Piety

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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Topic

Martyrdom Religious observance Piety Religion

Author

Jorge Luis Borges

Source

Deutsches Requiem El Aleph

Medium

Short story

Language

Spanish

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." Sur, Feb. 1946.

Current Citation

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." The Aleph and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Hurley. Penguin Classics, 2004.

True piety is this:
to believe in God, and the Last Day,
the angels, the Book, and the Prophets,
to give of one's substance, however cherished,
to kinsmen, and orphans,
the needy, the traveler, beggars,
and to ransom the slave,
to perform the prayer, to pay the alms.

Muhammad

The Quran

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Topic

Piety Islam

Speaker

Muhammad

Source

The Quran

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

Arabic

Time

632 630s 7th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

The Quran. c. 630, 2:177.

Current Citation

The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 2.