Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

faithful sufferers and fiery ordeal

faithful_sufferers_and_fiery_ordeal

A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family, within the sub-family Funerary Fires and Fiery Trials. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


islamic

  • The Koran (Al-Qur'an) IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXV. / ENTITLED, THE CELESTIAL SIGNS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38191-38267 confidence: medium

    The passage swears by heaven, the promised day of judgment, and witness/witnessed; it curses the contrivers of the fuel-fed pit who sat around it and witnessed what they did against true believers.

    Believers are afflicted for belief in God by figures associated with a fuel-fed pit of fire; a note links this to martyrs cast into a fire-filled trench.

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