Motif
Backbiting figured as eating a dead brother
backbiting_figured_as_eating_a_dead_brother
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) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 25113-25238 confidence: high
Believers are told to avoid frequent suspicions, not to pry, and not to traduce one another in absence; the passage asks whether one would like to eat the flesh of a dead brother and says this would be loathed.
The passage uses the image of eating a dead brother's flesh to characterize traducing another in his absence.
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