Comparative mythology corpus

Inner Purification Surpassing Outer Washing

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Islamic The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5169-5222 high Al-Ghazali lists four degrees of purification, from cleansing the body to purging secret thoughts; he compares the body to a shell and the heart to a kernel and criticizes merely exterior purification joined to pride, ignorance, and hypocrisy. record