Motif
backbiting as cannibalistic abomination
backbiting_as_cannibalistic_abomination
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Justice, Mercy, and Judicial Procedure. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLIX. / ENTITLED, THE INNER APARTMENTS; REVEALED AT MEDINA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34068-34136 confidence: high
Believers are told to avoid suspicion, prying into others' failings, and speaking ill of someone in absence; the latter is likened to desiring to eat a dead brother's flesh.
Speaking ill of another in absence is rhetorically likened to eating the flesh of one's dead brother, an act the audience would abhor.
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