Motif
pious death accompanied by sacred recitation
pious_death_accompanied_by_sacred_recitation
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family, within the sub-family Ritual Purification and Deathbed Recitation. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 289-349 confidence: high
Shah Shudja dies in the odour of sanctity; ten holy men continually read the Koran aloud, and he is remembered for courage, liberality, poetry, and knowing the Koran by heart.
Ten holy men continually read the Koran aloud with Shah Shudja at his deathbed.
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