Motif
ascetic discipline undone by pleasure and wine
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A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Drinking, Social Disorder, and Religious Dispute. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam LXXXVIII. / LXXXIX. / XCII. / XCIII.; lines 4192-4209 confidence: medium
The cited C. 170 verse says that when the speaker inclined to prayer and fasting he thought salvation had been attained, but ablutions were destroyed by pleasures and the fast annulled by half a draught of wine.
The cited source verse states that prayer, fasting, ablutions, and a fast are negated by pleasures and wine.
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