request Husām
to ask Jelāl to intercede for them; Jelāl and Husām tax the nobles for this favor
according to their means.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 4808-4816
quote_or_summary: The Grand Vazīr's fee is negotiated from forty thousand to thirty
thousand pieces of silver; after being charmed by mysteries revealed during the
audience with Shems, he sends the abated ten thousand, and Husām uses such monies
to relieve the holy community, Jelāl's family, the Goldbeater's family, and dependants.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based directly on the supplied passage. Motif assignments are
cautious because the passage is a brief hagiographic sequence and does not explicitly
identify broader comparative categories. No comparison claims were made because
the passage itself does not support a comparison to another text or tradition.
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: |-
Used only supplied passage text and metadata; available taxonomy references were applied only where directly supportable.
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