Motif
Anger and speech as world-burning fire
anger_and_speech_as_world_burning_fire
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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Mystics and Saints of Islam ANECDOTE OF BAYAZID BASTAMI. / CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI; lines 4355-4473 confidence: medium
"In each human spirit is a Christ concealed"; furious words are said to set "the world on fire."
The poem warns that blind tyrants' words of fury set the world on fire.
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