Motif
Body and soul jointly liable
body_and_soul_jointly_liable
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4477-4528 confidence: high
A speaker likened to a stock of wood says the soul entered like a ray of light and enabled speech, sight, and walking; God answers with a parable.
The body and soul dispute responsibility, and the blind-and-lame parable is used to show that both are punished together.
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