batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l5514-l5633
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l5514-l5633
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
passage_locator:
label: OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.;
lines 5514-5633
start: '5514'
end: '5633'
translation: The Mesnevi
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A prince, after failed remedies for a maiden, goes barefoot to a worship-house,
prays with tears, and receives a sleep-vision announcing a heaven-sent healer.
At dawn a radiant stranger appears, is welcomed with humility, and examines the
maiden, declaring earlier treatments harmful. The passage also gives moral exempla
about divine provision, greed, humility, presumption, punishment, rain, angels,
heavenly bodies, and Satan's fall.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: After seeing that previous art was vain, the prince goes barefoot to a worship-house,
bows at the altar, and bathes the floor with tears.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The prince prays to God as refuge in need, acknowledges human error, and says
that God commands humans to approach with words.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: After the prayer, sleep falls on the prince and he hears heavenly tones promising
a guest at daybreak.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The heavenly voice describes the expected stranger as heaven-sent, skilled
in healing, true in speech and heart, and says the maiden's healing will be by
God's power rather than magic.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: At dawn, the prince watches the road and sees a majestic, mildly radiant stranger
whose visible form matches the semblance seen in his swoon.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The prince goes out himself to meet the heaven-sent guest, and their companies
mingle while their hearts are described as united.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The prince addresses the guest with a humility formula, likening the guest
to Muhammad and himself to Umar awaiting command.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The narrator warns against pride, calling a puffed-up fool remote from Heaven's
elect and a shameless monarch a curse and firebrand to his realm.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Food is said to have been sent by God in the wilderness without toil, but
to have ceased after scoffers from Moses' host demanded onions and lentils.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: Jesus is said to have made a later request after which food again became abundant,
and the passage connects this with the prayer for daily bread.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: The passage says that when people doubted, asked for more, and tried to store
food, Heaven's gate of mercy closed against the greedy.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:12
text: The passage states that rain is withheld when alms cease and that grief and
sorrow are punishments for wickedness and guilt.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:13
text: The heavenly orbs and holy angels are described as obeying and serving their
Maker, while eclipse and Satan's fall are linked to checks on pride and presumption.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:14
text: The prince embraces the guest, kisses his hand and brow, asks after his welfare,
and leads him in.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:15
text: The passage states that patience is bitter at first but sweet in its fruit.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:16
text: The prince calls the guest a gift from God, the reward of prayer, a solver
of his despair, and prince of physicians.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:17
text: The prince tells the maiden's case in a chamber; the patient is unveiled;
the guest observes complexion, pulse, egesta, causes, and symptoms, and says earlier
remedies were harmful and the case misunderstood.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: the prince
description: A royal supplicant who prays, receives a vision, welcomes the heaven-sent
guest, and seeks aid for the maiden.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: God / Heaven
description: The divine addressee of prayer, source of mercy, sender of the healer,
provider and withholder of food and rain, and ruler obeyed by heavenly beings.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: heaven-sent stranger / guest / prince of physicians
description: A radiant stranger promised in a heavenly voice, described as true
and skilled in healing, welcomed by the prince, and shown examining the maiden.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: the maiden / patient
description: The ill maiden whose case is told to the guest and whose signs are
examined after she is unveiled.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: scoffers from Moses' host
description: Members of Moses' host who demand onions and lentils after heavenly
food is provided.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Jesus
description: A prophetic figure who makes a later request associated with renewed
heavenly food and the prayer for daily bread.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: holy angels
description: Heavenly servants who meekly serve the Lord.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Satan
description: A figure whose fall is attributed to presumption.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: supplicant seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The prince bows, weeps, and prays at the altar for divine aid.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: divine benefactor and judge
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: God is addressed as refuge, overflows mercy, sends the healer, provides food,
and withholds mercy or rain in response to human conduct.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: heaven-sent healer
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The voice announces a heaven-sent stranger skilled in healing, and the guest
later examines the patient.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: host and humble disciple
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The prince meets the guest personally, welcomes him, and speaks as one awaiting
the guest's command.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: patient needing cure
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The maiden is the one whose illness is to be healed and whose symptoms are
examined.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: ungrateful recipients of provision
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The scoffers receive toil-free heavenly food yet demand former foods, after
which the food ceases.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: prophetic petitioner for food
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Jesus is said to make a request after which food again becomes plentiful
and to be associated with the daily bread prayer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: obedient heavenly servants
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The angels are described as meekly serving the Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: fallen presumptuous figure
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Satan's fall is attributed to presumption.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: worship-house and altar
literal_form: A heavenly worship-house and holy altar where the prince bows and
prays.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: tears as flood
literal_form: The prince's flood of tears bathing the sacred floor.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: heavenly voice in sleep
literal_form: Heavenly-dulcet tones heard by the prince while asleep.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: dawn and celestial radiance
literal_form: Daydawn, sunbeams paling stars, and the stranger's mild radiance like
sun behind clouds or full moon.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: heavenly food / daily bread
literal_form: Food sent from Heaven, daily bread, and dishes filled without toil.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: withheld rain
literal_form: Rain withheld when alms cease.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: firebrand ruler
literal_form: A shameless monarch called a firebrand to his realm.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: veil and chamber of examination
literal_form: A chamber where the maiden is unveiled and examined.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Prayer at the worship-house
summary: The prince recognizes failed remedies, goes barefoot to a sacred place,
bows at the altar, weeps, and prays to God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Sleep-vision of the healer
summary: After the prince's prayer, mercy overflows, sleep falls on him, and a heavenly
voice announces a true heaven-sent healer who will arrive at daybreak.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Dawn arrival of the radiant stranger
summary: At dawn the prince watches for the promised guest, sees a radiant stranger,
and recognizes the form from his vision.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Humiliated welcome and embrace
summary: The prince meets the guest himself, speaks humbly, embraces him, kisses
hand and brow, and leads him inside.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Scriptural and moral exempla on provision and pride
summary: The narrator gives examples of heavenly food in Moses' host and Jesus'
prayer, links greed and doubt to closed mercy, and warns that pride, sin, and
presumption bring punishment or fall.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Examination of the maiden
summary: The prince tells the maiden's case; the patient is unveiled; the guest
examines signs and identifies the earlier remedies as harmful and based on misunderstanding.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: prayer answered by a heaven-sent helper
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The prince prays with tears, falls asleep, hears a heavenly promise, and
then receives the promised healer at dawn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the helper as a healer for a specific crisis rather
than as a full journey guide.
- id: motif:2
label: heaven-sent physician as divine aid
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The stranger is announced as versed in healing and true in speech and heart;
the prince calls him prince of physicians and he correctly reassesses the case.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The medical role is literal in the narrative but may also carry didactic
meaning not separately inferred here.
- id: motif:3
label: divine provision withdrawn through greed and doubt
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
- divine_judgment
basis: Heavenly food is given without toil, but ceases or mercy closes when recipients
demand other food, doubt, store away, or act greedily.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage combines multiple scriptural exempla in a didactic sequence.
- id: motif:4
label: humility rewarded and pride punished
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- divine_judgment
basis: The prince's humility and patience are rewarded with the guest, while the
passage warns that pride removes one from Heaven's elect and cites eclipse and
Satan's fall as checks on presumption.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage interweaves narrative action and moral commentary; the causal
relation is explicit for some examples and more proverbial for others.
- id: motif:5
label: patience whose bitter beginning yields sweet fruit
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The prince's meeting with the healer is linked to patience, and the text
states that patience is bitter at first but sweet in its fruit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a moral aphorism embedded in the episode rather than a developed
plot motif.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly groups the food in Moses' wilderness community and
the food associated with Jesus' prayer as examples of heavenly provision affected
by human trust, greed, and doubt.
claim_level: same_function
target: heavenly food / daily bread provision pattern in Moses and Jesus exempla
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the passage's own didactic juxtaposition and
does not establish historical dependence beyond the cited scriptural references.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage presents several figures or images—the puffed-up fool, shameless
monarch, eclipsed sun, and Satan's fall—as instances of pride or presumption being
checked or condemned.
claim_level: same_function
target: pride checked by divine or moral order
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: 'The images differ in status: some are human moral types, one is a
celestial event, and one is a named fallen figure.'
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 5514-5524
quote_or_summary: The prince goes barefoot to the worship-house, bows at the altar,
weeps over the floor, and prays to God as refuge and guide.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 5525-5534
quote_or_summary: After prayer, mercy overflows; the prince sleeps and hears a heavenly
voice promising a dawn guest, a true heaven-sent healer whose cure is by God's
power, not magic.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 5535-5544
quote_or_summary: At dawn the prince watches the road and sees a majestic, radiant
stranger, like sun behind clouds or the full moon; the form matches what he saw
in his swoon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 5545-5555
quote_or_summary: The prince comes personally to meet the heaven-sent guest; their
companies mingle and hearts unite; the prince speaks humbly, comparing the guest
to Muhammad and himself to Umar.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 5556-5574
quote_or_summary: The narrator warns against pride, then recounts heavenly food
in Moses' host, the demand for onions and lentils, Jesus' later request and daily
bread, and the closing of mercy because of doubt, storage, and greed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 5575-5584
quote_or_summary: The passage says rain is withheld when alms cease, sorrow punishes
wickedness, heavenly bodies and angels obey God, eclipse checks pride, and Satan
fell through presumption.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 5585-5594
quote_or_summary: The prince embraces the guest, kisses his hand and brow, asks
about his welfare, leads him inside, and reflects that patience is bitter at first
but sweet in fruit.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 5595-5604
quote_or_summary: The prince calls the guest a gift from God, the reward of prayer,
the solver of his despair, a friend in need, and prince of physicians.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 5605-5614
quote_or_summary: In a chamber the prince unfolds the maiden's case; the patient
is unveiled; the guest examines complexion, pulse, egesta, causes, and symptoms,
then says previous remedies were harmful and the case misunderstood.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal narrative elements are clear in the supplied passage. Motif labels
are conservative and use only available taxonomy references where directly supportable.
Comparison claims are limited to comparisons made or juxtaposed within the passage
itself.
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: |-
All observations, figures, roles, symbols, scenes, motifs, and comparison claims are tied to evidence from the supplied passage only.
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