Motif
ascetic rejection of worldly valuation at death
ascetic_rejection_of_worldly_valuation_at_death
A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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Mystics and Saints of Islam THE ANGEL GABRIEL AND THE INFIDEL. / THE CLAY OF WHICH MAN IS MADE. / THE DEAD CRIMINAL. / ANECDOTE OF BAYAZID BASTAMI.; lines 3803-3854 confidence: high
The narrator says Attar in later life carried asceticism so far that he stopped composing poetry, and that his death illustrates Sufi indifference to external things.
Attar rejects a high ransom, accepts the valuation of a bag of straw, and is killed; the narrator frames this as Sufi indifference to external things and as the death Attar desired.
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