Friday, October 26, 2012

Attribute of perfection

The first attribute of perfection is learning and the cultural attainments of the mind... 
The second attribute of perfection is justice and impartiality... 
The third requirement of perfection is to arise with complete sincerity and purity of purpose to educate the masses: to exert the utmost effort to instruct them in the various branches of learning and useful sciences, to encourage the development of modern progress, to widen the scope of commerce, industry and the arts, to further such measures as will increase the people’s wealth. ...
Other attributes of perfection are to fear God, to love God by loving His servants, to exercise mildness and forbearance and calm, to be sincere, amenable, clement and compassionate; to have resolution and courage, trustworthiness and energy, to strive and struggle, to be generous, loyal, without malice, to have zeal and a sense of honor, to be high-minded and magnanimous, and to have regard for the rights of others. Whoever is lacking in these excellent human qualities is defective. If We were to explain the inner meanings of each one of these attributes, “the poem would take up seventy maunds* of paper.”


 'Abdu'l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization,

2 comments:

  1. Well assuming everything else in the article is sound and rational, whole the issue right faile in here: "The second attribute of perfection is justice and impartiality...", it was never going to happen, why, because it effects interests!

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  2. You are right ..... in your case, it will never work.
    But thanks God all are not like you.

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