Motif
hope for mercy despite confessed sin
hope_for_mercy_despite_confessed_sin
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Repentance and Mercy. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam APPENDIX. / PAGE 4. / PAGE 7. / PAGE 7.; lines 4417-4432 confidence: high
"If I have never threaded the pearl of thy service" and "I am not hopeless of thy mercy" because "I have never said that One was Two."
The speaker admits failure to wipe the dust of sin from their face, yet says they are not hopeless of the addressee's mercy.
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