The explanations must be adapted to the capacity of the
hearers and suited to the exigency of the time. Beauty of style, moderation in
delivery and suitability of words and meanings are necessary. It is not only a
matter of uttering words. In ‘Akká, Mírzá Muhammad-‘Alí would hear me speak and
would repeat my words exactly on other occasions but he did not understand that
a thousand wisdoms and ingredients other than speech are necessary. In the days
of Baghdád and Sulaymáníyyih, Shaykh ‘Abdu'l-Husayn was
told that the Blessed Beauty was attracting the Kurds to Himself by quoting
Súfí and gnostic terms. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, from an address, August 3, 1912, Dublin,
USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
