In 1374, the prior general of the order declared the members of these groups to be members of "their association" and permitted them to take part in the spiritual merit of the order.

Anyone who can kill a walking blasphemy like me gains great spiritual merit, I understand.

However, the wearing of two head coverings is considered to add additional spiritual merit, plus the presence of beautiful craftsmanhip adds beautification and honor to the custom.

Market stalls offer gifts that people give to monks to gain spiritual merits.

Farmers kept the fish until Songkran, when they were released into canals to gain spiritual merit, an essential element of a Thai festival.

At Sanchi and most other stupas the local population donated money for the embellishment of the stupa to attain spiritual merit.

"According to the teaching of the revealed texts, the Chudakarman (tonsure) must be performed, for the sake of spiritual merit, by all twice-born men in the first or third year."

Specifically, in the context of an Islamic worldview, sawab refers to spiritual merit or reward that accrues from the performance of good deeds and piety.

Can it be that they have found something of artistic and spiritual merit in the European music on which they now concentrate - without losing sight of the values inherent in their own musical cultures?

When Kanhopatra first saw the Vithoba image of Pandharpur, she sang in an abhanga that her spiritual merit was fulfilled and she was blessed to have seen Vithoba's feet.