Motif
mercy exception under necessity
mercy_exception_under_necessity
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Justice, Mercy, and Judicial Procedure. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15551-15639 confidence: medium
The addressee is told to say that nothing revealed is forbidden to eat except carrion, poured-forth blood, swine flesh, or what is slain in another name than God's; necessity without wilful transgression receives divine mercy.
A person compelled by necessity to eat forbidden food, without lust or wilful transgression, is said to receive the Lord's grace and mercy.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 25848-25971 confidence: high
The text says God has perfected religion, completed His favors, chosen Islam as religion, and will be indulgent and merciful to one forced by hunger without wilful wrong.
After declaring religion perfected, the passage allows mercy for one forced by hunger without deliberate wrongdoing.
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