Motif
suffering of the poor rising upward as destructive force
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I / XVIII / XXIII; lines 1085-1110 confidence: medium
A good and holy man calls the tyrant a snake and an owl, warns that his injustice cannot escape God, and tells him not to wrong the people lest their complaints rise to heaven.
The poor people's complaints are said to rise to heaven, and the later fire is explained as coming from the smoke of their afflicted hearts.
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