batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l952-l980
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l952-l980
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: I. LIFE / II. SHAMSI TABRIZ / A CRY TO THE BELOVED / REMEMBER GOD AND FORGET
SELF; lines 952-980
start: '952'
end: '980'
translation: 'The Persian Mystics: Jalálu''d-dín Rúmí'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: Keep God in remembrance till self is forgotten,
summary: The passage exhorts spirit and reason to seek like flowing water, to gain
eternal life by the way of death, and to remember God until self is forgotten.
It then depicts a beautiful princely beloved going out to the morning chase, whose
glance wounds hearts, and closes with images of the speaker’s body as a moon melting
for love and the heart as Zuhra’s lute with broken strings.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The addressed spirit is told to make its head, in search and seeking, like
the water of a stream.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Reason is told to tread the way of Death continually in order to gain Eternal
Life.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker says to keep God in remembrance until self is forgotten and one
is lost in the Called without distraction of caller and call.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A garden and an idol are invoked with wishes involving flowering until Resurrection
and beauty over the two worlds.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The Prince of the Fair goes proudly to the chase in the morning.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker wishes hearts may become prey to the arrow of the Prince’s glance.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Messages are said to pass continually from the beloved’s eye to the speaker’s
eye, filling the speaker’s eyes with intoxication.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker compares the body to the moon melting for Love and the heart to
Zuhra’s lute with broken strings.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: The passage tells the hearer not to focus on the moon’s waning or Zuhra’s
broken state, but on the sweetness of the beloved’s affection.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: spirit
description: An addressed spirit exhorted to search and seek like stream water.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: reason
description: An addressed reason exhorted to tread the way of Death to gain Eternal
Life.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: God / the Called
description: The object of remembrance in whom self is to be forgotten and lost.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Prince of the Fair
description: A proud princely beloved figure who goes to the morning chase and whose
glance is compared to an arrow.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: speaker / lover
description: The first-person voice whose eyes receive messages, whose body is likened
to the moon, and whose heart is likened to Zuhra’s lute.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Zuhra
description: A named figure referenced through the simile of Zuhra’s lute and broken
state.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
basis: The passage uses language of search, seeking, treading a way, and receiving
the beloved’s messages.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: object of remembrance and self-loss
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: God is to be kept in remembrance until self is forgotten and the seeker is
lost in the Called.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: beloved hunter
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Prince goes forth to the chase, and hearts are wished to fall prey to
the arrow of his glance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: love-stricken speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The speaker describes the body as melting for Love and the heart as like
a broken lute.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: stream water
literal_form: water of a stream
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: way of Death
literal_form: way of Death
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: Eternal Life
literal_form: Eternal Life
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:4
label: self-forgetting in the Called
literal_form: self forgotten; lost in the Called; caller and call
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: garden and rose until Resurrection
literal_form: garden and rose in flower to Resurrection
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: arrow of the glance
literal_form: arrow of His glance
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:7
label: eye messages
literal_form: messages passing from his eye to mine
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: melting moon body
literal_form: body like the moon melting for Love
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:9
label: broken lute heart
literal_form: heart like Zuhra’s lute with broken strings
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Seeking, death-way, and self-forgetting remembrance
summary: Spirit and reason are exhorted to seek, to take the way of Death toward
Eternal Life, and to remember God until the self is forgotten in the Called.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: The Prince of the Fair at the morning chase
summary: A beautiful princely figure goes forth to the morning chase; the speaker
wishes hearts to become prey to the arrow of his glance, while messages pass from
his eye to the speaker’s eye.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Moon and broken lute images of love
summary: The speaker describes bodily and inward states through images of a moon
melting for Love and a broken lute, then redirects attention to the sweetness
of the beloved’s affection.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Self-forgetting union in the divine call
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The passage explicitly joins remembrance of God with forgetting self and
being lost in the Called without distraction of caller and call.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is lyric and devotional rather than a narrative account of
union.
- id: motif:2
label: Mystical quest by way of death toward life
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- death_rebirth
basis: Spirit and reason are exhorted to seek and to tread the way of Death in order
to gain Eternal Life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: Death and life appear as devotional paradoxes; no literal death event
is narrated.
- id: motif:3
label: Divine or exalted beloved who wounds and intoxicates the lover
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The Prince of the Fair is portrayed as a beloved figure whose glance is an
arrow that captures hearts and whose eye sends intoxicating messages to the speaker.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not explicitly identify the Prince with God, though the
surrounding section and capitalization support a devotional-beloved reading.
- id: motif:4
label: Love as bodily waning and musical brokenness
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The speaker’s body is compared to a moon melting for Love and the heart to
a lute with broken strings, followed by an emphasis on the sweetness of affection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly matches the moon and broken-lute
imagery.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 952-958
quote_or_summary: "“O spirit,” seek like “the water of a stream”; “O reason,” to
gain “Eternal Life” tread “the way of Death.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 959-961
quote_or_summary: "“Keep God in remembrance till self is forgotten,” and be “lost
in the Called” without distraction of caller and call."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 963-966
quote_or_summary: The poem invokes a garden whose rose may remain in flower until
Resurrection and an idol whose beauty scatters the two worlds.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 967-970
quote_or_summary: The “Prince of the Fair” goes to the morning chase; the speaker
wishes hearts to fall prey to “the arrow of His glance.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 971-973
quote_or_summary: Messages pass continually from the beloved’s eye to the speaker’s
eye, and the speaker asks that the eyes be gladdened and intoxicated by the message.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 975-978
quote_or_summary: "“My body is like the moon which is melting for Love,” and the
heart is like “Zuhra’s lute” with broken strings."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 979-980
quote_or_summary: The speaker tells the hearer not to look at the moon’s waning
or Zuhra’s broken state, but to behold the sweetness of the beloved’s affection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward. Motif labels involving divine beloved
and annihilation are supported by the passage but should be reviewed because the
poems are lyric and highly metaphorical.
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: |-
Only the provided passage text, locator, source metadata, and supplied taxonomy references were used.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg__l952-l980
passage_sha256=9144e2312075f0414c60973cfc7245d6441ecb2c52ba7a7a3ef7e341e71489c6