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 [1] of paper."
- ‘Abdu'l-Baha (The Secret of Divine Civilization)
[1] A measure
of weight, in Tihran equivalent to six and two-thirds pounds.
