Motif
rejection of revelation as magic or human speech
rejection_of_revelation_as_magic_or_human_speech
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Revelation and Scripture. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 1143-1311 confidence: high
God is to deal with a created man given riches and sons who opposes the signs, plots, turns away, calls the message magic and mortal speech, and is to be cast into Hell-fire.
The hostile figure dismisses the message as magic and the word of a mortal before being threatened with Hell-fire.
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