Motif
Body as beast to be restrained
body_as_beast_to_be_restrained
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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Mystics and Saints of Islam ANECDOTE OF BAYAZID BASTAMI. / CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI; lines 4355-4473 confidence: high
The prose says the Koran acknowledges Christ as Word and Spirit of God but treats his work as superseded by Mohammed; Jalaluddin speaks of Christ as still healing and refers to Christ's entry into Jerusalem, taking the ass as the pampered body.
The prose explicitly says the ass is taken as the body pampered by the sensualist, and the poem contrasts pity for Jesus with pity for the ass and warns against fleshly impulse surpassing intellect.
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