Motif
Powerless false gods exposed by a small creature
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Idolatry and False Gods. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25815-25887 confidence: high
“the idols which ye invoke, besides GOD, can never create a single fly” and cannot recover what the fly snatches.
The parable contrasts invoked idols with a fly: the idols cannot create it or recover what it snatches.
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