batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2637-l2669
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2637-l2669
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: XXXII / XXXIII / XXXIV / XXXVI; lines 2637-2669
start: '2637'
end: '2669'
translation: Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The speaker addresses the beloved, asks that the past not be questioned,
contrasts Love’s fire and enduring faith with royal sovereignty, warns that a
monk without treasure cannot provide truth or alchemy, points instead to the wandering
dervish’s goal, denies that learned books hold the key to Love’s locked gateway,
and urges Hafiz to accept the season of roses without asking why.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker addresses a beloved and asks that the past be questioned no more.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The beloved is described as the breath of mercy passing over the whole world,
while the speaker calls himself an offender.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage says the secret of Love’s fire can be made manifest, and directs
attention to a steadfast torch flame rather than the wind’s wayward choir.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker says he will no longer sing of Darius and Alexander’s sovereignty.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: A monk is said not to possess Truth’s pure gold or alchemy because his treasure-house
is bare and his hearth-stone cold.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: A wandering dervish is mentioned as moving toward a goal, and the passage
warns not to question his rags.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says learned books do not contain the key to Love’s locked gateway.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: A heart made wise through pain and sorrow is told to ask for no remedy.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: When the time of roses comes again, Hafiz is urged to take what it gives before
it passes.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker
description: The first-person voice addressing the beloved and later naming Hafiz.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: beloved
description: The addressee described as a breath of mercy over the whole world.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: monk
description: A monk described as hiding no riches and unable to give Truth’s pure
gold or teach alchemy.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: wandering dervish
description: A dervish whose goal is to be asked about, while his rags are not to
be questioned.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Hafiz
description: Named figure urged to take what the time of roses gives before it flies.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Darius and Alexander
description: Royal figures whose sovereignty the speaker says he no longer sings
of.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: penitent speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker calls himself an offender and asks the beloved not to question
the past.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: merciful beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The beloved is described as the breath of mercy passing over the whole wide
world.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: false or empty religious teacher
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The monk is said to lack Truth’s pure gold, alchemical knowledge, treasure,
and warmth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: wandering seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The dervish is described as wandering toward a goal or desire not understood
by others.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: recipient of counsel
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Hafiz is directly instructed to accept what the time of roses gives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: earthly sovereigns
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Darius and Alexander are mentioned only in relation to sovereignty that the
speaker no longer sings of.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Love’s fire
literal_form: fire
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: torch flame
literal_form: steadfastly burning torch flame
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: Truth’s pure gold
literal_form: gold
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: alchemy
literal_form: alchemy
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: wandering dervish’s rags
literal_form: rags
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: Love’s locked gateway and key
literal_form: locked gateway and key
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:7
label: learned books
literal_form: books
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:8
label: time of roses
literal_form: roses
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:9
label: breath of mercy
literal_form: breath passing over the world
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Appeal to the merciful beloved
summary: The speaker addresses the beloved, identifies the beloved with mercy, calls
himself an offender, and asks that the past not be questioned.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Love’s fire over worldly sovereignty
summary: The speaker points to Love’s fire and a steadfast torch flame, asks about
undying faith and love, and rejects singing of Darius and Alexander’s sovereignty.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Monk and dervish contrasted
summary: The passage warns not to ask a monk for truth or alchemy because he lacks
treasure, but directs attention to the goal of the wandering dervish rather than
his rags.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Books fail to open Love’s gateway
summary: The passage says learned books do not provide the key to Love’s locked
gateway, tells the sorrow-wise heart not to seek a remedy, and urges Hafiz to
accept the returning time of roses.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: mystical love beyond discursive questioning
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- divine_beloved
basis: Repeated injunctions not to ask or question are tied to Love’s fire, the
beloved as mercy, and the inability of books to supply the key to Love’s locked
gateway.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is lyric and does not explicitly identify the beloved as divine;
the motif assignment relies on internal Sufi-lyric imagery and available taxonomy
labels.
- id: motif:2
label: wandering dervish as seeker of hidden goal
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The passage directs inquiry toward the goal of the wandering dervish while
rejecting attention to his rags.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The goal is not specified in the passage.
- id: motif:3
label: wisdom through suffering rather than books
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage contrasts learned books, which fail to yield the key to Love’s
gateway, with a heart grown wise in pain and sorrow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The exact content of the wisdom is not spelled out beyond relation to
Love and acceptance.
- id: motif:4
label: renunciation of worldly sovereignty
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The speaker says he no longer sings of Darius and Alexander’s sovereignty,
placing this after faith and love that never dies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: low
cautions: The passage only states rejection of royal sovereignty as a topic; it
does not explicitly describe annihilation or union.
- id: motif:5
label: seasonal rose-time accepted before it passes
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: The passage speaks of the time of roses coming again and urges Hafiz to take
what it gives before it flies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The seasonal cycle is brief and figurative; no fuller mythic seasonal
narrative is present.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 2637-2644
quote_or_summary: The speaker addresses the beloved, asks who told the beloved not
to ask about his life or dwelling, calls the beloved the breath of mercy over
the world, calls himself the offender, and asks that the past be questioned no
more.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 2645-2652
quote_or_summary: The speaker says the secret of Love’s fire may be seen, directs
attention to a steadfast torch flame rather than the wind’s choir, asks about
faith and love that never dies, and says he sings no more of Darius and Alexander’s
sovereignty.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 2653-2660
quote_or_summary: The passage says not to ask the monk for Truth’s pure gold or
alchemy, because he has no riches, bare treasure-house, and cold hearth; instead
ask what goal the wandering dervish seeks, and do not question his rags.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 2661-2669
quote_or_summary: The passage says learned books will not yield the key to Love’s
locked gateway; the heart grown wise through pain and sorrow should ask no remedy;
when the time of roses returns, Hafiz should take what it gives before it passes
and ask no more why.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels are cautious
because the passage is lyric and symbolic rather than narrative; no passage-supported
comparison claims were added.
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: |-
The provided passage text contains only section XXXVI despite the locator label listing multiple section numbers; extraction follows the supplied passage text.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg__l2637-l2669
passage_sha256=24225faef998df7ebe4f8ff18631a651be71f203d54e25197f43ee23d1edb4a5