batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l6709-l6927
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR
KHAYYAM; lines 6709-6927
start: '6709'
end: '6927'
translation: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A sequence of quatrains treats futile labor, heaven and hell, spring and
wine, the beloved, inward cosmology, prophetic allusions, love, mortality, divine
rule, fate, creation as vessels, kindness, irreversible departure, sin and mercy,
and the self as belonging to Another.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker describes making bricks upon the sea as a vain task and says Khayyam
is at one time in heaven and at another in hell.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Spring, roses, a sweet face, wine, lips, cheeks, fragrance, and ruffled hair
are used in scenes of present delight and disturbance.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: obs:3
text: A master sage tells the speaker that pen, tablet, heaven, and hell are all
within the speaker.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:4
text: The passage says the fruit of certitude cannot be plucked by one who has not
taken the path or shaken the bough.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:5
text: Spring showers the land; the breath of Isa wakes the dead earth, and trees
become white like Musa's hand.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:6
text: A heart that never glows with love is described as cold, and days without
redeeming love are called wasted.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker commands drinking wine and seizing the present rather than thinking
of past or future.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:8
text: A numerical cosmology lists powers, spheres, heavens, planets, sides, senses,
elements, souls, worlds, and one human being.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:9
text: Past prophets, Musas, Caesars, and monarchs are named as examples of many
who have died or passed away.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:10
text: The heaven's wheel is said to make hearts moan and cast budding roses to earth.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:11
text: Truth is named as the only fit ruler, and all things are said to be as He
decrees.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:12
text: The azure vault and golden tray turn for many days, while humans come briefly
and pass away under fate.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:13
text: The Master is said to have framed vessels, and the speaker asks why the maker
would break or shame them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:14
text: Kindness is recommended toward friends and foes, since harshness alienates
friends and kindness reconciles foes.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:15
text: A true lover is said to seek the loved one even if she sinks to hell.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:16
text: The speaker journeys over hills, vales, and the world's four quarters and
says no pilgrim returns after going.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: obs:17
text: The speaker says mercy depends on his sins and that without sin mercy would
have no work.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: obs:18
text: The passage states that the speaker's being and passion are the being and
passion of Another.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Khayyam / first-person speaker
description: The named Khayyam and recurring first-person voice who speaks of heaven,
hell, wine, love, sin, travel, and belonging to Another.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:19
- ev:20
- ev:21
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Beloved / fair one / loved one
description: A sweet-faced addressee associated with lips, cheeks, fragrance, hair,
and the object sought by true lovers.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:8
- ev:18
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Master sage
description: The teacher who instructs the speaker that pen, tablet, heaven, and
hell are within him.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Truth / He / Master / Another
description: A divine or ultimate figure described as decreeing all things, making
vessels, and being the deeper owner of the speaker's being and passion.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:16
- ev:21
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Isa
description: A prophetic figure whose breath wakes the dead earth to life.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Musa
description: A prophetic figure whose hand is invoked in the comparison to white
flowering trees.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: True lovers
description: Lovers for whom the beloved's condition or location does not matter,
even if she sinks to hell.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Pilgrims who do not return
description: Travelers who go and, once gone, do not come back.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Mahmud and David
description: 'Named exemplars used in a wine quatrain: Mahmud for reigning and David
for music.'
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: first-person poetic speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage repeatedly uses first-person speech and names Khayyam in relation
to heaven and hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:19
- ev:20
- ev:21
- id: role:2
label: beloved addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The figure is addressed as fair and is associated with face, lips, cheeks,
fragrance, and being loved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:8
- ev:18
- id: role:3
label: instructing sage
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The master sage gives the speaker the teaching that pen, tablet, heaven,
and hell are within him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: divine ruler and maker
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Truth is named as the sole fit ruler; He decrees all things; the Master frames
vessels; Another is the source of the speaker's being and passion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:16
- ev:21
- id: role:5
label: prophetic miracle exemplar
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: Isa's breath brings dead earth to life, and Musa's hand supplies an image
for white flowering trees.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: faithful lover or seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: True lovers seek the loved one regardless of external condition or even descent
to hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: role:7
label: irreversible traveler
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The pilgrims go and do not return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: role:8
label: royal and musical exemplars
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Mahmud and David are invoked as models of reigning and music in the wine
exhortation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: sea as impossible work-site
literal_form: sea on which bricks are made
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: wine
literal_form: wine poured and drunk
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
- ev:20
- id: sym:3
label: spring, roses, and flowers
literal_form: spring breath, rose, flowers, budding rose
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: sym:4
label: pen and tablet
literal_form: pen and tablet associated with decrees
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: heaven and hell
literal_form: heaven and hell
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:18
- id: sym:6
label: fruit, path, and bough of certitude
literal_form: fruit of certitude, path, bough shaken by hand
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: ordered cosmological numbers
literal_form: ten powers, nine spheres, eight heavens, seven planets, six sides,
five senses, four elements, three souls, two worlds, one human
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:8
label: heaven's wheel, azure vault, and golden tray
literal_form: heaven's wheel, azure coloured vault, golden tray
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- id: sym:9
label: vessels made by the Master
literal_form: vessels framed and possibly broken by the Master
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: sym:10
label: fragrance and wandering heart
literal_form: fragrance carried by zephyrs and the heart leaving its master
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Futile labor and unstable afterlife status
summary: The speaker rejects a vain task and says Khayyam is alternately in heaven
and hell.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Spring, wine, and the beloved
summary: The passage presents spring sweetness, the beloved's face, wine, lips,
cheeks, fragrance, and the speaker's troubled mind or wandering heart.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: scene:3
label: Inward pen, tablet, heaven, and hell
summary: A master sage instructs the speaker that cosmological and afterlife realities
are found within him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Quest for certitude and love
summary: The text links certitude to taking a path and shaking a bough, and it calls
loveless days wasted.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Spring renewal through prophetic images
summary: Spring rain and the breath of Isa revive the dead earth, while white flowering
trees are compared with Musa's hand.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Wine and present time
summary: The speaker commands drinking wine, invokes Mahmud and David, and urges
not thinking of past or future but seizing today.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:7
label: Cosmic order and divine rule
summary: The passage lists a descending cosmological order and declares Truth the
sole ruler whose decree shapes all things.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:14
- id: scene:8
label: Transience of people and worlds
summary: Past prophets and rulers have passed away; the heaven's wheel harms hearts
and buds; the vault and golden tray continue while humans come briefly and depart.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:13
- ev:15
- id: scene:9
label: Vessels, kindness, sin, and mercy
summary: The passage asks why the Master would blame or break vessels he made, recommends
kindness to friends and enemies, and says mercy depends on sins.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:20
- id: scene:10
label: Irreversible journey and seeking the beloved
summary: True lovers seek the beloved even in hell, and pilgrims who go away are
said not to return.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:19
- id: scene:11
label: Being of Another
summary: The passage closes by saying the speaker's being, passion, and hand belong
to or cover Another.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Inward heaven, hell, and wisdom teaching
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: A master sage teaches that pen, tablet, heaven, and hell are all within the
speaker.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a didactic mystical statement, but broader doctrinal
identification requires review.
- id: motif:2
label: Mystical quest for certitude
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The fruit of certitude requires taking the path and shaking the bough; the
speaker also journeys through hills, vales, and the world's quarters.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:19
confidence: medium
cautions: The journey in quatrain 129 may also be a mortality image rather than
a spiritual itinerary.
- id: motif:3
label: Divine beloved sought beyond conditions
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The beloved is pursued by true lovers regardless of appearance, status, or
descent to hell; beloved imagery recurs throughout the passage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:8
- ev:18
confidence: medium
cautions: The beloved may be human, mystical, or deliberately ambiguous; the note
only says quatrain 128 is probably mystical.
- id: motif:4
label: Spring renewal and revivification
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
- resurrection
basis: Spring showers the land, Isa's breath wakes dead earth to life, and trees
flower white.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The resurrection element is expressed through seasonal and prophetic analogy,
not a full eschatological resurrection scene.
- id: motif:5
label: Transience and irreversible departure
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Past prophets and kings pass away; humans come briefly and pass away; pilgrims
who go do not return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:15
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not provide a destination map, only the fact of departure
and non-return.
- id: motif:6
label: Divine decree and created vessels
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Truth decrees all things, and the speaker questions why the Master would
cast out or break vessels he made.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage questions blame and making rather than narrating a formal
judgment scene.
- id: motif:7
label: Union or identity with Another
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The speaker's being and passion are described as the being and passion of
Another.
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
confidence: medium
cautions: The lines are brief and require human review before assigning a specific
Sufi technical doctrine.
- id: motif:8
label: Mercy called forth by sin
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The speaker says that if he had not sinned, mercy would have nothing to do,
and that mercy depends on his sins.
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
confidence: low
cautions: The taxonomy fit is uncertain; the passage presents a theological paradox
rather than a clear exchange ritual.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The pen and tablet imagery is explicitly linked by the note to Qur'anic divine
decree, where Allah writes decrees with the pen on the tablet.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Qur'anic Pen and Tablet decree motif
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The extracted passage includes an editorial note rather than a full
Qur'anic citation in the quatrain itself.
- id: claim:2
claim: The spring-renewal quatrain explicitly uses prophetic miracle imagery, comparing
revived earth to Isa's life-giving breath and flowering trees to Musa's white
hand.
claim_level: same_function
target: Abrahamic/Islamic prophetic miracle pattern of revivification and divine
sign
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The comparison is limited to the allusions named in the provided note
and lines.
- id: claim:3
claim: The numerical cosmology is explicitly glossed as a summary of the Muhammadan
doctrine of emanations and includes a note comparing three souls to Aristotle's
De Anima.
claim_level: same_function
target: Islamic emanation cosmology and Aristotelian vegetive, animal, and human
souls
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage provides only a compressed list and an editorial note;
detailed doctrinal alignment is not shown.
- id: claim:4
claim: The use of Truth as the divine ruler is explicitly glossed as a Sufi name
for the Deity.
claim_level: linguistic_similarity
target: Sufi divine name 'Truth' / al-Haqq
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim rests on the provided editorial note and does not analyze
the Persian original.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 6709-6712
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks, "How long must I make bricks upon the sea?"
and says Khayyam is one while in heaven and one in hell.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt/summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: quatrain 112, lines 6716-6719
quote_or_summary: Spring is sweet to the rose's face; the beloved's face adds charm;
today is sweet while yesterday is sad.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: quatrain 113, lines 6728-6731
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks for wine and song, says he will hang upon the
fair one's lips, and compares rosy wine to her cheeks and his troubled mind to
her ruffled hair.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: quatrain 114 and note, lines 6736-6741
quote_or_summary: The master sage says, "Pen, tablet, heaven and hell are all in
thee"; the note links the pen and tablet to Allah's decrees in the Koran.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt/summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: quatrain 115, lines 6744-6748
quote_or_summary: The fruit of certitude cannot be plucked by one who has not struck
the path or shaken the bough; today is lost and tomorrow is hoped for.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: quatrain 116 and note, lines 6751-6757
quote_or_summary: Spring showers the land; "'Isa's breath wakes the dead earth to
life," and trees are white like Musa's hand; the note identifies allusions to
Jesus and Moses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt/summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: quatrain 117, lines 6760-6763
quote_or_summary: A cold heart without love or charming madness is lamented, and
loveless days are called especially wasted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: quatrain 118, lines 6768-6771
quote_or_summary: Zephyrs carry the beloved's fragrance; the speaker's heart leaves
him and leaps toward the beloved as its pattern.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: quatrain 119, lines 6777-6780
quote_or_summary: The speaker commands drinking wine, says one will reign like Mahmud
and hear music beyond David's strain, and urges seizing today.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: quatrain 120 and note, lines 6783-6788
quote_or_summary: A numbered cosmology lists ten powers through one human; the note
calls it a summary of the Muhammadan doctrine of emanations and mentions Aristotle's
three souls.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: quatrain 121 and note, lines 6791-6795
quote_or_summary: Jewry has seen many prophets die, Sinai many Musas, Rome many
Caesars, and Kasra's dome many monarchs; the note says time is long and life short.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: quatrain 122 and note, lines 6798-6802
quote_or_summary: Gold does not create wit, but poverty makes earth's flowery carpet
a dungeon bed; a full purse makes the rose smile and empty-handed violets hang
down.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: quatrain 123, lines 6805-6808
quote_or_summary: Heaven's wheel makes hearts moan and throws budding roses to earth;
youth and strength should not be trusted because buds may be blasted before blooming.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: quatrain 124 and note, lines 6811-6816
quote_or_summary: Truth alone is fit to rule; all things are as He decrees; the
note says Truth is a Sufi name for the Deity.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: quatrain 125 and note, lines 6819-6824
quote_or_summary: The azure vault and golden tray turn for many days, while humans
are impelled by fate, come here briefly, and pass away; the note identifies the
golden tray as the Sun.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: quatrain 126, lines 6827-6831
quote_or_summary: The Master framed vessels; the speaker asks why he should cast
them out, shame them, break them, or blame them if he made or marred them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: quatrain 127, lines 6834-6838
quote_or_summary: Kindness should be shown to friends and foes; harshness alienates
friends, and kindness reconciles a deadly foe.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: quatrain 128 and note, lines 6841-6845
quote_or_summary: For true lovers it does not matter whether the loved one is dark
or fair, in silk or sackcloth, on down or dust, rising to heaven or sinking to
hell; the note says probably mystical.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: quatrain 129, lines 6848-6852
quote_or_summary: The speaker journeys through hills, vales, and the world's four
quarters but hears of no pilgrim who returns once gone.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: quatrain 130 and note, lines 6855-6861
quote_or_summary: Wine-houses flourish through the speaker's thirst; remorse weighs
on him; he says that if he had not sinned, mercy would have nothing to do, and
mercy depends on his sins.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary from provided passage.
- id: ev:21
type: quote
locator: quatrain 131, lines 6864-6867
quote_or_summary: '"Thy being is the being of Another" and "Thy passion is the passion
of Another"; the hand is called the cover of Another.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt/summary from provided passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit and includes
editorial notes. Motif classification is more tentative where beloved, wine, sin,
and union language may be literal, mystical, ironic, or deliberately polyvalent.
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 and metadata were used. Candidate motif taxonomy references are limited to the supplied available taxonomy list.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l6709-l6927
passage_sha256=a67504f9ddbc2fb5e4352f1857426603b4b1d38b51e45e258bd87063e695bb51