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| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | Branwen the daughter of Llyr; cauldron origin and battlefield use | high | Bendigeid Vran says the cauldron restores a slain man by the next day, but the revived man cannot speak. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | Branwen the daughter of Llyr; cauldron origin and battlefield use | medium | The Irish kindle fire under the cauldron of renovation, fill it with dead bodies, and the bodies rise next day as fighting men unable to speak. | record |
| Egyptian | The Book of the Dead | CHAPTER VII, The Judgment of Osiris; Chapter CXXV and Papyrus of Ani judgment vignette | medium | Horus tells Osiris that Ani's heart is righteous, has come forth from the Balance, has no sin before any god or goddess, and that Thoth has written the judgment. | record |
| Egyptian | The Book of the Dead | CHAPTER IX, A Short Description of the "Doors" or Chapters of the Book of the Dead; summaries of Chapters LXIV, LXXIV-LXXXVIII, CXLIV-CXLVII, and CLV-CLXVII | medium | Chapter LXIV is an epitome of the whole Book of the Dead, and it formed a "great and divine protection" for the deceased. | record |
| Norse | The Poetic Edda | HELGAKVITHA HJORVARTHSSONAR / THE LAY OF HELGI THE SON OF HJORVARTH / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / OF HJORVARTH AND SIGRLIN; lines 11252-11299 | high | Sigar reports Helgi fell in the morning at Frekastein; calls him the noblest king beneath the sun; says Alf has the joy of victory. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4945-4992 | high | Hippolytus came again to daylight and upper air, recalled by Diana's love and the Healer's drugs. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES.; lines 1391-1474 | high | The shark laughs at Okikurumi; Okikurumi cuts the rope, reaches land after a long time, and revives the dead Samayunguru. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 10947-11054 | medium | The princess asks the bird to identify her brothers among the black stones; the bird reluctantly tells her to take a pitcher and sprinkle its water over every black stone while descending. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 5485-5587 | high | The hunchback, already half drunk, comes to the tailor singing and playing a drum; the tailor brings him home, the wife invites him to supper, and he chokes on a fish bone and is believed to die. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 2092-2197 | high | Goonur springs onto the supposed nest, sinks into water, cannot escape drowning, and his wives watch the success of their stratagem before returning to camp. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 2199-2299 | high | Goonur's mother follows the wives' tracks to the creek, finds the bodies on stakes, removes them, treats them with medicines, dresses wounds, places them on ants' nests, and they begin to move and live again. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 457-559 | high | Bahloo says that if the daens obey, they will come to life again after death. He throws bark into the creek, where it rises and floats, then throws a stone that sinks, saying refusal will make them like the stone and never rise again. The daens still refuse. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 457-559 | high | Bahloo says that if the daens obey, they will come to life again after death. He throws bark into the creek, where it rises and floats, then throws a stone that sinks, saying refusal will make them like the stone and never rise again. The daens still refuse. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 561-655 | medium | Byamee cuts open the kurreahs, removes the slime-covered and seemingly lifeless wives, lays them on red-ant nests, sees signs of life, hears a thunder-like sound from their ears, and the women rise; he warns them about deep Narran holes where kurreahs may dwell. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | CHAPTER XVII. / AUTUMN FLOODS. / CHAPTER XVIII. / PERFECT HAPPINESS.; lines 7624-7756 | medium | Chuang Tzŭ asks if the skull would accept renewed body, bones, and flesh to return to family and friends; the skull refuses to exchange its happiness for mortal toil. | record |
| Sufi | The Confessions of Al Ghazzali | THE CONFESSIONS OF AL GHAZZALI / THE SUBTERFUGES OF THE SOPHISTS / THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH / THE AIM OF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY AND ITS RESULTS; lines 563-610 | high | Naturalists are said to believe existence depends on bodily equilibrium, that the thinking faculty perishes with the organism, and to deny immortality of the soul, heaven, hell, resurrection, and judgment. | record |
| Sufi | The Confessions of Al Ghazzali | THE SUBTERFUGES OF THE SOPHISTS / THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH / THE AIM OF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY AND ITS RESULTS / DIVISIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES; lines 698-792 | medium | The passage rejects the proposition that bodies do not rise again and that future reward or punishment is spiritual only, affirming physical punishment under Divine Law. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. FINN'S MADNESS / CHAPTER XII. THE RED WOMAN / CHAPTER XIII. FINN AND THE PHANTOMS / CHAPTER XIV. THE PIGS OF ANGUS; lines 10074-10174 | high | Finn says that if the pigs are left as they are, "they will come to life again," and orders, "let us burn them" and throw their ashes into the sea. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER V. THE QUARREL / CHAPTER VI. THE WANDERERS / CHAPTER VII. FIGHTING AND PEACE / CHAPTER VIII. THE BOAR OF BEINN GULBAIN; lines 12985-13086 | medium | Angus says he had watched and protected Diarmuid every night since bringing him to Brugh na Boinne as a nine-month-old until the previous night; he says Diarmuid's blood has been shed by the Boar, calls Finn's action treachery, and orders the body taken to the Brugh, promising either to bring Diarmuid back to life or put life into him so he can speak daily. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN / CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN; lines 14266-14358 | high | A smith makes a key for a cave door, enters a wide place, sees very large men lying on the floor, and recognizes the largest figure in the middle with the Dord Fiann beside him as Finn among the Fianna. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2303-2409 | high | At the well of Slaine, Diancecht, Octruil, and Airmed sing spells and add herbs; dead or death-wounded men placed in the well come out whole and more vigorous in battle. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE LANDING / CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN / BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES. / CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG; lines 2896-2982 | high | Manannan gives his own swine for food; though killed and eaten one day, they are alive and fit for eating again the next day, continuing forever. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL / CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY; lines 3892-3967 | high | The stranger plays again, announces he is coming, and the gate guards raise their axes but strike one another until they lie stretched in blood. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL / CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY; lines 4062-4091 | high | Angry at what he sees, the man of tricks beheads the boy with a sword; after O'Cealaigh objects, he rejoins head and body, first with the face backwards, then twists the head straight so the boy is well again. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL / CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY; lines 4062-4091 | medium | The narrator says this is how Manannan went around Ireland doing tricks and wonders; no one could keep him anywhere, he escaped the gallows with another man in his place, and he revived those he killed with a herb from his bag. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN / CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC; lines 4258-4356 | medium | The woman calls for food for the guest; the man of the house says he has seven pigs that can feed the whole world because a pig killed and eaten today will be alive again tomorrow; another man enters with an axe, a log, and a pig. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S MOTHER. / CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA / BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS; lines 6660-6711 | high | Wind and waves drive the boat until she sees two living birds carrying a dead one; they place it on an island, it rises living, and the three fly away. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S MOTHER. / CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA / BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS; lines 6660-6711 | high | At the strand, the woman says Finn has brought him back dead; she cries over the bird, brings it into a little boat, and asks Finn to push it to sea. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IX. THE HIGH KING'S SON / CHAPTER X. THE KING OF LOCHLANN AND HIS SONS / CHAPTER XI. LABRAN'S JOURNEY / CHAPTER XII. THE GREAT FIGHT; lines 8134-8219 | medium | Ogarmach challenges Finn; their fight is compared to great waves, and Finn cuts through her crown, beheads her, then falls in blood as though dead but rises again. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 11552-11728 | high | Jerome is cited for an Adonis solemnity in which he is mourned as if dead, afterward praised as reviving, and the killing and resurrection of Adonis are followed with mourning and joy. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 11730-11849 | high | Cited interpretations identify Adonis with sown grain, describe six months in earth and six with Aphrodite, and interpret Adonis’s death and resurrection through seeds dying in earth and crops being reborn. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 11851-11982 | high | The Hilaria, resurrection, annual mourning, a claim that the buried figure revived, seed-cycle explanation, idol brought from burial, rejoicing, salvation from Hades, and a saved-god formula are cited and compared. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 11984-12134 | medium | The cited Plutarch passage is associated with Osiris's dismemberments, revivals, regenerations, and burials. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3499-3538 | high | A Karen wizard catches a sleeper’s wandering soul and transfers it to a dead man, causing the dead man to live and the sleeper to die; further thefts can create a succession of deaths and resurrections. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | PREFACE. / J. G. FRAZER. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY.; lines 355-440 | high | Virbius is identified with Hippolytus, killed by horses, restored by Aesculapius, hidden by Diana at Nemi from Jupiter, and worshipped as a forest king; horses are excluded from the sanctuary because they killed Hippolytus. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5305-5354 | medium | In the Saxon and Thüringen custom, after the Wild Man is shot he is brought to life again by a doctor. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5356-5395 | high | In Saxony and Thüringen, the representative of the tree-spirit is killed and then brought to life again by a doctor. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5397-5472 | high | A Hindu who offends by killing or ill-treating certain animals before Vishnu’s worshippers must expiate by pretended sacrifice and resurrection of a human being, who bleeds, feigns death, and is revived by blood sprinkling. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5397-5472 | medium | Frazer introduces 'Carrying out Death,' reviews his explanation of the priest of Nemi being slain by his successor, and proposes to examine killing and resurrection of the god as tree-god, animal, corn, or human representative of corn. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5474-5552 | high | Frazer says resurrection of the pretended dead person is sometimes enacted; in one Swabian example, Dr. Iron-Beard bleeds a sick man who falls as dead, then restores him to life by blowing air through a tube. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5746-5781 | medium | Frazer states that Death is represented by a puppet that is thrown away, while Summer or Life is represented by branches or trees brought back; he adds that sometimes the Death image itself seems to gain life potency and become an instrument of revival. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6100-6145 | high | At Byblus, Adonis's death is mourned with weeping, wailing, and breast-beating; the next day he is believed to come to life again and ascend to heaven in the presence of worshippers. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6236-6295 | medium | A Babylonian legend says Istar descends to Hades to fetch the water of life to restore dead Thammuz; water appears to have been thrown over him during a mourning ceremony around his funeral pyre. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6465-6519 | high | “Like Adonis, he appears to have been a god of vegetation, and his death and resurrection were annually mourned and rejoiced over at a festival in spring.” The passage adds that their legends and rites were so similar that ancients sometimes identified them. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6597-6671 | high | Osiris travels spreading civilization; on return Set/Typhon and seventy-two others plot against him, seal him in a decorated coffer with molten lead, cast it into the Nile, and it floats to the sea. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | high | Dionysus is introduced as a vegetation god believed to have died violently, been brought to life again, and had his sufferings, death, and resurrection enacted in rites. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | high | Minerva keeps Dionysus’s heart and gives it to Jupiter, who learns of the crime, kills the Titans, makes an image containing the heart, and builds a temple in Dionysus’s honour. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | high | A different form of the myth says Dionysus descended into Hades to bring his mother Semele up from the dead. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | medium | The Cretans celebrated a biennial festival representing Dionysus’s sufferings and death in detail, and where resurrection belonged to the myth it was also enacted in the rites. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | high | The Argive tradition says Dionysus descended through the Alcyonian lake; the Argives annually celebrated his return by summoning him from the water with trumpet blasts and throwing a lamb into the lake for the warder of the dead. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7183-7267 | high | An agreement assigns Proserpine part of each year underground with Pluto and part above with Demeter and the gods; Frazer calls this annual death and resurrection, descent and ascension, represented in rites. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7898-7979 | high | The passage states that Proserpine's death and resurrection, combined with her vegetation-deity nature, links her myth with the cults of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, and Dionysus, and raises the question of annual divine death and resurrection arising from rustic rites among reapers and vine-dressers. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 1039-1079 | high | In Beauce, people make a straw-man called the great mondard in late April, process it through the village, place it on the oldest apple-tree, later throw it into water or burn it and cast the ashes into water, and give the title great mondard to the person who plucks the first fruit. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 1039-1079 | high | The corn-spirit’s resurrection is represented by setting up the stuffed ox and yoking it to the plough, and is compared with tree-spirit resurrection in the person of the Wild Man. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 1081-1138 | medium | Frazer concludes that Dionysus as goat and bull was a vegetation god; he suggests that rending a live bull or goat in Dionysian rites distributed the god's life-giving fertility, that the raw flesh was eaten as a sacrament, and that Dionysus's resurrection may have been represented by stuffing and setting up the slain ox. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 11072-11304 | high | Resurrection of animals, traces of belief in resurrection in folk-tales, and simulation of death and resurrection at initiatory rites are indexed. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2453-2526 | medium | Five new sacred wands with bamboo leaves are set up when a bear is killed; "the leaves mean that the bear may come to life again." | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2576-2642 | high | The passage describes the captive bear as receiving near-worship: Gilyak lead him house to house for family blessing; this is compared to a European May-tree or tree-spirit spring procession; bamboo leaves and a prayer indicate the bear’s expected return into an Aino; special vessels hold the bear’s flesh. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2913-2969 | high | A general belief is stated that preserved animal bones may be reclothed with flesh and return to life; Minnetaree bison bones are said to rise again, renewed and fit for slaughter the following June. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2913-2969 | high | Buffalo skulls are described as arranged in circles and piles awaiting resurrection; Dacotas collect, scrape, wash, and bury dog bones after a feast to show respect and because the bones may rise and reproduce another dog. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2913-2969 | high | Lapps preserve bones and selected animal parts, lay them anatomically in a coffin, and bury them, believing the sacrificial god will restore the animal in Jabme-Aimo; Kamtchatkans are said to believe all creatures rise and live underground. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2913-2969 | high | Folk-tales are said to preserve the belief that animals or people revive if bones are kept; in a Magyar tale, a serpent-king orders and washes a dismembered hero's bones, revives him, and replaces a lost shoulder-blade with gold and ivory. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2913-2969 | medium | Lapps preserve bones and selected animal parts, lay them anatomically in a coffin, and bury them, believing the sacrificial god will restore the animal in Jabme-Aimo; Kamtchatkans are said to believe all creatures rise and live underground. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2913-2969 | medium | The passage contrasts present-world animal resurrection among North American Indians with otherworldly examples, notes Mongolian stuffed or stretched sacrificial skins, and discusses reluctance to break animal bones or let dogs gnaw them. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2971-3035 | medium | Frazer suggests the original reason for the custom may have been a belief that the sinew was necessary to reproduction and that animals deprived of it could not come to life again in this world or the spirit land. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 6654-6693 | high | When the negress wears the necklace Sodewa Bai dies; when she removes it at night Sodewa Bai’s soul returns and she lives, then dies again when it is worn in the morning. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 6771-6845 | medium | In a Pentamerone story, astrologers say a queen will live only as long as her twin brother, a dragon; if he dies, she can be restored by smearing parts of her body with his blood. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 6982-7037 | medium | Bitiu says he will go to the Valley of the Acacia, enchant his heart, place it on the top flower of the Acacia, and that if the Acacia is cut and the heart falls, Anupu must put it in fresh water so Bitiu comes to life again; bubbling beer will be the sign of danger. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7039-7104 | high | The elder brother observes ominous beer and wine, finds Bitiu dead, searches for the heart, finds it in an Acacia berry, puts it in fresh water, and Bitiu revives and drinks the water so his heart returns to its place. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7106-7174 | high | The man destroys six hearts, demands his mother’s revival for the seventh, uses a spirit-bag to restore her bones to life, and then destroys the seventh heart. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7602-7660 | high | The passage says that among many tribes, especially totemic ones, puberty initiation often includes a pretense of killing a lad and restoring him to life; this is explained as extracting the youth’s soul and transferring it to the totem. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7662-7731 | high | Australian examples: Thuremlin kills and restores boys; Bullroarer sound is said to be wizards swallowing and bringing boys up again; the Ualaroi say a ghost kills and revives a boy as a man. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7662-7731 | high | A resurrection ceremony places a disguised old man in a covered grave holding a bush; novices are brought to the grave, a song is sung, the bush moves, and the man rises. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7733-7804 | high | At the king’s order a forest place is appointed; youths are brought there weeping, told they must suffer death, dispose of property, and are instructed by initiated persons in a dance called killing and songs praising Belli. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7806-7886 | high | Among the Naudowessies, Carver saw a candidate kneel before a chief, receive a bean-like object, fall motionless as if shot, then revive after blows and expel the object from his mouth. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7806-7886 | high | Among the Naudowessies, Carver saw a candidate kneel before a chief, receive a bean-like object, fall motionless as if shot, then revive after blows and expel the object from his mouth. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7958-8041 | high | Mothers and sisters mourn; sponsors return announcing the devil restored the lads to life through priests' intercession, arriving fainting and mud-daubed like nether-world messengers. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 8664-8866 | high | Animal worship entries include sacred animals in procession, animals as scapegoats, animals eaten to obtain qualities, respect for killed animals, belief in animal resurrection, and animals burnt as representatives of vegetation spirit. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 8868-9090 | medium | Entries include Beltane fires, Gardens of Adonis in Bengal, Berry corn-spirit and harvest custom, mock human sacrifices by Bhagats, diseases expelled to sea by Biajas of Borneo, birch-tree dressed in women’s clothes, trees planted at births, bison resurrection, and blood taboos and soul beliefs. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 9092-9315 | medium | Index entries mention belief in the resurrection of the buffalo, buffalo held sacred by the Todas, sacrifice of the sacred buzzard, sacrifice of the Cobra Capella, hunting the wren, and salmon-related practice among Columbia River Indians. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 9541-9755 | medium | The index lists resurrection in folk tales. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 9976-10195 | high | "Initiatory rites, simulation of death and resurrection at"; "Huskanaw, the name of an initiatory ceremony amongst the Indians of Virginia" | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | CHAPTER V / XVIII. / CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII; lines 3632-3650 | high | A tradition attributed to Mohammed says that on the day of resurrection the good slave will be taken to heaven and the wicked master sent to hell. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH / TAIN BO FRAICH / Part I / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 10095-10225 | medium | Fraech says, "this is the cry of my mother and of the women of Boand"; the women then bring him to the Sid of Cruachan, glossed as deep burial caverns at Cruachan. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE STORY OF OEDIPUS / THE THEBAID / THE EPIGONI / THE CYPRIA; lines 7708-7815 | high | Artemis snatches Iphigeneia away, transports her to the Tauri, makes her immortal, and places a stag on the altar in her place. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. / BOOK XV. / ARGUMENT. / THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.; lines 14562-14665 | medium | Hector asks which immortal wakes him from a sleep of death and says Ajax's blow almost sent him to the shades below; he still sees ghosts and hellish horrors. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24168-24311 | low | A cited passage describes a woman bruising a plant, preparing its juice, bathing a wound, stopping the blood, and reviving a youth. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 25331-25485 | medium | Achilles is said to be slain by Paris' arrow under Apollo's auspices; Thetis then removes his body before cremation and conveys it to renewed immortal life on Leuke. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA / THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR / THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER / THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO FLOWER; lines 4627-4745 | medium | In late autumn, ashes scattered on the garden trees make cherry trees, plum trees, and other flowering shrubs burst into bloom like spring. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 338-431 | high | Lemminkainen, chopped to pieces by the Sons of Mana and compared parenthetically with Osiris, is sought by his mother in the river of Tuoni; the Sun’s rays put Death-stream sprites to sleep, and the passage says the dead can be restored to life through heavenly light. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 519-595 | medium | Uni governs sleep, Untamo dreams, Munu the human eye, Lemmas wounds and pains, and Suonetar spins veins, sews tissues, and is associated with Lemminkainen's restoration to life. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | INTO ENGLISH / DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.; lines 72-152 | medium | The contents list headings for Lemminkainen’s lament, Kyllikki’s broken vow, Lemminkainen’s second wooing, death, and restoration. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7655-7840 | medium | The blood-stained son of death-land cuts Lemminkainen with a hatchet into five unequal portions, throws them to Tuoni, and commands him to remain in the river hunting water-birds. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7842-8032 | medium | Lemminkainen is recovered from Manala's lake and river, but many fragments are missing, including half the head, a hand, a fore-arm, other parts, and life; the mother says she will bring him to life with magic. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8034-8210 | high | The mother refuses to cast the dead into the waters, rakes the Tuonela river and Manala pools and caverns, finds body fragments, and reassembles Lemminkainen's flesh, bones, vessels, and veins. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8212-8383 | high | Lemminkainen's mother repeatedly anoints the speechless hero with Turi-balsam, balm of seven virtues, honey of Palwoinen, and wonder-working balsam, but the balm is ineffective and he remains speechless. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8385-8568 | high | The mother rocks the hero back to his former being, life, and spirit, and he becomes wiser and handsomer. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 10088-10219 | high | Unbelievers call the reciter enchanted and ask whether bones and dust can be raised as a new creation; the answer says the creator who made them first will bring them back and call them forth on a coming day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 10221-10351 | high | The punishment is for rejecting signs and asking whether bones and dust will become a new creation; God who created heavens and earth is able to create their like and has ordained a term. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 10648-10796 | high | Only God knows the unseen; others do not know when they will be raised, and unbelievers doubt resurrection after death and call the promise ancient fables. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 10798-10935 | high | The Inmates of the Cave and Al Rakim are presented as a wondrous sign; the youths enter the cave, pray for mercy and right order, and are struck with deafness in the cave for many years. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 10937-11068 | high | A day is described when mountains pass away, earth is leveled, mankind is gathered and set before the Lord in ranks, each receives a book, and the wicked fear its complete record. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11070-11217 | high | On that day they will dash like billows, a trumpet will be blown, all will be gathered, and Hell will be set before infidels whose eyes were veiled from warning. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11219-11354 | high | Deniers ask whether they will become a new creation after lying hidden in earth; the passage says they deny meeting their Lord and that the angel of death will cause them to die, then they will be returned to their Lord. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11356-11508 | high | The Book of the law is given to Moses as guidance for Israel; Imms are appointed to guide; the Lord will decide disputes on resurrection day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11510-11661 | high | "This the reward of the enemies of God,the Fire! it shall be their eternal abode" in requital for denying signs. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11510-11661 | high | The earth is seen "drooping," then when rain is sent down it is "stirred and swelleth"; the one who gives it life will give life to the dead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11663-11812 | high | God gives life, causes death, and will assemble people on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11814-11950 | high | Deniers call the revelation fables of the ancients and bear burdens on resurrection day; earlier plotters’ building is attacked at its foundation and collapses upon them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12080-12213 | high | God enjoins justice and good-doing, forbids wrong and oppression, commands faithfulness to the covenant and oaths, compares oath-breaking to unraveling spun thread, and says resurrection will clarify disputes and people will be called to account. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12215-12362 | high | The Sabbath was ordained for those who differed about it, and the Lord will decide between them on the day of resurrection concerning their disputes. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12364-12496 | high | “God bringth forth the creation then causeth it to return again then to Him shall ye come back.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12364-12496 | high | God brings the living out of the dead and the dead out of the living, quickens dead earth, and says the audience likewise shall be brought forth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12498-12640 | high | "after its death he quickeneth the earth" and "This same God will surely quicken the dead" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12899-13028 | high | Pharaoh will head his people on the day of Resurrection and cause them to descend into the Fire; they are followed by a curse in this world and on the day of Resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12899-13028 | high | The passage says the latter day is a day when mankind is gathered and witnessed by all creatures; it occurs at an appointed time, and no one speaks except by divine leave. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13162-13287 | high | All mankind comes forth before God; weak followers ask men of might to relieve some divine vengeance, but the leaders say there is no escape. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13162-13287 | high | Believers who do right are brought into “gardens beneath which the rivers flow” and their greeting there is “Peace.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13289-13435 | medium | God will not fail the promise to the Apostles; on a day when earth and heavens are changed, people come forth to God, the wicked are chained, clothed in pitch, and fire surrounds their faces so every soul is recompensed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13842-13974 | high | The infidels say: "Twice, O our Lord, hast thou given us death, and twice hast thou given us life" and ask if there is any escape. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13976-14113 | medium | A believer addresses his people, offers guidance, contrasts passing present life with abiding afterlife, states recompense, promises paradise to righteous believers, rejects denial of God and associated gods, and warns that transgressors are inmates of fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14253-14381 | high | Pharaoh and his hosts act proudly and unjustly, are seized and cast into the sea, and are linked with hell-fire, lack of help on the day of Resurrection, curse, and shame. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14383-14516 | high | The passage contrasts present-life enjoyment and pomp with what is with God, and mentions the day of Resurrection when one is brought up for punishment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14518-14658 | high | Those who lose their own souls and families on the day of resurrection are called the true losers and this is clear ruin. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14660-14794 | high | On the day of resurrection, evil-doers are told: "Taste what ye have earned." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14796-14940 | high | "There shall be a blast on the trumpet"; later there is another blast, and those who had expired arise and gaze around. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14942-15074 | high | People will bear burdens and be questioned on the day of Resurrection about false devices. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15076-15223 | high | "Hell shall be round about the infidels" and punishment shall wrap them from above and beneath their feet; God will say, "Taste ye your own doings." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15225-15349 | high | Human creation and quickening hereafter are said to be like those of a single individual; God hears and sees. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15351-15479 | high | An Arabic Koran is revealed so the prophet may warn the mother city and its surroundings of the Day of Gathering, when part will be in Paradise and part in the flame. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15481-15633 | high | Those God causes to err have no protector; unjust people see torment and ask about return, are set before it in shame, and are linked with loss on the day of Resurrection, lasting torment, no refuge, and no denial of works. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15635-15756 | high | "Unto Him shall ye return, all together"; God produces a creature, causes it to return, rewards believers, and assigns unbelievers boiling draught and torment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15635-15756 | medium | The passage asks who supplies from heaven and earth, has power over hearing and sight, brings living from dead and dead from living, and rules all things; the expected answer is God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15758-15890 | high | God, not the added gods, produces a creature and causes it to return to Him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15892-16024 | high | The children of Israel are given a settled abode and good things; after knowledge comes, they differ, and the Lord will decide between them on the day of Resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16026-16159 | high | Unbelievers deny the Hour and mock restoration after bodily destruction; the answer affirms the Hour, God's complete knowledge, reward for believers, punishment for opponents, and the truth of revelation. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16297-16428 | high | God sends winds that raise clouds and drives them to drought-dead land, giving life to the earth after its death; the passage adds, 'So shall be the resurrection.' | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16430-16570 | high | Eblis asks for respite until the day when mankind is raised from the dead, and he is told he is among the respited. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16572-16682 | high | They confess wrongdoing and seek forgiveness; they are sent down to earth to dwell for a season, live, die, and be taken forth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16684-16805 | high | God sends winds, clouds, and water to dead land, causing fruits to grow; the passage says this is how the dead will be brought forth, and contrasts rich soil with bad soil. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17322-17443 | medium | The note identifies rain and says the Rabbins call rain God's might and power and connect it with resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17445-17575 | high | The child says to his parents, "Fie on you both! Promise ye me that I shall be taken forth from the grave alive, when whole generations have already passed away before me?" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17577-17717 | high | God's creation of the heavens and earth is cited as proof of power to quicken the dead; unbelievers are set before the fire; the addressee is told to be patient like firm apostles. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17719-17848 | high | "He had imposed mercy on Himself as a law. He will surely assemble you on the Resurrection day" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17977-18094 | medium | God causes grain and the date stone to put forth and brings living from dead and dead from living. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18096-18218 | medium | A formerly dead person quickened and given light to walk among people is contrasted with one whose likeness is in darkness and who will not come forth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18471-18596 | high | Unbelievers marvelously ask whether, after becoming dust, they will be restored in a new creation; they are described with collars and as inmates of the fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18733-18863 | high | The passage asks how people can withhold faith when they were dead and God gave life, will cause death, restore life, and receive their return; God created all on earth and fashioned heaven into seven heavens. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18865-18984 | high | The people demand to see God plainly; a thunderbolt falls upon them, and afterward they are raised to life after having been dead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18865-18984 | high | Moses says God commands a cow sacrifice. The people ask for clarification; the cow is specified as middle-aged, bright fawn-coloured, sound, unblemished, and not used for ploughing or watering before they sacrifice it. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18986-19101 | high | A covenant forbids shedding one another's blood and expelling one another; the addressees are accused of killing, driving out, helping against their own people, and selective belief, with shame in life and severe torment on the day of Resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19103-19221 | high | Jews and Christians issue reciprocal claims against one another although both read the Book; God will judge between them on the resurrection day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19223-19345 | medium | “say not of those who are slain on God’s path that they are Dead; nay, they are Living!” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19347-19457 | high | Those who hide scriptures sent down by God and barter them for a small price swallow fire and face grievous torment on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19459-19571 | high | Present life is prepared for unbelievers who mock the faithful, while those who fear God are above them on the day of resurrection and God gives bounty without measure. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19679-19788 | high | "they were thousands—for fear of death... God said to them, 'Die:' then He restored them to life" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19790-19894 | high | A passerby at a ruined city questions its revival; God causes him to die one hundred years and raises him, showing preserved food and drink and the ass’s bones clothed with flesh. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19896-20006 | high | Usury-takers rise at resurrection like one touched by Satan; selling is allowed and usury forbidden; returning to usury after warning leads to the fire forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 20008-20136 | medium | A Talmudic report says Israelites who died after hearing the divine voice were restored by the intercession of the Law. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 2020-2251 | high | Man is created from poured-forth germs, and God is able to restore him to life on a day when secrets are searched out and he has no helper. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 20275-20431 | high | The passage affirms that deniers will be raised and told of their deeds, commands belief in God, the apostle, and sent-down light, describes the day of mutual gathering, and contrasts gardens with rivers for believers against fire for those who deny signs. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 20275-20431 | medium | Notes identify Nimrod, summarize Ozair or Esdras doubting Jerusalem's rebuilding after Nebuchadnezzar, say a miracle assured him, link the story to Nehemiah's circuit of the ruined city, and cross-reference Genesis 15:9. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21243-21364 | high | Jesus says he will heal the blind and leper, quicken the dead by God's leave, and tell people what they eat and store in houses. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21624-21745 | high | The Prophet will not defraud; whoever defrauds will come with it on the day of resurrection, every soul will be paid its merit, and the one under God's wrath has Hell as abode, with varying grades before God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21624-21745 | high | Those slain on God's path are not to be reputed dead; they are alive with their Lord, sustained, rejoicing in God's bounty, without fear or grief, and their reward does not perish. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21747-21849 | high | Those who are niggardly with God's bounty are warned that what they withheld will be their collar on the day of resurrection; the heritage of heavens and earth belongs to God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21851-21964 | high | The note says Muhammad probably believed that God took Jesus’s dead body to heaven while the Jews crucified a man who resembled him, and discusses Qur'anic wording about God causing to die or taking to himself. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 2254-2504 | high | God creates man from moist germs, fashions him, gives passage from the womb, causes death and burial, and raises him again when he pleases. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 2254-2504 | high | At the stunning trumpet-blast, people flee close kin; some faces are radiant and joyous, while others are dusty and blackened. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 22710-22813 | high | "He will certainly assemble you on the day of resurrection." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 22815-22934 | high | "who shall plead with God for them on the day of the resurrection?" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 22936-23059 | high | Hypocrites claim solidarity with whichever side succeeds; God will judge between them on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24209-24323 | high | On the day God raises all to life, He will tell them their deeds; God counted what they forgot and witnesses all things. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24325-24458 | high | God is called the Truth, the one who quickens the dead; the Hour will come, and God will wake those in tombs to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24584-24720 | high | “He it is who hath given you life, then will cause you to die, then will give you life” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24584-24720 | high | Every people has appointed observances; disputes are referred to God, who will judge on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24973-25111 | high | Kin and children will not avail on the day of resurrection; a severance will be made, and God beholds actions. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 2506-2739 | medium | The Cleaving: heaven cleaves, stars disperse, seas mingle, graves are overturned, souls recognize actions, guardians record deeds, the righteous are in delights, the impure in Hell-fire, and sovereignty belongs to God on the day of doom. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 26091-26201 | high | Infidels cannot ransom themselves from resurrection-day torment even with twice the earth's riches, and they wish to come forth from the Fire but cannot. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 26429-26545 | medium | God says he taught Jesus Scripture, Wisdom, Law, and Evangel; Jesus made a clay bird live, healed the blind and leper, brought forth the dead by God's leave, and was opposed by unbelievers who called the signs sorcery. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 2741-2973 | high | The passage invokes sunset redness, night, and the full moon; people are carried from state to state, glossed as life, death, grave, resurrection, and Paradise; unbelievers lie, while believers who do right receive unfailing recompense. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 2975-3208 | high | The day of severing assembles people and ancestors; the God-fearing are placed among shades, fountains, and desired fruits and are told to eat and drink in health as recompense. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3210-3455 | high | The Resurrection section says no oath is needed by the day of resurrection or the self-accusing soul, and asks whether man thinks his bones will not be reunited; even fingertips can be replaced. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3457-3676 | high | Woe is pronounced on those who stint measure; the passage asks whether they think they will be raised for the great day when mankind stands before the Lord of the worlds. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3678-3891 | medium | "They ask, 'When this day of judgment?' / On that day they shall be tormented at the fire." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3893-4118 | high | The people of the left hand are amid pestilential winds, scalding water, and black smoke; they had persisted in sin and questioned whether dust and bones and their ancestors would be raised. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4120-4331 | high | "Is it ye who create them? or are we their creator?" and death is decreed, yet the speaker is not hindered from replacing or producing humans again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4333-4512 | high | God is the term of all things, causes laughter, weeping, death, life, sexual creation, second creation, possession, and is Lord of Sirius; he destroyed ancient peoples and overturned cities; the warning day draws near and the audience is commanded to worship. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4514-4760 | high | “they shall flock up out of their graves in haste”; their eyes are downcast and disgrace covers them on the threatened day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4762-4955 | high | “The hour hath approached and the MOON hath been cleft”; rejecters call a miracle “well-devised magic.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4957-5183 | high | “When they are warned, no warning do they take”; they mock a sign as sorcery and ask whether, after becoming “dust and bones,” they shall be raised. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5185-5401 | medium | Jonas is an apostle who flees to a laden ship; lots are cast, he is doomed, and the fish swallows him because he is blameworthy. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5403-5596 | high | God forms humans, creates seven heavens, places moon and sun, makes humans spring from earth like a plant, returns them to earth and brings them forth anew, and spreads earth like a carpet with paths. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5598-5788 | high | Infidels say there is only a first death, deny being raised again, and demand that their ancestors be brought back. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5598-5788 | high | Death comes, a trumpet blast marks the threatened day, and every soul arrives with an angel urging it along and an angel witnessing against it. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5790-5982 | high | A crier will cry from a place near to all; people will hear the shout on the day of coming forth from the grave, and the earth will cleave open over the dead for gathering. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5984-6131 | high | The Lord spreads the earth, traces paths, sends rain, brings forth herbs for people and cattle, creates humans from earth, returns them into it, and brings them forth a second time. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6133-6277 | high | Those who turn aside carry a burden on the day of Resurrection; on that day a trumpet blast occurs and the wicked are gathered with leaden eyes. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6440-6654 | high | Abraham prays for wisdom, justice, a good name among posterity, inheritance of the garden, forgiveness for his father, and no shame when mankind is raised. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6881-7048 | high | The divine speaker causes life and death, is the heir of all things, knows earlier and later people, and the Lord will gather them together again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7050-7238 | high | Eblis refuses to bow to man created of clay and moulded loam; God tells him to depart as a stoned one and places a curse on him until the day of reckoning. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 722-779 | medium | The preface compares several scriptural passages and includes the last judgment, the dead hearing the Son of God's voice, and the exterminating or awakening cry of Gabriel. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7240-7394 | high | John is told to receive the Book; he is given wisdom as a child, mercy, purity, piety, dutifulness to parents, and peace on the day of birth, death, and being raised to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7396-7552 | high | Man questions whether he will be brought forth alive after death; God recalls making him from nothing, gathers people and Satans, sets them on their knees around Hell, identifies rebels, decrees descent to it, delivers the God-fearing, and leaves the wicked on their knees. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7554-7691 | high | All in heaven and earth approach as servants; God has numbered them exactly; “each of them shall come to Him, on the day of Resurrection, singly”; God grants love to believers who do right. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7860-8026 | medium | Eblis asks for respite until the day of Resurrection; God grants respite until the appointed time; Eblis vows to seduce all except sincere servants, and God declares Hell will be filled with Eblis and followers. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8028-8198 | high | God says the dead will be quickened, people’s works and traces will be written down, and everything is set in the clear Book of decrees. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8028-8198 | high | After warnings and refusal of signs and almsgiving, unbelievers ask when the promise will come; they await a single blast that assails them while they wrangle, preventing bequests or return to families. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8200-8362 | high | Man, created from moist germs of life, becomes a caviller and asks who will give life to rotten bones. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8200-8362 | high | The creator of heavens and earth made earth a couch, traced routes, sent rain, created sexual couples, and made ships and beasts for riding. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8518-8693 | high | The Djinn say God has neither spouse nor offspring, condemn false speech about God, mention humans seeking refuge with Djinn, and report the belief that God would not raise any from the dead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8695-8860 | high | Those who fear their Lord in secret receive pardon and reward. God knows hidden and open conversation and the inmost breasts; He made the earth level for humans to traverse and eat from, and unto Him is resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8862-9028 | high | Man is created from fine clay, placed as a moist germ in a safe abode, then formed as clot, flesh, bones, flesh clothed with flesh, and brought forth in another make. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9030-9193 | high | They ask whether, after becoming "dust and bones," they shall be waked to life, and call the promise "fables of the ancients." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9030-9193 | high | When the trumpet is sounded, kinship ties cease on that day and they do not ask each other's help. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9358-9506 | high | Just balances are set up for the day of resurrection; no soul is wronged, and even a mustard-seed weight of work is brought forth for reckoning. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9508-9648 | high | On that day heaven is rolled up like written scrolls; as the first creation was made, it will be brought forth again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9793-9936 | high | Unbelieving Meccans pass by “the city on which was rained a fatal rain” and are said to have no hope of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9938-10086 | high | Every person's fate is fastened about the neck; on resurrection a wide-open book is brought forth and the person is told to read the account. | record |
| Islamic | 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 10045-10130 | high | Present life is ordained for unbelievers, who laugh the faithful to scorn; those who fear God will be above them on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | 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 10328-10391 | high | A group who left their habitations from fear of death is described; “GOD said unto them, Die; then he restored them to life.” | record |
| Islamic | 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 10394-10454 | medium | After passing the river, some fear Jalut's forces, while those expecting to meet God at the resurrection say a small army often defeats a great one by God's will. | record |
| Islamic | 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 10457-10528 | high | A man passes a city destroyed to its foundations, asks how God will quicken it, is caused by God to die for one hundred years and raised; his food and drink are uncorrupted, and the ass's bones are raised and clothed with flesh. | record |
| Islamic | 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 | high | Abraham asks God to show how the dead will be raised; when asked whether he believes, he answers that he does but wants his heart to rest at ease. | record |
| Islamic | 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 10592-10646 | medium | Those who devour usury will rise from the dead like one touched by Satan; God permits selling and forbids usury; those who return to usury are companions of hell fire forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 10709-10808 | high | A prayer asks God not to let hearts swerve after guidance and to grant mercy; it affirms that God will gather mankind to a day of resurrection and will not break the promise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 10989-11080 | high | Jesus announces signs: making a bird-like clay figure and breathing on it so it becomes a bird by God’s permission; healing the blind from birth and the leper; raising the dead; and telling people what they eat and store. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11082-11146 | high | Jallalo'ddin lists Lazarus, the widow's son, and the publican's daughter as restored to life by Christ; another account adds Shem son of Noah, who emerges from his grave half grey-headed and then dies again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11221-11295 | medium | The note reports views that Jesus was taken up without dying, will die after returning before the last day, was lifted while asleep, died spiritually to worldly desires, or naturally died briefly, was restored to life, and taken up to heaven. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11298-11387 | high | Those who make merchandise of God's covenant and oaths for a small price will have no portion in the next life; God will not speak to, regard, or cleanse them on the day of resurrection, and they will suffer punishment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11470-11534 | high | On the day of resurrection, some faces become white and others black; black-faced returners to unbelief taste punishment, while white-faced ones remain forever in God's mercy. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11861-11926 | high | Those slain or dying in defense of God's religion receive pardon and mercy better than worldly riches and will be gathered unto God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11861-11926 | high | A prophet does not defraud; whoever defrauds brings the fraud on the day of resurrection, and every soul is paid what it has gained without injustice. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11929-12003 | medium | “those who have been slain at Ohod, in the cause of GOD” are not to be reckoned dead, but are “sustained alive with their LORD.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 12006-12093 | high | "That which they have covetously reserved shall be bound as a collar about their neck... on the day of the resurrection." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 12095-12178 | high | The note says one who conceals knowledge God has given will be given a bridle of fire on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 12095-12178 | high | Unbelievers' prosperous dealings are only slender provision and their receptacle is hell; those who fear the Lord have gardens through which rivers flow forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 12892-12958 | high | There is no God but God; God will gather people on the day of resurrection, and God's speech is true. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 13036-13127 | high | Angels put to death people who injured their souls, question their religion, reject the claim of weakness by invoking God's wide earth as refuge, and assign hell as their habitation and evil journey. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 13267-13364 | high | Believers are told to believe in God, his apostle, the book sent down to the apostle, former books, angels, scriptures, apostles, and the last day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 13367-13463 | high | Everyone among those who received scriptures will believe in Jesus before his death, and on the day of resurrection he will be a witness against them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 13704-13784 | high | Those who say they are Christians are said to have received a covenant, forgotten part of their admonition, and to experience enmity and hatred until resurrection, when God declares their deeds. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 13840-13919 | high | Unbelievers cannot redeem themselves from punishment on the day of resurrection, even with the earth’s wealth doubled; they desire to leave the fire but cannot, and punishment is permanent. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 14467-14563 | high | Jesus creates a bird-like figure from clay, breathes on it, and it becomes a bird by God’s permission; he heals one blind from birth and the leper and brings forth the dead from graves by God’s permission. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 14566-14638 | medium | Sale's note says Jesus restored the fish to life; 1,300 afflicted or poor people ate and were satisfied, were delivered from misfortunes, and the table rose to heaven and descended for forty days. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 14641-14704 | high | Whatever is in heaven and earth belongs to God; he has prescribed mercy to himself and will gather people on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 14707-14802 | high | On the day of resurrection all are assembled; those who associated others with God are asked where their imagined companions are; they deny idolatry, and the imagined deities flee or prove unreal according to the note. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 14804-14902 | high | “GOD will raise the dead; then unto him shall they return.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 14963-15045 | medium | The passage commands resignation to the Lord of all creatures, observance of prayer times, fear of God, and says people will be assembled before him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15289-15383 | medium | "though we had sent down angels unto them, and the dead had spoken unto them ... they would not have believed, unless GOD had so pleased" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15386-15454 | medium | A person “dead” is “restored unto life” and given “a light” to walk among men, contrasted with one whose similitude is darkness from which he will not come forth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15718-15805 | high | Adam and his wife confess injustice and ask mercy; God tells them to get down to earth, where they will live, die, and be raised, and then addresses the children of Adam about apparel and the clothing of piety. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15807-15884 | high | Commentators suppose the devil's reprieve is not fully granted and that he will die with other creatures at the second sound of the trumpet. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15886-15961 | high | "God shall say unto them at the resurrection, Enter ye with the nations which have preceded you, of genii and of men, into hell fire; so often as one nation shall enter, it shall curse its sister" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15964-16056 | high | The passage commands humble prayer and avoidance of corruption; God sends winds before mercy until rain-clouds are driven to dead country, water descends, fruits spring forth, and this is likened to bringing the dead from graves. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 16855-16924 | high | The Lord draws forth the posterity of the sons of Adam and asks whether he is their Lord; they answer that they bear witness, so they cannot claim ignorance at resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1726-1776 | high | Others believed in resurrection and tied a camel by a sepulchre, leaving it to perish and accompany the dead to the other world so the deceased would not go on foot at the resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 17338-17403 | medium | A note says some infidels demanded that Mohammed raise Kosai, one of his ancestors, to life as a witness to the truth of his mission, but that this would have been in vain. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX.; lines 18037-18105 | medium | Commentators explain the charge by saying some Jews held that Ezra, raised to life after one hundred years dead, dictated the law anew from memory and was therefore called the son of God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1831-1877 | medium | After demands that Jesus appear from heaven, a storm occurs and Jesus appears in the air with rays of glory, a purple cloud, sword, and diadem; he says, 'Behold I appear to you in your sight,' and the cloud receives him from view. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19014-19078 | high | “On the day of the resurrection we will gather them altogether”; idolaters and their companions are told to go to their place and are separated. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19014-19078 | medium | The passage asks who provides from heaven and earth, controls hearing and sight, brings living from dead and dead from living, and governs all things; the answer is God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19081-19143 | medium | On a certain day God gathers them as if they had tarried only a short time; they know one another, and those denying the meeting of God perish. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19369-19466 | high | The passage states that people will be raised after death; unbelievers call this manifest sorcery, and delayed punishment is said to come on an unavoidable day that will encompass scoffers. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19743-19816 | medium | When the divine sentence comes, Hud and the believers with him are delivered by mercy from grievous punishment; Ad are described as rejecting signs, disobeying messengers, and being followed by a curse in this world and on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19918-20001 | high | Moses was sent with signs to Pharaoh and his princes; they followed Pharaoh, who will lead them into hell fire on the day of resurrection and is followed by a curse. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20907-20995 | high | The infidels question restoration after being reduced to dust; those who do not believe in their Lord are said to have collars on their necks and to abide in hell fire forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20997-21074 | high | God gives provision abundantly or sparingly; infidels demand a sign; God leads into error whom he pleases and guides repentant believers, whose hearts rest in the meditation of God and who receive blessedness and a happy resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21077-21165 | low | “mountains should be removed,” “the earth cleaved in sunder,” and “the dead be caused to speak”; the matter belongs wholly to God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21375-21468 | high | God will keep his promise to assist his apostles; the day will come when earth and heavens are changed and people come forth from their graves before the only, mighty God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21470-21482 | high | The note explains a phrase as meaning either not tasting death and continuing forever in this world, or not being raised to judgment after death. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21485-21588 | high | God holds storehouses, distributes by measure, sends winds and water from heaven for drinking, gives life and death, and will gather people at the last day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21763-21861 | high | God creates the heavens and earth, and creates man from seed; man is described as a disputer against resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21863-21948 | high | On the day of resurrection God covers unbelievers with shame; angels cause the unjust to die, reject their denial of evil, and the unjust are told to enter the gates of hell forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21951-22019 | high | God will raise people to show the truth concerning their disagreements and so unbelievers know they are liars. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22022-22106 | high | “GOD sendeth down water from heaven, and causeth the earth to revive after it hath been dead,” presented as “a sign of the resurrection.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22191-22273 | high | The hearers are told not to be like a woman who untwists what she has spun strongly, using oaths deceitfully; God will manifest disputed matters on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22430-22511 | high | A day is described when every soul pleads for itself and is repaid for what it has done without injustice. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22594-22671 | high | Every person’s fate is bound about the neck; on the day of resurrection an open book of recorded actions is produced, and angels tell the person to read it as self-accounting. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22770-22861 | high | The ungodly call the addressee a madman and ask whether, after becoming bones and dust, they will be raised as a new creature. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22863-22955 | high | Commentary says the dead will immediately rise at God's call, shake dust from their heads, and praise God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II.; lines 2301-2352 | high | Arabia is described as famous for heresies; some Christians there believed the soul died with the body and would be raised with it at the last day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23058-23140 | high | The punishment is for disbelief in signs and denial that bones and dust can be raised; the passage argues that the creator of heavens and earth can create bodies like the present ones. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23142-23202 | high | After Pharaoh’s destruction, the children of Israel are told to dwell in the land, and the promise of the next life will bring both groups to judgment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23142-23202 | medium | A note explains renewed force to hellfire by giving new bodies to the damned; another note glosses the term as life or resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23300-23386 | high | Their people are made aware of what happened so they may know God's promise is true and the last hour is certain; people dispute and propose a building or chapel over them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23388-23472 | high | The long sleep of the young men and their waking after many years are described as representing those who die and are afterwards raised to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23474-23556 | high | On a certain day the mountains pass away, the earth appears plain and even, and all mankind is gathered with none left behind. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23559-23627 | medium | The note says Moses forgot to inquire and Joshua forgot to tell; it reports that the roasted fish leaped from the basket into the sea, and that water from the fountain of life restored it to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23810-23866 | high | On that day some press like waves on others; the trumpet is sounded; they are gathered together; hell is set before unbelievers. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23869-23958 | medium | John is told to receive the book of the law, receives wisdom as a child, and is described as merciful, pure, devout, dutiful to his parents, not rebellious, and under peace at birth, death, and being raised to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23960-24044 | medium | The child says he is God’s servant, has received the gospel, is appointed a prophet, is commanded to pray and give alms, is dutiful to his mother, and will have peace at birth, death, and being raised to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24046-24144 | medium | Edris is remembered as a just person and prophet, and God exalts him to a high place. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24146-24213 | high | Man asks whether, after death, he will be brought alive from the grave; the response asks whether man remembers being created before, when he was nothing. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24216-24303 | high | "we will assemble the pious before the Merciful in an honourable manner" and "drive the wicked into hell, as cattle are driven to water" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24464-24562 | high | God spreads the earth, makes paths, sends rain, produces vegetation, feeds humans and cattle, creates from ground, returns humans to it, and brings them forth again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24565-24635 | high | The passage states that criminals appearing before the Lord on the day of judgment receive hell and neither die nor live there, while righteous believers receive high happiness in perpetual gardens watered by rivers. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24638-24735 | high | Mohammed is told that former relations and an admonition have been recited; whoever turns aside will carry a load of guilt on the day of resurrection as a grievous burden. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24737-24829 | high | God commands all to get down, says they will be enemies to one another, promises future direction, and states that followers will not err while those turning aside will live miserably and be raised blind on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24832-24882 | high | If people had been destroyed by judgment before revelation, they would have complained at the resurrection that no apostle had been sent so they could follow the signs before humiliation. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24981-25067 | high | No one before the addressed prophet has been granted eternal worldly permanence; every soul tastes death, is tested with evil and good, and returns to God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25309-25406 | high | On that day the heavens are rolled up like a book of deeds, and creation is reproduced at the resurrection as a divine promise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25408-25434 | high | The note says the relevant time is until the resurrection and that one sign of its approach will be the eruption of those barbarians. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25437-25520 | high | Humans are created from dust, seed, coagulated blood, and flesh; placed in wombs until delivery; brought forth as infants; then reach strength, die young, or reach decrepit age. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25815-25887 | high | God gives life, causes death, raises people again at resurrection, knows deeds and all in heaven and earth, judges disputes on the day of resurrection, and has this written in the book of decrees. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25890-26000 | high | Man is created from fine clay and through successive bodily stages, will die, and will be restored to life on the day of resurrection; seven heavens are created above. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26071-26174 | high | God creates hearing, sight, and hearts, produces humans in the earth, gives life and death, governs night and day; unbelievers ask whether dust and bones will really be raised to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26176-26233 | high | Sale's note explains barzakh as a partition or interstice and says it can refer to the place, time, or state of the dead, the interval between this world and the next or between death and resurrection, the grave, or an obstacle preventing return after death; it also compares the term to Greek Hades. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXV. / ENTITLED, AL FORKAN; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26803-26899 | high | Other gods are said to create nothing, to be created, and to lack power over harm, benefit, death, life, and raising the dead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXV. / ENTITLED, AL FORKAN; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26901-26959 | high | The Koreish frequently pass near a city rained on by a fatal rain, yet do not dread resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXV. / ENTITLED, AL FORKAN; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 27059-27127 | high | The wrongdoer's punishment is doubled on the day of resurrection and endured forever with ignominy. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, AL FORKAN; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 27231-27318 | high | Abraham describes the Lord as the one who created and directs him, gives him food and drink, heals him, causes him to die, restores him to life, and forgives sins on judgment day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 27921-28007 | high | God produces a creature, restores it to life after death, and gives food from heaven and earth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 27921-28007 | high | The Lord will decide controversy by a definitive sentence; the addressee is told to trust God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28271-28369 | high | Pharaoh's side is made deceitful guides inviting followers to hell fire, pursued by a curse, rejected at resurrection, and the law is given to Moses as enlightenment, direction, and mercy. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28542-28629 | high | Man is commanded to show kindness to parents, but not to obey them if they urge association with God without knowledge; all return to God, and righteous believers are introduced into paradise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28542-28629 | medium | The passage says God produces creatures and restores or reproduces them, punishes and has mercy as he pleases, brings people to judgment, and that no one escapes in earth or heaven. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28631-28720 | high | Abraham's people say, "Slay him, or burn him," but God saves him from the fire; Abraham says idols cement affection in this life and that on the day of resurrection the people will deny and curse one another and dwell in hell fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28723-28821 | high | Believing servants are told God's earth is spacious; every soul tastes death and returns to God; righteous believers are lodged forever in higher apartments of paradise with rivers beneath. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28917-28982 | high | God produceth creatures, and will hereafter restore them to life: then shall ye return unto him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28985-29042 | high | Heaven and earth stand firm at command; when God calls people "out of the earth at one summons," they will come forth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 29045-29132 | high | God created, provides food, will cause death, and will raise people again to life; false gods cannot do the least of these things. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 29045-29132 | high | God sends winds with tidings of rain, ships sail at his command, clouds are raised and spread, rain issues from them, people rejoice after despair, and the revived earth after death shows that God will raise the dead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 29252-29335 | high | Creation and resuscitation are said to be like the creation and resuscitation of one soul; God hears and sees. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 29338-29435 | high | Deniers question being raised after lying hidden in the earth; the angel of death causes death; people are brought back to their Lord. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 29438-29487 | high | The law is delivered to Moses as direction for the children of Israel; teachers are appointed; the Lord will judge on the day of resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30090-30134 | low | Other explanations identify the injury as Karn's accusation or suspicion over Aaron's death; Moses is vindicated by angels bringing Aaron's body to view or by Aaron being raised to life to testify. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30137-30241 | high | Unbelievers ask whether a man will prophesy that after total dispersion they will be raised as a new creature, and they accuse him of forging a lie or being distracted. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30481-30579 | high | God sends winds and a cloud to a dead country and thereby quickens the dead earth; "so shall the resurrection be." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVI. / ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30683-30751 | high | “Verily we will restore the dead to life, and will write down their works... and everything do we set down in a plain register.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVI. / ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30754-30821 | medium | The commentary recounts Peter’s examination of the apostles, miracles of healing and raising a dead lad, Peter’s demolition of idols, conversions, and destruction of unbelievers by Gabriel’s cry. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVI. / ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30824-30891 | high | "One sign of the resurrection unto them is the dead earth... we quicken the same by the rain, and produce thereout various sorts of grain". | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVI. / ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30894-30975 | high | "Alas for us! who hath awakened us from our bed? ... what the Merciful promised us; and his apostles spoke the truth." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVI. / ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30894-30975 | high | A comparison is proposed asking who will restore rotten bones to life; the answer says the one who produced them first will restore them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30978-31092 | high | The warned people mock signs as sorcery and ask whether they and their forefathers will be raised after death, dust, and bones. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31215-31300 | medium | The passage says that if Jonas had not praised God, he would have stayed in the fish’s belly until the day of resurrection; he is cast sick onto a naked shore, a gourd plant grows over him, and he is sent to a very large people who believe. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVIII. / ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31690-31726 | high | Eblis asks the Lord for respite until the day of resurrection, and God says he will be among those respited until the determined time. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31729-31833 | high | Those who lose themselves and their families on the day of resurrection suffer manifest loss; over them are roofs of fire and under them floors of fire, by which God terrifies his servants. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31836-31890 | high | The passage asks about one obliged to screen himself with his face from punishment on the day of resurrection and says the ungodly will be told to taste what they deserved. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31893-31952 | high | God is invoked as creator and knower who judges between servants; unjust persons would ransom themselves from punishment on the day of resurrection, but unforeseen terrors and the evils they earned encompass them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31955-32047 | high | The trumpet is sounded; beings in heaven and earth expire except those God exempts. It is sounded again and they arise and look up. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32049-32073 | medium | Al Beidwi identifies the blast as the first and supposes two blasts only, while others suppose three. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32076-32134 | high | At judgment, unbelievers hear a condemning voice, state that God has given them death twice and life twice, confess sins, ask for a way out of the fire, and are told that this followed from their rejection of one God and that judgment belongs to God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32137-32197 | high | On the day of meeting, people “shall come forth out of their graves,” nothing is hidden from God, and the kingdom belongs to God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32325-32398 | medium | “It is he who giveth life, and causeth to die: and when he decreeth a thing, he only saith unto it, Be, and it is.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32401-32508 | medium | The skins answer that God caused them to speak, God gives speech to all things, created people the first time, and to him they are returned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32511-32573 | high | Waste land is stirred and ferments when rain is sent down; the one who quickens earth will surely quicken the dead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32511-32573 | high | Waste land is stirred and ferments when rain is sent down; the one who quickens earth will surely quicken the dead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32576-32633 | high | Man asks for good, despairs under evil, claims mercy after affliction as deserved, doubts the hour, expects an excellent condition before the Lord, but unbelievers will be told their deeds and made to taste severe punishment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32636-32735 | medium | God is the only true patron, quickens the dead, and decides matters of disagreement. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32737-32811 | medium | The creation of heaven, earth, and living creatures is a sign; God can gather them before his tribunal whenever he pleases. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32814-32849 | high | True believers say the losers are those who lost their souls and families on the day of resurrection, and the ungodly continue in eternal torment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32852-32936 | high | God sends “rain from heaven by measure,” quickens “a dead country,” and “so shall ye be brought forth from your graves.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33210-33306 | medium | The Meccans deny resurrection after first death and demand their forefathers; the text asks whether they are better than the people of Tobba and earlier peoples destroyed for wickedness, and says creation was made in truth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33309-33405 | high | The children of Israel are given law, wisdom, prophecy, good things, and ordinances; after later variance, God will decide their controversy on resurrection day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33436-33526 | high | Those invoked besides God cannot answer until the day of resurrection and do not regard the calls made to them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33529-33618 | high | A son says to his parents, in effect, that resurrection from the grave after many generations is unbelievable and calls it ancient fables; the parents ask God's help and urge him to believe God's promise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER L. / ENTITLED, K; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34187-34273 | high | Unbelievers wonder at a preacher, deny the plausibility of return to life after death and dust, while the divine speaker says the earth's consumption of them is known and kept in an account book. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER L. / ENTITLED, K; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34187-34273 | high | Heaven is raised and adorned; earth is spread with rooted mountains and vegetation; rain from heaven produces gardens, grain, and palms, quickening a dead country as a sign of the dead coming forth from graves. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER L. / ENTITLED, K; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34275-34337 | high | “the crier shall call men to judgment from a near place”; the next lines describe hearing the trumpet and the day of men coming forth from graves. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LIII. / ENTITLED, THE STAR; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34723-34758 | high | The Lord is the end of all things; causes laughter and weeping; gives death and life; creates male and female from emitted seed; raises the dead hereafter; gives wealth and possessions; and is Lord of the dog-star. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LIV. / ENTITLED, THE MOON; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34760-34864 | high | The summoner calls mankind; they come from graves with downcast looks, numerous as scattered locusts, and hasten in terror, while unbelievers call it a day of distress. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE MOON; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35049-35102 | medium | A note says crimes will be known by marks; people are raised to life and led toward the tribunal before examination. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVI. / ENTITLED, THE INEVITABLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35218-35320 | high | Some ask whether they and their forefathers will be raised after death, dust, and bones; the reply says the first and last will be gathered to judgment at a known day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE INEVITABLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35323-35422 | medium | God quickens the earth after it has been dead; the passage says the signs have been distinctly declared; almsgivers and those who lend God an acceptable loan will have it doubled and receive honorable reward. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER LVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35495-35590 | high | “GOD shall raise them all to life” and “hath taken an exact account” of what they have done. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER LVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35592-35638 | high | On a certain day God will raise them all, and they will swear to him as they swear now, imagining it will serve them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER LIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35818-35898 | high | If the enemies prevail, they will act against the believers and desire their unbelief; kindred and children will not avail on the day of resurrection, which separates people from one another. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER LIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35900-35947 | high | "O true believers, enter not into friendship with a people against whom GOD is incensed"; they despair of the life to come as infidels despair of resurrection from graves. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE HYPOCRITES; REVEALED AT MEDINA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXIV / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36178-36249 | high | Unbelievers imagine they will not be raised again; the prophet is told to say that they will surely be raised and told what they have wrought. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, PROHIBITION; REVEALED AT MEDINA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36511-36589 | high | God levels the earth for walking and provision; to him is resurrection; he may cause the earth to swallow people or send an overwhelming whirlwind. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III; lines 3665-3714 | medium | "When thou appearest before thy LORD on the day of resurrection, say, O LORD, al Wald has torn me thus." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXIX. / ENTITLED, THE INFALLIBLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36754-36875 | medium | The note explains that al Hkkat is an epithet of the day of judgment and says it verifies resurrection, account, rewards, and punishments. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXX. / ENTITLED, THE STEPS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36878-36974 | high | The threatened day is described as one when they come forth hastily from graves as troops hasten to a standard, with downcast looks and ignominy. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXI. / ENTITLED, NOAH; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36977-37065 | high | Noah invokes God's creation of seven heavens, the moon and sun, human springing from earth, return into earth, future emergence from graves, and the earth spread for paths. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 3717-3792 | high | The passage gives the confession: "there is no god but the true GOD; and that Mohammed is his apostle," and lists belief in God, angels, scriptures, prophets, resurrection and day of judgment, and God's decree. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXV. / ENTITLED, THE RESURRECTION; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37424-37503 | high | The chapter is entitled The Resurrection and opens with an oath by the day of resurrection and the self-accusing soul. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXV. / ENTITLED, THE RESURRECTION; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37424-37503 | high | Man is described as a drop of emitted seed, then coagulated blood; God forms and proportions him and makes male and female. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE RESURRECTION; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37597-37624 | medium | A note says they shall not need the light of either; another interpretation says paradise has no excess of heat or cold. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXVII. / ENTITLED, THOSE WHICH ARE SENT; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37627-37713 | medium | The earth is made to contain the living and the dead; stable lofty mountains are placed in it, and fresh water is given to drink. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXVIII. / ENTITLED, THE NEWS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37716-37782 | high | Unbelievers ask one another about the great news of resurrection, disagree concerning it, and are told they will later know its truth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXIX. / ENTITLED, THOSE WHO TEAR FORTH; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37784-37866 | high | Infidels ask whether they will return after becoming rotten bones; the passage answers that one trumpet sounding will make them appear alive on the face of the earth or at the judgment place. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXIX. / ENTITLED, THOSE WHO TEAR FORTH; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37784-37866 | medium | Infidels ask whether they will return after becoming rotten bones; the passage answers that one trumpet sounding will make them appear alive on the face of the earth or at the judgment place. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXX. / ENTITLED, HE FROWNED; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37868-37940 | high | God creates man from a drop of seed, forms him, facilitates birth, causes death and burial, and later raises him to life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXI. / ENTITLED, THE FOLDING UP; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37942-37996 | high | Souls are joined again to bodies; the buried-alive girl is asked why she was killed; books are opened; heaven is removed; hell burns; paradise is brought near; "every soul shall know what it hath wrought." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 3795-3850 | high | The four eminent angels are Gabriel, linked with revelation and divine decrees; Michael, protector of the Jews; Azral, angel of death separating souls from bodies; and Israfil, who sounds the trumpet at the resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXII. / ENTITLED, THE CLEAVING IN SUNDER; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37999-38042 | medium | Heaven is cloven in sunder, stars are scattered, seas join their waters, and graves are turned upside down. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXIII. / ENTITLED, THOSE WHO GIVE SHORT MEASURE OR WEIGHT; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38045-38130 | high | The passage asks whether such people think they will be raised again on the great day when mankind stands before the Lord of all creatures. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THOSE WHO GIVE SHORT MEASURE OR WEIGHT; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38132-38188 | high | The hearers will be transferred successively from state to state; Sale glosses this as from living to dead, and from dead to new life in another world. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXV. / ENTITLED, THE CELESTIAL SIGNS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38191-38267 | high | God's vengeance is severe; he creates, restores to life, forgives, possesses the glorious throne, does what he pleases, and the passage invokes the hosts of Pharaoh and Thamud. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXVI. / ENTITLED, THE STAR WHICH APPEARED BY NIGHT; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38270-38295 | high | A man is told to consider his creation from seed poured forth, issuing from the loins and breastbones. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XCIX. / ENTITLED, THE EARTHQUAKE; WHERE IT WAS REVEALED IS DISPUTED. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38927-38963 | medium | Sale's note glosses the earth's burdens as the treasures and dead bodies within it. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER C. / ENTITLED, THE WAR-HORSES WHICH RUN SWIFTLY; WHERE IT WAS REVEALED IS DISPUTED. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38966-38988 | high | “when that which is in the graves shall be taken forth” and “that which is in men's breasts shall be brought to light” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39526-39627 | high | Abraham is indexed as patriarch; former idolater; demolisher of Chaldean idols; preacher; disputant with Nimrod; survivor of Nimrod's fire; seeker of conviction about resurrection; sacrificer of birds and of his son; host of angels; recipient of Isaac's promise; friend of God; builder and cleanser of the Caaba with Ismael. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 3957-4008 | high | The passage names belief in a general resurrection and future judgment as an article of faith and introduces the intermediate state of body and soul after death. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39628-39754 | high | "Cain and Abel, their sacrifices"; "Cain kills his brother"; "instructed by a raven to bury him"; "Cow ordered to be sacrificed"; "Dead body raised to life by a part of the sacrificed Cow". | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39757-39845 | high | Ezekiel raises dry bones. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39757-39845 | high | Ezra and his ass are restored to life after being dead a hundred years; Ezra is also said to be called by the Jews the son of God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39927-39986 | medium | Jesus is promised to Mary, miraculously born, compared to Adam, speaks in infancy, performs miracles, is rejected, escapes the plotted death or crucifixion, is not God but an apostle and Word of God, and will descend before resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39927-39986 | medium | Jesus is promised to Mary, miraculously born, compared to Adam, speaks in infancy, performs miracles, is rejected, escapes the plotted death or crucifixion, is not God but an apostle and Word of God, and will descend before resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39988-40053 | high | "Lazarus raised" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40056-40155 | medium | “Martyrs, not dead but living” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4011-4062 | medium | A corpse is pressed into the earth and gnawed or stung until resurrection by ninety-nine seven-headed dragons, or sins become venomous beasts such as dragons, scorpions, and serpents; some understand this figuratively. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40156-40260 | high | Obba Ebn Khalf disputes against resurrection, wagers with Abu Becr, and is wounded by Mohammed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40263-40374 | high | Resurrection is asserted and described; signs of its approach are noted; its time is known to God alone. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40263-40374 | high | Seventy Israelites demand to see God, are killed by lightning, and are restored to life at Moses' prayer. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40377-40474 | high | God's throne is listed and said to be borne by eight angels on the day of judgment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4065-4117 | high | The passage contrasts spiritual resurrection, corporeal resurrection, and the received opinion that both body and soul will be raised. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4065-4117 | medium | Muhammad is said to have taught that the body is consumed except al Ajb, the os coccygis, which remains as a seed until a forty days' rain from God covers the earth and causes bodies to sprout like plants. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4172-4219 | medium | Gog and Magog pass the lake of Tiberias, drink it dry, distress Jesus and companions at Jerusalem, are destroyed by God, removed by birds, leave weapons burned for seven years, and are followed by cleansing, fertilizing rain. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4222-4265 | high | Signs listed include the Euphrates revealing gold and silver, demolition of the Caaba by Ethiopians, speaking beasts and inanimate things, fire in Hejz or Yaman, a descendant of Kahtan driving men with a staff, and the coming of the Mohdi. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4222-4265 | high | A wind removes the souls of those with faith, and the first trumpet blast, called the blast of consternation, terrifies all creatures in heaven and earth except those God exempts. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4268-4319 | high | A second blast, called the blast of examination, brings death or annihilation to all creatures in heaven and earth except those God exempts; only God and certain eschatological realities survive, and the angel of death dies last. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4268-4319 | high | Forty years later the blast of resurrection is sounded by Israfil, who with Gabriel and Michael is restored to life and stands on the rock of the temple of Jerusalem to call together dispersed bodily remains for judgment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4268-4319 | high | A forty-year rain, supplied from living water under God's throne, prepares resurrection bodies; the dead spring from graves like womb-formed bodies or corn sprouting by rain, then receive breath and await the last trumpet. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4268-4319 | high | A second blast, called the blast of examination, brings death or annihilation to all creatures in heaven and earth except those God exempts; only God and certain eschatological realities survive, and the angel of death dies last. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4322-4370 | high | The passage states that the received opinion is that resurrection will be general and extend to angels, genii, men, and animals. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4373-4424 | high | The resurrection is for beings to account for their actions and receive reward; mankind, genii, and irrational animals are said to be judged, and unarmed cattle take vengeance on horned cattle until satisfaction is given. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4427-4474 | high | After a limited waiting time, God appears to judge; Muhammad intercedes after Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Jesus decline; God comes in clouds surrounded by angels. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4477-4528 | medium | The resuscitated wait before trial, but the trial is said to last only as long as milking an ewe, between two milkings of a she-camel, half a day, or less than an eye-twinkling. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4637-4690 | medium | Traditions describe sinful believers being scorched and later admitted into paradise; another version says they sleep or are deprived of life in hell, then revive in paradise after washing with the water of life. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4693-4744 | high | Believers are detained in punishment for a long time, distinguished by prostration marks untouched by fire, relieved by God’s mercy and intercession, restored to life if dead, and washed in the river of life in paradise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4693-4744 | medium | Believers are detained in punishment for a long time, distinguished by prostration marks untouched by fire, relieved by God’s mercy and intercession, restored to life if dead, and washed in the river of life in paradise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4900-4946 | high | An objection about eating and evacuation is answered by saying that inhabitants of paradise do not need to evacuate; superfluities pass off as musk-scented perspiration and appetite returns. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5003-5059 | high | The Saviour speaks of the blessed future as a kingdom where they eat and drink at his table; the resurrection saying states they will neither marry nor be given in marriage but will be like angels of God in heaven. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5062-5114 | medium | An old woman asks Mohammed to intercede with God for her admission into paradise; he says no old woman will enter, then explains that God will make her young again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 7540-7593 | medium | The Hyetians, named from Ahmed Ebn Hyet, are reported as teaching that Christ is the eternal Word incarnate and future judge, that there are two gods or creators, that souls transmigrate, and that God is seen at resurrection by understanding. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 7596-7645 | high | The Thamamians follow Thamma Ebn Bashar and teach eternal hell for sinners, no producing author for free actions, and reduction of specified unbelieving groups to dust at the resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | OF THE / SECTIONS OF THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN.; lines 795-897 | medium | Chapter 75 is entitled “The Resurrection.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 8043-8098 | high | Morgians are said to defer judgment of a true believer guilty of grievous sin until resurrection, pass no worldly sentence, and hold that disobedience with faith does not hurt while obedience with infidelity does not profit. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 8413-8461 | medium | As his faction grows, the Khalf sends an army; al Mokanna retires into a fortress and sends emissaries to claim that he raises the dead and knows future events. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 8515-8561 | medium | Mahmd Ebn Faraj is said to have pretended to be Moses resuscitated, gained believers, was sentenced by al Motawakkel to blows from his followers and death, and had his disciples imprisoned. | record |
| Islamic | 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 8766-8859 | high | The passage asks how people do not believe in God, since they were dead and he gave life; he will cause death, restore life again, and they will return to him. | record |
| Islamic | 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 8861-8933 | high | A note explains death and life as nonlife before birth, life in the womb, death, and being raised again at the resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | 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 8935-9023 | high | The people say they will not believe Moses until they see God manifestly; punishment comes while they look on, and then they are raised to life after having been dead. | record |
| Islamic | 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 9025-9084 | high | Seventy men chosen by Moses heard God's voice, demanded to see God, were struck dead by lightning, and were restored to life on Moses's intercession. | record |
| Islamic | 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 9159-9242 | high | After a man is slain and disputed over, God reveals what was concealed; the people are told to strike the dead body with part of the sacrificed cow, and God raises the dead to life. | record |
| Islamic | 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 9244-9320 | high | Hammiel is killed by a relation; after accusations before Moses lack evidence, God commands a marked cow to be killed, the orphan's heifer is bought for much gold, sacrificed, and the dead body revives after being struck with part of it to name the killer before dying again. | record |
| Islamic | 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 9244-9320 | high | The passage condemns illiterate or corrupt handlers of the law who write and sell false claims as from God, rejects claims that hell fire lasts only a limited number of days, and contrasts eternal hell for evil-doers with eternal paradise for believers who do good works. | record |
| Islamic | 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 9486-9548 | high | Whoever resigns himself to God and does right will have reward with the Lord and will have no fear or grief. | record |
| Islamic | 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 9675-9772 | medium | “And say not of those who are slain in fight for the religion of GOD, that they are dead; yea, they are living.” | record |
| Islamic | 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 9774-9860 | high | Those who were followed separate from their followers at punishment; relational cords are cut; followers wish to return to life; they do not come forth from hellfire. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC; lines 2073-2161 | high | At the Palace of the Sons of the King of the Tortures, corpses arrive on saddled horses; a woman anoints a corpse in warm water, places precious balsam on it, and the man rises alive; two others are treated the same way. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN; lines 3759-3843 | medium | Geraint returns to Enid, falls lifeless from his horse, and Enid utters a piercing, loud cry over him. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY; lines 5642-5723 | medium | A youth from a large speckled yellow tent topped by a golden eagle carries a lance with a banner; he reports that most Ravens are killed and the rest badly wounded; Owain tells him to raise the banner at the thickest fighting. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6579-6664 | high | Bendigeid Vran gives Matholwch a cauldron: “if one of thy men be slain to-day, and be cast therein, to-morrow he will be as well as ever he was at the best, except that he will not regain his speech.” | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6843-6935 | high | "they cast the dead bodies into the cauldron ... they came forth fighting-men ... except that they were not able to speak." | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK IV / DYUTA / BOOK V / PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA; lines 2712-2852 | high | Savitri keeps following; Yama asks her wish; she asks that the royal line continue through Satyavan's and Savitri's sons; Yama grants that Satyavan shall live again and their children shall reign. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 10190-10284 | high | The post elects what will not decay and is buried like a corpse in hopes of resurrection at the judgment day; the poet draws a lesson about breaking with earthly things after the Lord’s call. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 11233-11329 | high | Seeming pleasures may be sweet but poisonous; some detect them by smell, others by taste or suffering, and some penalties arrive in the tomb or at resurrection's trumpet. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 12368-12473 | high | The passage says God can make a camel pass the needle’s eye, make impossibilities possible, heal or raise the blind, leprous, and dead, and call non-existence into life. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 12581-12672 | high | The listener is urged to put aside a little from daily food and drink, sleep little, seek pardon in the mornings, and show signs of life like babes in the womb. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 12581-12672 | medium | Sleep bears the person without burden and is described as a foretaste of the saints' rapt state on arriving home. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 13681-13788 | high | At night hidden stars appear; God restores the dead, who stand before Him, dance, praise, shed mortal remains, ride on angel-wings, and move from nullity to entity on judgment day. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 14098-14187 | medium | Increase grows out of decrease; the martyr gains eternal life through apparent death; harvest corn is cut for bread; beasts slaughtered under wisdom's law nurture human life, while human slaughter brings woes. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 14189-14300 | high | God is described as the one who can bind fractures, reunite broken parts, tear and mend cloth, disturb and better arrange a house, destroy a creature, and create thousands. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 14189-14300 | medium | The passage returns to ‘Alī and his destined foe; ‘Alī says his murderer is before his eyes, he feels no anger, and death and resurrection are welcome to him. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 14302-14405 | high | “Death to appearance, life is”; death is outward loss and inward gain; a child in the womb must blossom in the world; God forbids casting lives away. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 14765-14911 | medium | Sleep is called Death's brother; the Seven Sleepers are cited from Qur'an xviii. 8-25; Abu-Bekr is Muhammad's Cave-Mate during the Emigration, when they concealed themselves in a cave and Muhammad said God was third in the party. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15261-15423 | high | Israfil is the angel who will blow the last trumpet twice: first all living die, then the dead rise to be judged; his voice is most musical among the angels. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 2685-2821 | high | Jelāl commands the dead flute-player Hamza to arise; Hamza rises and plays flute for a three-day religious festival, over a hundred Roman misbelievers convert, and life departs from the corpse when Jelāl leaves. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 3767-3892 | high | With his last breath Jelāl tells Husāmu-’d-Dīn to lay him in the upper part of his tomb so he may be first to rise at the last day. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV.; lines 4279-4412 | low | The passage reports that Shemsu-’d-Dīn’s body disappeared and that he was buried by the side of Jelāl’s father, Sultan Bahā Veled the Elder. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI.; lines 4640-4767 | high | Husām’s gardener Sheykh Muhammed leaves after a reprimand, falls asleep, and dreams that Jelāl arrives with an executioner holding an axe and orders his beheading for offending Husām. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | SELECTED ANECDOTES / FROM THE WORK ENTITLED / THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I.; lines 593-714 | medium | “I and all my disciples will be under the protection of the Great Master, my father, on the day of resurrection.” | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 7356-7472 | medium | In Jesus’s hand, warmed with his breath, clay rises as living birds; sincere praise is also described as vivified breath ascending to heaven. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 8978-9093 | medium | One bird of the flock trembles, falls to the earth, and seems breathless; the merchant regrets delivering the message and says he has killed a related bird. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 9611-9718 | high | A drop lost in air or soil remains under divine providence; God can summon nonentity to new entity, separate what combines, and bring fresh creations from naught. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 9769-9874 | high | A minstrel in the days of ‘Umer enchants gatherings; his voice is likened to Isrāfīl's judgment-day trumpet that wakes the dead. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 9876-9981 | high | “One breathing came and found you... To all who sought, new life it gave... Your souls it found all corpses. Life it made return.” | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 9983-10088 | high | Mustafà goes to a burial ground for a friend's funeral, helps fill in the grave, and the act is described as planting a living seed; burial-ground trees are emblems with prayerlike boughs and speaking leaves and twigs. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11208-11323 | medium | The Colchian severs the parent's throat together with his words and plunges the mangled body into the boiling cauldron. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11350-11455 | medium | The explanation says interpretations of Æson's restitution to youth vary: some propose transfusion of youthful blood; another view says Medea knew plant virtues from her mother and gave Æson a potion that renewed his spirits and strength. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8420-8517 | medium | The Palici are two brothers, sons of Jupiter and Thalea; their name is linked with coming again to life; Thalea prayed for the earth to hide her from Juno, and the Palici later burst from the ground in Sicily. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9996-10069 | medium | Pelops’s shoulder had once been flesh; the gods later rejoined the limbs cut apart by his father, found one shoulder part missing, inserted ivory, and made him entire. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12474-12561 | high | The Phoenix lives on aromatics, builds a nest in holm-oak or palm with spices, dies in odors, is reproduced from the parent body, and later carries the nest and parent sepulchre to Hyperion’s temple. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12858-12942 | medium | The fable summary states: Egeria changes into a fountain; Hippolytus dies after his horses fear a sea-monster and becomes Virbius; Tages rises from earth; Romulus's lance becomes a cornel-tree; Cippus becomes horned and chooses exile. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12944-13014 | high | Hippolytus is hurled from the chariot, dragged, torn apart, and becomes one continuous wound; he says he visited lightless realms and bathed in the waves of Phlegethon. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 13198-13289 | high | The Troezenians honor Hippolytus with a temple, priest, and yearly sacrifices; young women cut hair before marriage and bring it to his temple; he is said to become Auriga; later authors say Aesculapius restores him to life and he appears in Italy as Virbius. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2475-2572 | high | “whatever was liable to be destroyed by flame, Mulciber consumed; and the figure of Hercules remained, not to be recognized” and he retained “only the traces of immortal Jupiter.” | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2843-2927 | medium | Acastus captures Admetus; Alcestis offers herself as ransom; Hercules rescues Alcestis from Acastus and returns her to Admetus, said to underlie the fable of recovering her from the Infernal Regions after vanquishing death. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | THE METAMORPHOSES. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 297-312 | medium | Hymenaeus attends nuptials and then those of Orpheus; a bad omen follows, Eurydice dies soon after, and she cannot be brought to life. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3008-3100 | medium | Iole relates these events to Alcmena, sees her brother Iolaüs restored to youth, and the poet introduces Themis’ prediction concerning Calirrhoë’s children. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3188-3238 | medium | Aurora, daughter of Pallas, complains about the aged years of her husband. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH.; lines 3955-4038 | medium | The royal consort and the ruler of the infernal regions cannot deny Orpheus and call for Eurydice, who is among the newly arrived shades and advances slowly because of her wound. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5635-5712 | high | Astarte caused Byblos and Syria to mourn and established annual feasts; the Syrians mourned for several days and then rejoiced as though Adonis had been raised from the dead at a second festival called 'The Return.' | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9545-9638 | high | "then from the virgin embers, lest the race should fail, twin youths arising, whom Fame calls 'Coronæ,' and for their mothers' ashes leading the {funeral} procession." | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER V / CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII; lines 2040-2134 | medium | Disciples deny Hallaj's death, believe a resembling person died in his place, expect him after forty days, and some claim to meet him on the road to Nahrawan. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X; lines 2867-2943 | high | The body is the tattered vest of the soul, destroyed by death and not mended until resurrection; the soul is in heaven enjoying all knowledge. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | ANECDOTE OF BAYAZID BASTAMI. / CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI; lines 4243-4353 | medium | The passage says a granite-like heart remains barren until grace intervenes; the fresh breath of Jesus makes the heart live, breathe, and blossom. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | APPENDIX II / APPENDIX III / APPENDIX IV / CHRIST IN MODAMMEDAN TRADITION.; lines 5703-5827 | high | At resurrection God says humans failed to visit Him when sick, then says He would have been found with a sick servant. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | III.--THE LOVE OF GOD AND ECSTASY / CHAPTER II / CHAPTER III / RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI; lines 921-1016 | high | Rabia prays that only uncertainty about God’s satisfaction grieves her; a voice promises her a Resurrection rank envied by the nearest angels. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | CHAPTER IV / DIVINE LOVE / CHAPTER V / SAINTS AND MIRACLES; lines 3273-3377 | high | Khurqānī says he will stand at the Resurrection and lead people into Paradise; he also says Paradise seeks him, Hell fears him, and both would be annihilated in him with their inhabitants. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | CHAPTER IV / DIVINE LOVE / CHAPTER V / SAINTS AND MIRACLES; lines 3379-3472 | medium | The aspirant must “daily die a thousand deaths and come to life again” to win immortal life. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA). / MINERVA. / THEMIS. / VESTA.; lines 1776-1867 | medium | The passage says a later meaning involved immortality of the soul, symbolized by grain dead in the dark earth and rising again in a newer form. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2441-2527 | high | Asclepius, Coronis' son and later god of medicine, can cure sickness and restore the dead; Aides complains to Zeus that fewer shades arrive, and Zeus kills Asclepius with a thunderbolt. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2441-2527 | high | Heracles arrives at Admetus' palace, learns of Alcestis' death, descends into the tomb, and holds Death until he promises to restore Alcestis to her family. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | FAUNUS. / THE SATYRS. / PRIAPUS. / ASCLEPIAS (AESCULAPIUS).; lines 5661-5710 | high | Asclepias discovers cures, perfects healing so that he wards off death and restores the dead to life, and is popularly believed to be aided by Medusa's blood given by Pallas-Athene. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 8170-8264 | medium | Heracles wanders seeking purification for Iphitus's murder and reaches Admetus's palace, where he restores Alcestis after a struggle with Death. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 | high | Vali and Vidar return to Ida; Modi and Magni, Thor's sons, bring Thor's sacred hammer rescued from the destruction. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1440-1580 | low | Odin disguises himself as a Wanderer named Gangrad; he and Vafthrudnir exchange questions about cosmic and divine matters, and Vafthrudnir recognizes Odin when asked what Allfather whispered to Balder on the funeral pyre. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA; lines 2362-2458 | high | Eástre/Ostara is described as a spring goddess identified with Frigga; her feast preserves customs of coloured eggs, flower-crowned Easter-stones, dancing, and bonfires. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR; lines 2733-2850 | high | The peasant host is hospitable but poor. Thor slays both goats, cooks them, invites the household to eat, and warns everyone to put all the bones unbroken into the goat skins on the floor. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR / CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI; lines 3819-3966 | medium | Bragi, child of Odin and Gunlod, is born in the cave; dwarfs give him a magical golden harp and send him out on a vessel; after showing no signs of life, he sits up and sings the song of life while his song reaches heaven and Hel’s realm. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR; lines 5896-6019 | high | Vidar is surnamed 'the silent,' linked with forests and Nature, destined to survive the gods' destruction and rule a regenerated earth; his home Landvidi is in a silent primeval forest. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7325-7472 | medium | Odin reaches the Vala's resting place, chants a magic spell, traces runes that raise the dead, and the tomb opens as the prophetess rises. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7824-7975 | high | Hermod petitions Hel for Balder's release; Hel says Balder may depart if all animate and inanimate things show sorrow by shedding tears. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9430-9545 | high | In wolfish passion Sigmund and Sinfiotli fight, and Sinfiotli dies. Sigmund sees a weasel revive another with a leaf; a raven drops a similar leaf at Sigmund’s feet, which he interprets as divine help, and he uses it to restore Sinfiotli to life. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jámí | SELF DIES IN LOVE / THE FREEING OF ZULAIKHA'S SOUL / BREAKING THE IDOL / ZULAIKHA'S YOUTH RETURNS; lines 1658-1669 | medium | “The beauty returned which was ruined and dead” and her cheek regains splendour. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jámí | SELF-SACRIFICE / GALLANTRY AND HUMOUR / FIFTH GARDEN / A LOVERS' DIALOGUE; lines 1973-2010 | high | The youth cites God the Most High: on the day of resurrection intimate friends will become enemies except the pious. He says he does not want their love impaired or their friendship turned into enmity. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | THE FINDING OF THE BELOVED / GOD ONLY / THE MOON-SOUL AND THE SEA / LIFE IN DEATH; lines 1162-1177 | high | The speaker says not to say farewell at the grave, because the grave is a curtain hiding Paradise's communion; after descent, consider resurrection. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | ASPIRATION / THE JOURNEY TO THE BELOVED / THE DAY OF RESURRECTION / THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED; lines 1266-1293 | high | The section titled “THE DAY OF RESURRECTION” describes clamour, candles and torches, the world giving birth to the World Everlasting, the addressee becoming spirit and wise, and a guiding figure leading and drawing the addressee onward. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | SPIRIT GREATER THAN FORM / WHERE LOVE IS / THE LOVE OF THE BELOVED / THE LOVE OF THE SOUL AND THE LOVE OF THE BODY; lines 1697-1736 | medium | The speaker addresses Love as the Israfil of the resurrection-day of Love and asks that Love’s first boon be to lend an ear to his prayers and speech. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | SAINT AND HYPOCRITE / HARSHNESS AND ADORATION / THE DIVINE ABSORPTION / LOVE MORE THAN SORROW AND JOY; lines 2102-2146 | high | The harper’s heart is emancipated; he is freed from weeping and rejoicing, his old life dies, and he is regenerated. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | INTRODUCTION / V. ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGION OF LOVE / I. LIFE / II. SHAMSI TABRIZ; lines 763-842 | low | The passage says the stories can scarcely be credited; it reports traditions that Rúmí spoke to frogs and fishes, raised the dead, and lost his temper, then compares him to Buddha as a teacher burdened by fabulous later tales. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 1011-1075 | medium | A quoted love image describes an opened grave, smoke rising from it, fire still burning in the dead heart, and the winding-sheet set alight. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ; lines 1691-1831 | high | The speaker asks to be washed and covered with Love's wine; a living flame burns in his heart and pierces Death's impenetrable door. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXXVI / XXXVII / XXXVIII / XXXIX; lines 2760-2889 | high | Spring flowers have risen from dust; the speaker asks why the addressee lies beneath dust and promises tears on the grave until the addressee rises. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXXVII / XXXVIII / XXXIX / XLIII; lines 2892-2916 | high | “Where are the tidings of union? ... Forth from the dust I will rise up to welcome thee!” | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXXVII / XXXVIII / XXXIX / XLIII; lines 2892-2916 | medium | The speaker asks the Lord for “rain of a mercy that quickeneth on my grave” before being like dust carried by wind beyond human knowledge. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XLIII / NOTES / XVIII / XXIII; lines 3553-3644 | high | Shah Shudja, jealous of Hafiz and hostile because of Hafiz's connection to Abu Ishac, accuses Hafiz of denying the Resurrection and cites him before the Ulema as an infidel. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 745-790 | medium | The passage says Sufis find bodily resurrection difficult because a soul united with God would have to return to the body, described as the prison escaped at death. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXIX. The Forest. / BOOK III. / Canto I. The Hermitage. / Canto V. Sarabhanga.; lines 26707-26883 | high | Śarabhanga prepares the fire, makes oil offerings, lays his body in it, is consumed, emerges transformed as a radiant youth, ascends beyond the homes of saints and gods, reaches Brahmá’s sphere, and is welcomed by Brahmá. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat. / Canto LX. Lakshman Reproved. / Canto LXX. Kabandha.; lines 36583-36740 | medium | After showing the grove, Savari asks Rama to let her cast away her mortal shell and dwell with the saints she had served. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLII. The Sally. / Canto XLIII. The Single Combats. / Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell.; lines 52409-52579 | medium | Garuḍ touches the brothers' faces with his wing, allays pain, closes wounds, restores their golden skin, memory, mental power, spirit, zeal, and strength, and they stand firm. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLII. The Sally. / Canto XLIII. The Single Combats. / Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell.; lines 52409-52579 | medium | Susheṇ recalls a battle of gods and fiends in which Vṛihaspati cured wounded heavenly warriors with herbs and spells and restored life, sense, and vigour. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell. / Canto LX. Kumbhakarna Roused. / Canto LXXIV. The Medicinal Herbs.; lines 54549-54683 | high | Four plants on the mountain crest are described as having powers to draw out shafts, restore the breath of life to the slain, heal wounds, and restore the cheeks’ former hue. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LX. Kumbhakarna Roused. / Canto LXXIV. The Medicinal Herbs. / Canto LXXV. The Night Attack. / Canto CII. Lakshman Healed.; lines 55124-55282 | medium | Susheṇ tells Rama that Lakshman is not dead and instructs Hanuman to fetch life-, health-, and strength-giving herbs from Mahodaya peak. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CII. Lakshman Healed. / Canto CVI. Glory To The Sun. / Canto CVIII. The Battle. / Canto CIX. The Battle.; lines 55400-55568 | medium | Ráma’s arrows sever Rávaṇ’s heads; whenever one falls, another grows, and even after a hundred fall Rávaṇ shows no sign of weakening. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated. / Canto CXVI. The Meeting. / Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu. / Canto CXXI. Dasaratha.; lines 56234-56393 | high | Ráma asks Indra to restore the dead Vánars, whose blood was shed for him, recalling them from Yáma’s hall to life and strength. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 65549-65703 | high | Vedavati, daughter of King Kusadhwaja, becomes an ascetic; after Ravan insults her, she enters fire and is later born again as Sita to destroy him. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLI. Kapil. / Canto XLV. The Quest Of The Amrit. / Canto XLVII. Sumati. / Canto L. Janak.; lines 6653-6822 | medium | Visvamitra tells Janak that the youths are sons of Dasaratha, accompanied him, dwelt in the hermitage, killed demons, saw Ahalya freed, met her husband, and came to learn the famous bow's virtue. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | CONTENTS / INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8); lines 993-1155 | high | Gods and heavenly saints honor Ráma; by Heaven’s grace he raises slain chieftains to life and flies through the clouds in a magic chariot to Nandigráma. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 1689-1772 | low | A story attributed to Pindar says Asclepius was slain by a thunderbolt for restoring a rich man to life; the passage calls this a lie and says either he did not take bribes or was not the son of a god. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24305-24376 | high | Er son of Armenius, a Pamphylian, is introduced as a hero who was slain in battle. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24483-24572 | medium | The reporting messenger is hindered from drinking the water and cannot tell how he returned to the body; in the morning he wakes suddenly lying on the pyre. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5706-5773 | medium | The story of Er is introduced: Er, son of Armenius, is thought killed in battle, remains uncorrupted, is placed on a funeral pyre on the twelfth day, revives, and reports what he saw below. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 8152-8239 | high | Augustine is attracted to Plato, links the Timaeus with Genesis and Plato’s phrase about the philosopher as lover of God with Exodus, discusses miracles, and sees nature and the human frame as foretaste of heavenly state and bodily resurrection. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 1007-1137 | high | The addressee is free, accepted of the gods, raised by the Master's hands, and exalted from the dead; the Master rises from the east, sits at high twelve, surveys the quarters, writes on the trestle-board guarded by Four Regents, crosses a mystic line, and seeks repose in an endless day/night. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 1466-1627 | medium | The vine puts forth leaves, grapes sweeten with sun, human life ripens with years, the dead are shrouded in leaves from the tree of life, and a better grape for wine is expected. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 387-551 | high | The reviving herb is called the future state; the ruby is set in virgin gold; those who know the fountain head of divine light have stood face to face with God and are free from the bonds of death. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 712-872 | high | Another wine is drawn into the cup of immortality, ruby red and resurrected from the dead, from the vine of vines; those who drink meet eternal bliss; the note compares grapes passing through the press to humans passing through earthly experience to accept the spiritual. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 10132-10368 | high | Poor pilgrims wish for a place of rest from pain and after many thousand wintry years to renew life like flowers and bloom again. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12711-12911 | high | Spring ornaments the world with verdure; buds appear like Moses' hand, plants spring from earth as if by Jesus' breath, and clouds open their eyes and weep. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | LXXXV. / LXXXVI. / LXXXVII. / LXXXVIII.; lines 4075-4098 | high | C. 159 says resurrection will bring much searching, that an excellent Friend will be hasty, that only good comes from Unalloyed Goodness, and that the outcome will be all right. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | LXXXVI. / LXXXVII. / LXXXVIII. / LXXXIX.; lines 4101-4172 | high | A speaker says its clay is dry with long oblivion and might recover if filled with the old familiar juice. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | LXXXVI. / LXXXVII. / LXXXVIII. / LXXXIX.; lines 4101-4172 | high | The speaker asks for the grape to provide for fading life, the dead body to be washed, the body to be shrouded in living leaf, and burial near a frequented garden-side. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | XCII. / XCIII. / XCIV. / XCVI.; lines 4247-4305 | medium | The source rendering wishes for a place of repose or an end of the road, and hopes that after a hundred thousand years all might blossom again like verdure from the heart of earth. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / TRANSLATED BY / E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION; lines 5440-5520 | medium | Hammer's comparison of Omar to Voltaire is discussed; Omar is said to share Voltaire's flippancy and irreverence, especially in treating bodily resurrection, and to value kindness and charity. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 5796-6031 | medium | Death’s terrors are called baseless; death yields the tree of immortality; since 'Isa breathed new life into the soul, eternal death has no claim. The note identifies the Sufi doctrine of Baka ba'd ul fana. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 6709-6927 | high | Spring showers the land; "'Isa's breath wakes the dead earth to life," and trees are white like Musa's hand; the note identifies allusions to Jesus and Moses. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 7161-7399 | medium | Before mortal pain, the speaker urges draining rosy grape-juice from the wine-cup, since the person is not gold that friends will dig up from earth again. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 7624-7841 | medium | Earth's bowers are green; trees grow white with flowers like Musa's hand; plants revive as at 'Isa's breath; clouds brim with showers. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 7843-8069 | medium | “From love to Thee I now lay down my life, / In hope Thy love will raise me up again.” | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | OMAR KHAYYAM / ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA / EDWARD FITZGERALD. / THE FITZGERALD FIRST EDITION; lines 968-1032 | medium | New Year revives old desires; the thoughtful soul retires to solitude; the White Hand of Moses appears on the bough and Jesus sighs from the ground. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION.; lines 64-148 | high | Alcestis is presented as a true love who dared to die for her husband and was allowed to return from the dead as recompense for virtue. | record |