Motif
abrogated or vanished revelation
abrogated_or_vanished_revelation
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Revelation and Scripture. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III; lines 3578-3663 confidence: high
Contradictory passages are addressed by the doctrine of abrogation: God commanded some things in the Koran that were later revoked and abrogated.
The passage describes divine revocation of commands, categories of abrogated passages, verses no longer extant, and a written verse that vanishes from a leaf overnight.
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