Motif
prosperous garden destroyed by fiery wind
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Pride, Greed, and Hubris. 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 I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 10531-10589 confidence: medium
A person is asked to imagine a garden of palms and vines with rivers and fruits, then old age and weak offspring, and then the garden burned by violent fiery wind.
The passage presents a garden with palms, vines, rivers, and fruits being burned by a violent fiery wind, as a warning image for reflection.
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