Motif
wealth fails to confer immortality
wealth_fails_to_confer_immortality
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER CIV. / ENTITLED, THE SLANDERER; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 39044-39096 confidence: high
"WOE unto every slanderer, and backbiter" who heaps up riches and prepares them for the future.
The condemned figure heaps riches and thinks they will render him immortal, but the passage rejects this and states he will be cast into Al Hotama.
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