Motif
Filial piety and mature gratitude
filial_piety_and_mature_gratitude
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Family and Kinship Order. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17445-17575 confidence: high
Man is commanded to show kindness to parents; his mother bears and brings him forth with pain, and bearing and weaning total thirty months.
The passage commands kindness to parents, recalls the mother's pain, and presents the mature person's prayer for gratitude, good works, and righteous offspring.
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