batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l9428-l9661
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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 9428-9661
start: '9428'
end: '9661'
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 and editorial notes presents Sufi-tinged cosmology,
wine and love imagery, antinomian figures, hidden truth behind a veil, cosmic
bulls, prayers for pardon and release from self, critiques of fate and worldly
attachment, and reflections on mortality and uncertainty.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: One note characterizes a quatrain as an extension of the doctrine that mercy
is better than sacrifice.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The world is described as a body, God as its soul, angels as its senses, and
creatures, elements, and spheres as its limbs.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The ONE is named as the sole basis of the whole.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: An idol who enchants the speaker's heart gives the speaker a cup to drink
and urges him to drink after he refuses.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Several quatrains commend wine, joy, love, rosy cheeks, and present delight
over misery or sorrow.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker lies on a river bank with a wine-cup and a maiden; a watchman
cries that day is breaking.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: A quatrain says that even if one gains the world, one must leave it and cannot
carry it away.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: In a lone waste the speaker sees a debauchee with no home, faith, heresy,
God, truth, law, or certitude.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: A voice from behind a veil tells seekers of creeds, forms, rules, doubts,
dogmas, and schools that their road lies neither here nor there.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: A quatrain names a bull in heaven called Parwin and another unseen bull beneath
the earth.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: Mankind is compared to a drove of asses between the two bulls.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: The speaker imagines advising Allah to sweep away earth and skies and build
a better one where the clear soul could act freely.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: A Cupbearer pours the wine of love, and the speaker says the cup is filled
with his heart's blood.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: The speaker prays to the Lord for pity on a prisoned heart, for pardon for
hands grasping the cup and feet going to the tavern, and for deliverance from
self.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: The wheeling dome is said to play tricks, and the earth is said to be laid
bare of old friends torn away.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:16
text: The passage advises living in the present moment, not seeking tomorrow or
mourning yesterday.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:17
text: Fortune is compared to a master with a rod who strikes people's heads to teach
them how to live.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:18
text: An eternal decree is described as unreadable, an enigma without a key, with
talk of people behind a veil.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:19
text: A quatrain says that turf will soon grow upon the dust of the speaker and
his beloved.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker
description: First-person voice in several quatrains, associated with wine, love,
prayer, doubt, and mortality.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:16
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: God / Allah / Lord / ONE
description: Divine figure described as the world's soul and the sole basis of the
whole; addressed in prayer and imagined as able to rebuild earth and skies.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:10
- ev:12
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: angels
description: Angels are described as the senses of the world-body.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: creatures, elements, and spheres
description: Named as the limbs of the world-body.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: heart-enchanting idol
description: A beloved figure who gives the speaker a cup and urges him to drink.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Cupbearer
description: A figure who pours the wine of love into the speaker's cup.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Love
description: A beloved or personified figure associated with a face, precious life,
and the speaker's heart.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:16
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: maiden
description: A bright maiden lies with the speaker on the river bank.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: watchman
description: A watchman cries out that day is breaking.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: debauchee
description: A person in a lone waste described as having no home, faith, heresy,
God, truth, law, or certitude.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: voice behind the veil
description: An unnamed voice from behind a veil that addresses seekers and says
the road lies neither here nor there.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: mankind
description: Humanity is represented as a drove of asses between two bulls.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Fortune
description: Personified as a master with a rod who strikes people to teach them
how to live.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: heaven's wheel / wheeling dome
description: A cosmic structure described as playing tricks and taking away lives.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:16
roles:
- id: role:1
label: first-person seeker and reveler
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker drinks, loves, prays, questions fate, and reflects on death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:16
- id: role:2
label: cosmic soul and divine basis
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: God is described as the world's soul and the ONE as the sole basis of the
whole.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: cosmic senses
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Angels are identified as the senses of the world-body.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: cosmic limbs
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Creatures, elements, and spheres are identified as limbs of the world-body.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: beloved or wine-giving figure
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: The idol urges drinking from a cup, the Cupbearer pours wine of love, and
Love is addressed as precious.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:11
- ev:16
- id: role:6
label: companion in river-bank revel
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The maiden lies with the speaker beside the river bank.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: penitent petitioner
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker prays for pity, pardon, deliverance from self, and union of attention
with the divine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:8
label: recipient of prayer and possible cosmic maker
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Lord is addressed in prayer, and Allah is imagined as able to sweep away
and rebuild earth and skies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:12
- id: role:9
label: announcer of dawn
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The watchman cries out that day is breaking.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: antinomian wanderer
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The debauchee is described as lacking home, faith, law, and certitude; the
note calls him an antinomian Sufi.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:11
label: hidden revealer
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The voice from behind the veil announces that truth-seekers' road lies neither
here nor there.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:12
label: deluded humanity
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Mankind is compared to asses between cosmic bulls.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:13
label: disciplining fate
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: Fortune is likened to a master with a rod who strikes heads to teach living.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:14
label: life-taking cosmic order
assigned_to:
- fig:14
basis: The wheeling dome plays tricks and heaven's wheel designs to take away lives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:16
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: cup of wine
literal_form: cup, wine-cup, morning draught, cup of wine, wine of love
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: sym:2
label: heart
literal_form: heart, prisoned heart, heart's blood
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: sym:3
label: veil
literal_form: veil behind which a voice speaks and behind which people are discussed
associated_figures:
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:15
- id: sym:4
label: world-body
literal_form: world as body with God as soul, angels as senses, and creatures/elements/spheres
as limbs
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: river bank
literal_form: river bank where the speaker lies with a wine-cup and maiden
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: two bulls
literal_form: Parwin bull in heaven and unseen bull beneath the earth
associated_figures:
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:7
label: tavern path
literal_form: hands grasping the cup and feet straying to the tavern
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:8
label: wheeling dome and heaven's wheel
literal_form: wheeling dome and heaven's wheel
associated_figures:
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:16
- id: sym:9
label: turf and dust
literal_form: turf growing upon the dust of the speaker and beloved
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: sym:10
label: rod of Fortune
literal_form: rod in Fortune's hand
associated_figures:
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: cosmic body of the world
summary: The world is mapped as a body animated by God as soul, with angels as senses
and creatures, elements, and spheres as limbs.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: beloved offers the cup
summary: A heart-enchanting idol gives the speaker a cup and urges him to drink
despite his refusal.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: river-bank revel at daybreak
summary: The speaker lies on a river bank with a wine-cup and a bright maiden until
the watchman announces daybreak.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: antinomian in the waste
summary: The speaker sees a debauchee in a lone waste, described as lacking home,
faith, law, and certitude.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: voice behind the veil
summary: Seekers in creeds and schools are answered by a voice behind the veil saying
the road lies neither here nor there.
figure_refs:
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: humanity between two bulls
summary: A heavenly bull and a hidden bull beneath the earth frame a satirical image
of mankind as asses between them.
figure_refs:
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:7
label: imagined remaking of the cosmos
summary: The speaker imagines advising Allah to remove earth and skies and build
a freer world for the clear soul.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:8
label: wine of love and heart's blood
summary: The Cupbearer pours wine of love, and the speaker says his cup is filled
with heart's blood.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:9
label: prayer for pardon and release from self
summary: The speaker asks the Lord for pity, pardon for cup and tavern habits, severance
from self, and freedom in divine occupation.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: scene:10
label: fate, veil, and mortality
summary: The quatrains describe the tricks of the wheeling dome, the discipline
of Fortune, the unreadable decree behind the veil, and the nearness of death.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: mercy preferred over sacrifice
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
basis: The passage explicitly cites the doctrine that mercy is better than sacrifice.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The line appears in an editorial note and is not developed narratively
in the supplied passage.
- id: motif:2
label: cosmos as divine organism
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The world is a body whose soul is God and whose senses and limbs are angels
and created orders.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: No matching supplied taxonomy family exactly names this cosmological body
motif.
- id: motif:3
label: wine cup from beloved as spiritualized love
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
- sacred_exchange
basis: The idol gives a cup, the Cupbearer pours wine of love, and an editorial
note glosses this as the wine of life or existence poured by Deity at creation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The quatrains also use literal revelry language, so spiritual identification
depends partly on the passage's editorial gloss.
- id: motif:4
label: hidden truth beyond creeds and schools
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- wisdom
basis: A voice behind the veil rejects creeds, forms, rules, doubts, dogmas, and
schools as the location of the road.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage states the negative direction of the road but does not narrate
a completed quest.
- id: motif:5
label: antinomian holy outsider
taxonomy_refs:
- trickster_boundary
basis: The debauchee in a lone waste is described as without home, faith, law, or
certitude, and the note identifies him as an antinomian Sufi.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The figure is not shown tricking anyone; the taxonomy reference is based
on boundary transgression rather than trickster action.
- id: motif:6
label: world supported or framed by cosmic bulls
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: One bull is seen in heaven and another is said to lurk beneath the earth;
mankind is placed between them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage's tone is satirical, and no supplied taxonomy family directly
matches a world-animal support motif.
- id: motif:7
label: self-annihilation and freedom in the divine
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
- mystical_quest
basis: The prayer asks to be severed from self, occupied with the divine, made beside
oneself, and set free.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: The phrasing is devotional and mystical, but the passage does not give
a narrative sequence of attainment.
- id: motif:8
label: divine pardon for transgressive devotion
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The speaker asks the Lord to pardon hands that grasp the cup and feet that
stray to the tavern.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The prayer asks for pardon, but no divine judgment scene or response follows.
- id: motif:9
label: mortality under the wheel of heaven
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The wheeling dome and heaven's wheel are associated with loss, removal of
old friends, and the imminent return of bodies to dust beneath turf.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family exactly names fatalistic impermanence or memento
mori.
- id: motif:10
label: unreadable decree behind the veil
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The eternal decree cannot be read, has no key, and is linked with hidden
talk behind the veil.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes unknowability rather than successful acquisition
of wisdom.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The editorial note compares the world-as-divine-whole quatrain to Pope's
line beginning 'All are but parts.'
claim_level: same_function
target: Pope, 'All are but parts'
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: Only a brief editorial comparison is provided; the cited Pope passage
is not included for direct comparison.
- id: claim:2
claim: The editorial note compares the quatrain commending eating, drinking, and
joy to a passage from Ecclesiastes.
claim_level: same_function
target: Ecclesiastes on eating, drinking, and enjoying good in labour
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is thematic and editorial; the biblical passage is not
supplied beyond the short note.
- id: claim:3
claim: The editorial note connects the hidden-truth-behind-the-veil quatrain with
the Gulshan i Raz and the idea that truth is hidden from theologians and philosophers
but revealed to mystics.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Gulshan i Raz; hidden truth revealed to mystics
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The target text is only cited in the note; no full parallel passage
is included.
- id: claim:4
claim: The editorial note says the imagined advice to Allah to remake earth and
skies recalls the celebrated speech of Alphonso X of Castile.
claim_level: same_function
target: Alphonso X of Castile speech about cosmic order
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The note gives no quotation of Alphonso's speech, so the degree of
similarity cannot be assessed from this passage alone.
- id: claim:5
claim: The editorial note compares the preference for drunken headache over Pharisaic
pride to Tartuffe.
claim_level: same_function
target: Molière, Tartuffe, i.6
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The supplied passage only gives the editor's citation and not the compared
scene.
- id: claim:6
claim: The editorial note compares the saying that those never born or soonest gone
are happiest to the chorus in Oedipus Coloneus.
claim_level: same_function
target: Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus chorus
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is explicit but not accompanied by the Greek passage
or a full quotation.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 9428-9430 / quatrain 368 note
quote_or_summary: The note says this is a violent extension of the doctrine that
mercy is better than sacrifice.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: quatrain 369
quote_or_summary: The world is a body; God is its soul; angels are its senses; creatures,
elements, and spheres are its limbs; the ONE is the basis of the whole.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: quatrain 370
quote_or_summary: An idol beloved of the speaker gives him a cup, and when he refuses,
urges him to drink to gratify the idol's heart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: quatrains 371-372, 378, 381-383
quote_or_summary: Several quatrains praise wine, love, mirth, and present pleasure,
contrasting these with misery, grief, excess criticism, or hypocritical pride.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: quatrain 373
quote_or_summary: The speaker lies on a river bank with a wine-cup and a bright
maiden; the watchman announces daybreak.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: quatrain 374
quote_or_summary: The quatrain says that even gaining the world cannot prevent leaving
it behind; one cannot carry it away.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: quatrain 375 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker sees a debauchee in a lone waste with no home, faith,
heresy, God, truth, law, or certitude; the note calls him an antinomian Sufi.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: quatrain 376
quote_or_summary: Some seek truth in creeds, rules, doubts, dogmas, and schools;
a voice behind the veil says their road lies neither here nor there.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: quatrain 377 and note
quote_or_summary: The quatrain names the heavenly bull Parwin and another unseen
bull beneath the earth; mankind appears as asses between them. The note identifies
the bulls as Taurus and the earth-supporting bull.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: quatrain 379
quote_or_summary: The speaker imagines advising Allah to sweep away earth and skies
and build a better place where the clear soul is free.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: quatrain 380 and note
quote_or_summary: The heart longs for Love; the Cupbearer pours wine of love; the
speaker's cup is filled with heart's blood. The note glosses this as the wine
of life or existence poured by Deity at creation.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: quatrains 384-385 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks the Lord to pity a prisoned heart, pardon cup-grasping
hands and tavern-going feet, deliver him from self, occupy him with the divine,
and set him free; the note calls this a mystic's prayer.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: quatrains 386-387
quote_or_summary: The wheeling dome plays tricks, old friends are torn away, the
present is urged over yesterday or tomorrow, and those never born or soonest gone
are called happy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: quatrain 388
quote_or_summary: Reason says it is right to live, but people do not know how; Fortune
is like a master with a rod striking heads to teach life.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: quatrain 389 and note
quote_or_summary: The eternal decree cannot be read and has no key; people are spoken
of behind a veil. The note explains the veil as phenomena hiding the Divine Noumenon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: quatrain 390
quote_or_summary: Heaven's wheel is said to take away the lives of the speaker and
Love; they sit on turf that will soon grow upon their dust.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:17
type: citation
locator: note to quatrain 369
quote_or_summary: 'The note compares the quatrain to Pope: ''All are but parts,''
etc.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief citation.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: note to quatrain 371
quote_or_summary: The note compares the quatrain to Ecclesiastes on eating, drinking,
and making the soul enjoy good in labour.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: note to quatrain 376
quote_or_summary: The note says truth hidden from theologians and philosophers is
revealed to mystics and cites Gulshan i Raz.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: note to quatrain 379
quote_or_summary: The note says the quatrain recalls the celebrated speech of Alphonso
X, king of Castile.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:21
type: citation
locator: note to quatrain 383
quote_or_summary: The note compares the quatrain to Tartuffe, i.6.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief citation.
- id: ev:22
type: summary
locator: note to quatrain 387
quote_or_summary: The note compares the quatrain to the chorus in Oedipus Coloneus.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The extraction uses only the supplied passage and editorial notes. Some motif
assignments are interpretive where the supplied taxonomy lacks exact matches,
especially for cosmic body, cosmic bulls, and fatalistic mortality.
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 evidence is summarized from a public-domain English translation and notes. Long quotation has been avoided in favor of concise summaries.
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